Tim finds me here me at work in a favored place, indeed. I am fascinated by the past, and how people, in their grief, create funerary monuments to remember their loved ones. Tim devotes most of this image to my surroundings, a vast cemetery in Jacksonville, Oregon. There is a sense of tranquility here. Symbolically, Tim portrays me as “pausing along the road of life” amidst reminders of those who have already traveled that path. Tim also makes sure to feature the dead leaves that litter its length. He also contrasts my size, as well as the small scale of the gravestones, to the massive arch of living trees that fill the frame overhead. Tim and I are shooting together at the same time and in the same place. Yet he is telling a different story than I am with the image I am making at this moment. The grave marker before me is white, while those that surround it are gray. By using my spot meter, I make the gray stones, shrouded in shadow, much darker. You can see my image, and the sad story it tells, here: http://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/114571835/original