Resting in the City of Souls
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It was drizzling when I went to the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, south of San Francisco. Colma, also called the City of Souls, is a small town with 1500 people living above ground, and 1.5 million souls residing in 16 cemeteries. Nobody was at the cemetery when I walked around with tripod and camera. This structure caught my attention - POPE is inscribed above the door, and inside are beautiful stained-glass windows.
Wondering about the inscription, I searched the internet and found that this mausoleum was built for lumber baron Andrew Jackson Pope (1820-1878.)
I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them using the balanced one for the sky, desaturated the image, added a hint of cold to the shadows and warmth to the highlights to pop the scene.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC1862_3_4_hdr3pai1bal1g
Resting in the City of Souls
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
It was drizzling when I went to the Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, south of San Francisco. Colma, also called the City of Souls, is a small town with 1500 people living above ground, and 1.5 million souls residing in 16 cemeteries. Nobody was at the cemetery when I walked around with tripod and camera. This structure caught my attention - POPE is inscribed above the door, and inside are beautiful stained-glass windows.
Wondering about the inscription, I searched the internet and found that this mausoleum was built for lumber baron Andrew Jackson Pope (1820-1878.)
I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from three RAW exposures, merged them using the balanced one for the sky, desaturated the image, added a hint of cold to the shadows and warmth to the highlights to pop the scene.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 3 RAW exposures, NEX-6, _DSC1862_3_4_hdr3pai1bal1g