Just a simple shot of a magnolia bloom on one of the many trees at the cemetery. I tried out some makeshift macros with this lens as well. I can use a little beauty right now.

Camera: Pentax 67 SLR with 55mm SMC Pentax lens using Ilford 100 Delta Pro B&W film, developed in Rodinal 1:50

Song of the day: "Warwick Avenue" by Duffy

Poem of the day:
"SLEEP sweetly in your humble graves,
Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;
Though yet no marble column craves
The pilgrim here to pause.

In seeds of laurel in the earth
The blossom of your fame is blown,
And somewhere, waiting for its birth,
The shaft is in the stone!

Meanwhile, behalf the tardy years
Which keep in trust your storied tombs,
Behold! your sisters bring their tears,
And these memorial blooms.

Small tributes! but your shades will smile
More proudly on these wreaths to-day,
Than when some cannon-moulded pile
Shall overlook this bay.

Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!
There is no holier spot of ground
Than where defeated valor lies,
By mourning beauty crowned."
- Henry Timrod, "At Magnolia Cemetery"


Posted on 02 July, 2008 (16)