Unknown Soldier Site

I have over 3,800 photos in my Flickr account, and it grows more every year. :| I’m glad there are no restrictions on size amount and bandwidth, or I’d be fried. :|

Anyway, I dug this photo out of my old archives. I like it because it is so old looking. It’s a photo I snapped at Fort Ontario. There is a small potter’s field cemetery near the fort, a very lonely and forlorn area under some trees. The head stones I saw were from the Revolutionary and Civil War days. There were women and children buried there, too, so I assume it was a cemetery for the unclaimed soldiers and/or for their families. I gave it a sepia look. It makes the photo look more aged, but also heightens the forlorn aspect, I think.

Life was so much more serious back then. Today, everyone seems hyped up on 7-dfbx or looking like a celebrity… back then, people were concerned with if they’d have enough food to eat and if they would survive the British invasion. Times certainly have changed.