Fan Ephemera
Pentax 67
105mm f2.4
Adox CMS II
ISO 20
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
b. August 8, 1896
d. December 14, 1953
Novelist, "Cross Creek" and "The Yearling."
The alligator toy, notes, pens, and fawn statue are all pieces of ephemera added to the gravesite by fans of the writer.
Rawlings was actually supposed to be buried in the Citra Cemetery, south of Island Grove. Incorrect instructions were given to the funeral director at the time of her death, so she was buried in Antioch Cemetery in Island Grove instead. Ironically this is where the Cason family had plots. Zelma Cason had famously filed a $100,000 lawsuit for libel and invasion of privacy against Rawlings for the manner in which the author had portrayed Cason in the novel "Cross Creek." The lawsuit caused both women great anguish and reportedly neither one ever got over it. In death, their burial sites ended up only 50 feet from each other.
This was my first roll of Adox CMS 20 II. Although metered correctly, the contrast is extreme - with detail lost in dark shadows and bright highlights. Partly due to shooting in bright sun, partly due to finding out after the fact that it needed special processing that it didn't get...
Fan Ephemera
Pentax 67
105mm f2.4
Adox CMS II
ISO 20
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
b. August 8, 1896
d. December 14, 1953
Novelist, "Cross Creek" and "The Yearling."
The alligator toy, notes, pens, and fawn statue are all pieces of ephemera added to the gravesite by fans of the writer.
Rawlings was actually supposed to be buried in the Citra Cemetery, south of Island Grove. Incorrect instructions were given to the funeral director at the time of her death, so she was buried in Antioch Cemetery in Island Grove instead. Ironically this is where the Cason family had plots. Zelma Cason had famously filed a $100,000 lawsuit for libel and invasion of privacy against Rawlings for the manner in which the author had portrayed Cason in the novel "Cross Creek." The lawsuit caused both women great anguish and reportedly neither one ever got over it. In death, their burial sites ended up only 50 feet from each other.
This was my first roll of Adox CMS 20 II. Although metered correctly, the contrast is extreme - with detail lost in dark shadows and bright highlights. Partly due to shooting in bright sun, partly due to finding out after the fact that it needed special processing that it didn't get...