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Polyandrium

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I don’t know why it’s not in most dictionaries, but:

Polyandrium
Cemetary, originally a cemetery for the victims of great battles.

I found it while searching through an online thesaurus. The photo is of Union Hill Cemetary. I was driving back from lunch at Waffle House with Kevin, and decided to pull over and take a few pictures since I had the camera in the car with me. Turns out there is a wetland area behind the church too. It was pretty sceneic to have a single oak tree atop a large grassy hill that rolled down to a marshy lake. I couldn’t get far enough back for that shot though.

If you are into digital photography, don’t settle for the automatic “make picture black and white” button. I use Photoshop CS2, here’s my process:

  1. Create a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer
  2. Set the Layer Style to Color
  3. Create another Hue/Saturation adjustment layer on top of it and drop the saturation all the way down on it
  4. Next go back to your first adjustment layer and fiddle with the Hue slider
  5. Depending on your picture, you may also want to add a Brightness/Contrast adjustment layer
  6. Oh and don’t forget to Unsharp Mask when you’re all done.

I’m not sure if Photoshop Elements has adjustment layers. Just search on Google for how to make better black and white images with what ever image editting tool you may use — it’s well worth it.

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