Green-Wood Cemetery Brooklyn, NY

This morning I sat down at my computer to finally write my post for Photo-Essay's theme yellow but

Surprise!

Time's up already. I missed the deadline which was Friday night. Remember! Always Friday night.

Alright, that leaves two options. Either post something yellow anyhow or move on to the next week, this week, whatever. Well, I'm not opposed to posting anyway, however, since I had only taken very few photos last week and even fewer that fit the yellow theme... I decided to move on to this week's topic of

Green

And I am going to take it a step further. Since this community is called #photo-essay I wanted to have a theme within the theme. You might not immediately see my chosen sub-theme from the first photo, or do you?

Here, I'll give you another photo. Isn't that some beautiful architecture and art right there? Not the theme though. My sub-theme is

Doors

Actually, more specifically mausoleum doors. Yeah, I guess I cheated a little again - please expect that from me for these weekly color themes - because I took these photos a while back. These were taken during my niece's visit from Germany on a beautiful sunny but cold December day.

We strolled around Green-Wood Cemetery for hours, left and right, up and down. This place is huge and quite old. It was founded in 1838, so even by US standards there are a lot of older graveyards than Green-Wood around the country.

Still, I find Green-Wood Cemetery really beautiful. Personally, I like walking around cemeteries (at least during daylight - LOL) and marveling at the architecture and art that decorates older graves, as well as reading the inscriptions and imagining what people's life might have been like.

But this post is solely about the doors I photographed on this particular day. The following photos put the emphasis directly on the subject by means of a tilt-shift lens, my Lensbaby.

You will see there is a very small line of in-focus across each one of the photos while the rest of the photo shows a nice soft blur leading the viewer's eye to the door or its detail.

I especially like how the vertical in-focus edge worked on this photo since it put both the statue on top of the mausoleum as well as the very intricate green metal door into the viewer's focus.

What do you think about selective focus like this? It is very much the opposite of photos taken with our phones. Photos that are in focus through and through. Don't get me wrong, I love a perfect photo as much as anyone but sometimes - they get boring. And that's when I want my Lensbaby.

Recently, I sold all my digital camera equipment (for now I still got my 80s film cameras) and got myself a new, smaller mirrorless camera. I haven't posted about it yet, I'm still getting used to it, there's just not enough time in a day.

But the more I look at these photos and my journey to embrace imperfection (I have been a perfectionist all my life...) I think I will need to get a Lensbaby for my new camera. Anyone out there want a used Lensbaby with a Nikon mount? I haven't sold that one yet.

Let me know your thoughts about creative photography in general or tilt-shift lenses like the Lensbaby in particular if you like. Do you own one? I'd love to hear about it.

Have a great rest of your day!

Cheers,
(Ocean)Bee

p.s. all photos were taken with either a Nikon D800 or an iPhone - I leave it up to you to figure out which one (it's pretty easy in this post)

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