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Confederate war widow, Macon, Georgia, April 2017

So, long story short - I was able to attend the Confederate Memorial Day ceremony put on by the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon, GA recently. While I was there, I was able to snag this shot of the "war widow" leaving the ceremony by herself.

 

When I took the photo, it was originally vertically oriented. I didn't have time to really get set up - I happened to look up and see her walking away and thought I'd go for it. Looking at the image after getting the film back, I thought it worked better horizontally than vertically. The bad news is that I had to crop it pretty hard to get it to look like this, so I'm pretty sure that making a decent sized print of it may be out of the question due to the lack of detail that you'd get.

 

Taken with a Minolta SRT-102 and Fuji Provia 100 slide film, processing by Dwayne's in Parsons, KS, and home scanned on an Epson V600 scanner.

 

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Uploaded on June 7, 2017