{"id":13947,"date":"2022-06-08T20:48:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/?p=13947"},"modified":"2022-06-08T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:56:44","slug":"cemetery-trees-the-forgotten-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/archives\/13947","title":{"rendered":"Cemetery Trees – the forgotten project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Whilst we were under periods of looser Covid restriction during 2020 and 2021 I had a project photographing the local cemeteries near where I live in Edinburgh. It was an opportunity to make many test exposures as I honed my emulsion making skills. But somehow the project petered out. I was using my Wista 45D camera with 4″x5″ plates. I then scanned them and inkjet printed on various kind of paper. There was something unsatisfactory about the hybrid workflow and I moved to making larger plates and printing them on salted paper or with argyrotype. Of course Covid also became less of an issue so we were free to go further a field. That’s not to say I won’t revisit this way of working in the future. But I totally forgot to share anything from the project outside an Adobe Lightroom gallery<\/a>. Here are a few of the photos from that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I used hand cut and coated 4″x5″ glass plates. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Perhaps my favourite tree and one of the first I photographed. Grange Cemetery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The trigger for me was to concentrate on the trees and let the gravestones look after themselves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Grange Cemetery is only a few yards from my house and so was the main destination.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Juxtaposition at Dene Cemetery. I visited in mid winter and must go back again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Grange Cemetery surrounds Marchmont St Giles (not to be confused with St Giles cathedral) so feels like a graveyard but it is very much a commercial Victorian cemetery like many others.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Newington Cemetery has a very different atmosphere and is quite overgrown in parts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A few of the prints have mad it into IKEA frames and onto the walls of the flat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Whilst we were under periods of looser Covid restriction during 2020 and 2021 I had a project photographing the local cemeteries near where I live in Edinburgh. It was an opportunity to make many test exposures as I honed my emulsion making skills. But somehow the project petered out. I…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13961,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13947\/revisions\/13961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}