Rows Beneath Autumn Leaves

The project contrasts vegetation and seasonal color with a metal gate, low walls, grave markers, and the repeated geometry of a landscaped burial ground.

burial ground / grave markers / autumn foliage / metal gate / ivy

A dark metal gate introduces the burial ground through a narrow, shaded threshold. Beyond it, weathered markers gather around a large tree, ivy crosses stone surfaces, and a tall evergreen rises above pale markers and distant buildings.

The view opens beneath autumn foliage as a low wall separates irregular foreground stones from extensive rows across green slopes. Layered leaves partially screen the widening landscape before the sequence concludes among sunlit branches and blue sky.

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Built Forms

  • Figures, Gates, and Open Sky - The view moves from a courthouse facade to a backlit abstract figure and finally toward a gate opening into grass.
  • Between the Carved Towers - The gateway remains fixed while the sequence shows visitors below it, one person before the steps, two front-facing stances, extended arms, and a final rear view.
  • Curves, Canopy, Cloud - A study of changing scale in which pale architectural curves, a single person, gray sky, forested ridges, and a broad mountain give way to blurred vegetation.
  • A Street Roll Around a Lattice Tower - A sequence of street photographs unified by a recurring red-and-white lattice tower glimpsed from different vantage points, framed by a staircase, an avenue, an expressway, and finally a building where window washers...
  • A City Walk From Rooftop to Street - A sequence that changes altitude across the city, opening on distant rooftops seen through glass, dropping to street-level signage and architecture, and closing on a nighttime convenience store and a daylight upward...
  • The Clock Tower, Three Distances - Six frames that move from a clock-tower building and a sunlit corner through one office block viewed from three distances, closing on a hazy mountain ridge.
  • An Aerial View Across a Dense City - A sequence of elevated views looking out and down over a dense city, opening on nearby glass-capped towers, descending into rooftop-level texture, and closing on a distant skyline beneath shifting cloud cover.
  • Circling a Lit Lattice Tower at Night - Eight night frames that circle a floodlit steel lattice tower -- from a distance, from directly beneath its legs and girders, and finally glimpsed through a red wooden gate.

Images

A dark metal gate between ivy-covered posts frames rows of pale grave markers on a sunlit lawn.
The sequence opens at a shaded threshold before moving into the brighter grounds beyond.
A low rectangular grave marker with ivy across its face stands before a broad tree trunk, surrounded by leaning and upright weathered markers.
This close study introduces surface wear and encroaching vegetation before the sequence expands outward.
A tall evergreen rises above rows of pale grave markers, with a multistory brick building visible beyond autumn trees.
The third frame lifts the sequence upward while retaining traces of the grounds along its lower edge.
Sunlit autumn leaves arch above leaning grave markers, a low stone wall, and distant rows of pale markers.
The sequence shifts here from close, irregular forms toward a broader field of repetition.
An overall soft view shows curving rows of pale grave markers across a green hillside between dark foreground forms.
The fifth frame expands the sequence from a layered section of ground to a field-wide pattern.
Autumn-colored leaves and pale grave markers fill an overall soft view, with rows running diagonally through the tilted frame.
This transitional view carries the sequence from the broad marker field toward the closing canopy.
Red, orange, and yellow lobed leaves hang from dark branches against patches of clear blue sky.
The sequence ends overhead, leaving the patterned ground for a canopy crossed by light.