My Purple Period by bmac62
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Tara and I both hiked at least a mile through an old cemetery to get here. It probably wasn't a mile but it felt like more. We then photographed the daylights out of this unusual place. In an attempt to show you something different, here is the McMillin Family Mausoleum on San Juan Island, Washington State using the Topaz filter, "Ametrine".
The columns were constructed to be the same size as those in King Solomon's temple. The broken column in the back symbolizes the broken column of life - that man dies before his work is complete. The family head, John McMillin, didn't get to finish his mausoleum by the time he died at age 81 in 1936. Soon after he died, his son Paul cancelled the order for the copper dome roof. It had a price tag of $20,000 ($357,281 in 2018).
Comments (11)
wysiwig
Nice work. Purple Period - you and Picasso (Blue Period) - although unlike Picasso I can understand what you are showing us. On Jewish tombstones a broken branch symbolizes the same thing as the broken column here. In keeping with the biblical theme, young McMillin seems to have forgotten the fifth commandment, Honor your father and your mother.
bmac62
The reason given at the time the roof order was cancelled was that the family business did not have the money to pay the bill.
RodS Online Now!
This really gives it an otherworldly feel, Bill! I really love this treatment. It almost has a feel of discovering an ancient structure on another world. I like your purple period!
kgb224
Superb capture and post work Bill. God bless.
auntietk
Ninety percent of using this filter is knowing WHEN to use it, and you've certainly got that figured out! This is just spectacular. Terrific choice!
anahata.c
hear hear, Tara---great use of that filter. (And yeah, I imagine knowing when and how to use those filters is the art in a nutshell. Tara and Andrea are great at it, as is Helle when she uses them. And now you join the list.) I looked up Ametrine, and it's apparently in the quartz family, and has amethyst in it, thus its purple hue. Boy do you do beautiful work with this hue. This has a very graphic feel, and the way you've segmented the trees and leaves is like you pasted them on, panel by panel, like wallpapers. Gorgeous verticals. And the light inside of that mausoleum top---the circling pedestal atop the columns---is beautiful too. As is the yellow scattered about---very bright. Great job, Bill. Maybe it's a shame that they couldn't afford the copper dome, but the open top has a power all its own. Dynamite image, my friend.
Kordouane
Beautiful and interesting photography !!
Scheisseherzen
awesome
durleybeachbum
Fabuloso, Bill ! A triumph of postwork ! I am ambivalent about the way that some folk seem obsessed by being remembered after death. Maybe I agree with the son's decision....
jendellas
Very interesting & loving the purple mood.
Richardphotos
outstanding results Bill. I like visiting graveyards also to see the old graves
Faemike55
interesting design and concept - love your postwork on this scene