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Diego Pigozzo

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Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« on: January 01, 2016, 06:27:26 pm »

Three shot taken some time ago at the Verona's Monumentary Cemetary
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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2016, 05:10:43 am »

All three are very nice. I feel you've captured the drama very well and they work well in black and white. Credit must also go to those talented stone masons.! Well done , I enjoy your posts.
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2016, 09:24:04 am »

All three are very nice. I feel you've captured the drama very well and they work well in black and white. Credit must also go to those talented stone masons.! Well done , I enjoy your posts.
I agree.
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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2016, 03:11:21 pm »

All three are very nice. I feel you've captured the drama very well and they work well in black and white. Credit must also go to those talented stone masons.! Well done , I enjoy your posts.

I agree.

Thanks to both, yet even if I like the images I have to say that they are an almost complete failure because they don't convey in any way what I felt visiting the place.
And, to be honest, I'm still wondering how to shot the place the way I want.

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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2016, 06:08:43 pm »

IMHO, the second and third are the most successful, perhaps because of the isolated subject. I like the B/W rendering, too.
Thanks to both, yet even if I like the images I have to say that they are an almost complete failure because they don't convey in any way what I felt visiting the place.
And, to be honest, I'm still wondering how to shot the place the way I want.
Keep shooting ;) Despite how it sounds, it's a serious comment. You'll find it if you persist. Good luck.

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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2016, 10:19:49 pm »

Thanks to both, yet even if I like the images I have to say that they are an almost complete failure because they don't convey in any way what I felt visiting the place.
And, to be honest, I'm still wondering how to shot the place the way I want.
I think David said it well: Keep shooting.
A while back someone asked me why I keep going back to the same place to photograph over and over again (the place is Plum Island in Massachusetts, and I like to visit the beaches there on afternoons, in the winter, on sunny days, when the tide is almost low).

This a place that has always felt magical to me, but it was several years (and many photographic failures) before I started getting some shots that began to express my feelings about the place. And along the way were some "good" photos that didn't really work for me.

Keep going: You'll get it, and I look forward to seeing your progress along the way. Good luck!

Eric
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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2016, 07:36:09 am »

IMHO, the second and third are the most successful, perhaps because of the isolated subject. I like the B/W rendering, too.Keep shooting ;) Despite how it sounds, it's a serious comment. You'll find it if you persist. Good luck.

I think David said it well: Keep shooting.
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Thanks you both.
The problem with "keep shooting" is that I have little time to shoot (sadly) and that I still trying to understand exactly what I felt in that place.

When I went there the first time, what struck me was just the beauty of the scultures and the peace of the place.
But during the visit I walk around the corner and went to the "children sector", with its rows and rows of niches of children of any age.
1906-age 7, 1903-age 4 months, 1912-age 12 and so on for hundreds of niches.

That's when I start thinking about how those people related to death: today death is a tragedy and something to subdue and control, even when is a choise (like in euthanasia).
But, for the people in the 1900s, death was a daily occurrence at any age.

Maybe, I thought, all those scultures were made not as a memento of the deceased but as a rebellion against something they cannot fight, a way to say to death "you got me but you'll never get what I've been".

And, while thinking about it, more thougths came to my mind while looking at the scultures.
Thoughts like "Was the fall from heaven a punishment of a gift? What would we be if we were immortals? Would we be making art, music, sculture if we have all the time in the universe?

So I'm still wrestling with these thougths and I'm not sure that going back without sorting some of this stuff out I would get better images.





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Re: Verona's Monumental Cemetary
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2016, 10:51:24 am »

Important thoughts and questions, Diego. Universal and worth sorting. If you keep sorting and keep on shooting, I believe you will eventually capture that image that represents the thousand words you are seeking to convey. It's all a journey. Cliche perhaps, but probably because it's true.

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« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2016, 03:21:04 pm »

Again David said it well.

The thoughts you are having say to me that you are well on the way to finding a truly important image, quite possibly in that cemetery, but perhaps elsewhere.

Good luck in the search!

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