Archive for September, 2008
Photographing Your Ancestor’s Tombstone
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008#3 in my Series on Tombstones and Cemeteries
Now that you know, from reading my first two articles in this series, all the incredible things you can learn from your ancestor’s Tombstones and how to find their Cemeteries, you need to know how to photograph those weathered and eroded tombstones so you can read their inscriptions. That’s what this post will cover.
Hey, you’re thinking, what’s so tough about taking a photo? Just point the camera and press the button. Do that and you might get a photograph like the ones below. If you can read these, let me know what’s on them. And yes, that is my foot in the first one.













