In the high desert.
The National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona is located on a vast piece of desert land in Cave Creek, northeast of Scottsdale where I live. The fallow space leaves lots of room for future generations of murderous politicians to send innocent men and women to an early grave. As usual, I try to visit a National Cemetery on Memorial Day and as this one is near my home, convenience was an added plus.
Dedication.
Austere memorial.
Grave Locator.
True colors.
In the Columbarium – where ashes are stored.
The Columbarium.
Saguaro cemetery.
Lone flag.
Moving display.
Ocotillo.
Memorial Day.
Mourning.
Never forget.
USAF.
Under the hot Arizona sun.
On this occasion the hardware consisted of the Nikon D3x along with the ancient but superb 20mm UD Nikkor, the 35-70mm AFD Nikkor and the 200mm Nikkor-Q which, I swear, will not allow you to make a bad picture. The 20mm and 200mm were AI’d and chipped by me to allow recording of EXIF data, which I find key for image search and retrieval. The AFD is factory Ai’d and chipped. All pretty much straight out of camera with the exception of #10 (warmth added, cropped), #13 (monochrome conversion), #15 and #16 (LR cold tone preset plus highlight reduction). ISO200 throughout with #10 being the best of ten at 1/60th and f/32 for maximum DOF. I’m getting less steady with age!