2 years, 7 months, 16 days

Nice work on your continuing Halloween theme :-)

Sad that the apparent twins (if I read this  right) died so young, wonder what the COD was.

An excellent capture, I am always fascinated by Gravestones. There was once a small Cemetary that I imagine was for this one particular family near where we last lived. It was on their property out in the country. There were quite a few very young members of the family that had died around this same time period. In 1870 Typhoid Fever made it's appearance in New York and it soon made it's perilous journey across North America. The colour in this image really accentuates the 'sadness' even I feel when I view a Tombstone where a young child has died. Times must have been quite harsh back then. Well done!

Steve S., Gail, and Steve V., thanks for your comments.  Gail, there is much history in cemeteries, and the stories of "hardships" among the western pioneers that we learned in grade school is really brought home in places like this.  Steve V., any interest in death is morbid only if one considers death itself to be morbid, or if that's the only interest a person has while living.  I don't consider death to be morbid, and my portfolio speaks for my interest in landscapes and the natural world.

I'm also fascinated by cemeteries and visit them whenever I get the chance.  It's the small private cemeteries I find most interesting, although I visited a glorious cemetery in Vienna where many famous composers were buried.  The thing that strikes me about this is how well preserved the engraving is on the tombstone.  Remarkable really.  I like the diagonal placement in the frame, as well as the shadows of grasses and the toning. This isn't B&W, is it?  What do you call this?

Christal, it's a toned B&W.  I use Nik Silver Efex Pro II, and it allows for a number of different tones.  This headstone is lying on the ground, and the sun is very close to setting, so the composition was just based on what I thought looked good at the time (and that was affected by the grasses and weeds more than anything else).