{"id":19753,"date":"2015-10-09T06:20:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=19753"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:20:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T10:20:22","slug":"lee-locke-tombstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/10\/09\/lee-locke-tombstone\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee-Locke Tombstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Lee-Locke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/22016895102\/in\/dateposted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5776\/22016895102_3b5e9c5eaa_z.jpg?resize=389%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lee-Locke Tombstone \" width=\"389\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s another <em>Photo Elective<\/em> shot I took in South Jersey back in 1982. My camera was focused and my mind fixed upon the subject of death and decay because I was a <em>horror film fanatic<\/em> at the time, and I thought it would be <em>arty.<\/em> Recently I posted photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/09\/29\/all-that-remains\/\" target=\"_blank\">junked cars<\/a>. Today&#8217;s post has me wandering around what I believe to be the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interment.net\/data\/us\/nj\/gloucester\/green\/green.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Green Cemetery<\/a> in Deptford Township, Gloucester County, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Photo Elective<\/h2>\n<p>Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other <strong>illustration majors<\/strong> were required to take a minor course in photography. We had to shoot the photos as well as process the negatives and make prints. I don\u2019t recall what the particulars of the class assignments were although I can tell from looking at the negatives which were the assignments and which ones were shot just to finish off a roll. The shots to finish a roll are a lot more interesting. While my fellow students mostly resided and shot their photographs in the vibrant metropolis of Philadelphia, I lived and did most of my shooting in and around the staid and solid small town of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Westville,+NJ+08093\/@39.8610751,-75.1383475,14z\/data=%213m1%214b1%214m2%213m1%211s0x89c6cf913267241d:0xa7086335a8b8b088\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Westville, New Jersey<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another Photo Elective shot I took in South Jersey back in 1982. My camera was focused and my mind fixed upon the subject of death and decay because I was a horror film fanatic at the time, and I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/10\/09\/lee-locke-tombstone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,3340],"tags":[33,148,355,158,988,3364,3551,5,122,480,336],"class_list":["post-19753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-the-photo-elective","tag-1980s","tag-148","tag-35mm","tag-analog","tag-black-and-white","tag-graveyard","tag-green-cemetery","tag-joe-williams","tag-new-jersey","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-58B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18419,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/26\/among-the-forgotten\/","url_meta":{"origin":19753,"position":0},"title":"Among the forgotten","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the 1980s, I went to art school, and I along with all of the other illustration majors were required to take a minor course in photography. 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