I cannot resist cemeteries. This image was taken in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, located near Howard, NY. Rural community burial grounds are for the most part quite modest in design and type of grave markers. But as often as not, there is something deep and personal left in tribute to someone who passed. In its own way, it is as remarkable as the grand monuments to death found in the Rural Garden cemeteries of the cities. This one marks the grave of Robert Coots, who obviously loved deer hunting. That fact is also reflected on the obverse of the marker.
Fujifilm X-T5; NIKKOR AF-S DX 18-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR
The image Fuji RAF file was preprocessed in Capture One 23 with an export to monochrome as a PSD file. Several new layers were created in Photoshop for adjustment and the painting of tones.
This has not been printed yet, and I think that I will tinker with it a "wee bit" to get there!
