One of my images

(click for my Flickr page for this image)

One of the tags here is “Antietam”.  I thought it might be interesting to browse the public tags, see what others have taken.

I ran across this flickr page.  (I’ve linked it out of respect for the photographer).

Some of his images from the Union graveyard at Antietam were taken around the same time as some of my images from the graveyard.

When I was there taking my pictures, I saw someone else with a fairly large Nikon dSLR.  I find this both really cool and somewhat freaky that I was able to discover who the other person there was by browsing Flickr tags.

I also found out that ‘sdo’ is a Japanese Anime, and a lot of people are looking for pictures of it for some reason, which leads to most of my traffic.  Bleh.

About the photo I’ve posted here:

This isn’t anything special.  There is actually a stone monument right in the middle, which is what caught my eye and the reason I stopped.  Beyond that, I just stopped and took 4 images as I tried to frame up the scene the way I wanted it.  This is the last of the 4 and the one I liked best.  The sky, while fake looking, is an excellent reproduction of the day.  It looks like a painting, and I love it.  I love it to the point where I may end up getting it framed and put on one of my walls.

-sdo