I'm waiting for my brother to send me his "old" digital camera (I still
use film) so I can photograph graves. What I don't care for is one time
the lady requesting the photo (in another city) lived in MY town!
Other obits mention family members living right here so I suggest that
THEY take the photo. :-)
- Shirl -
Gail,
There is nothing more annoying to volunteers than to go and take a
photo just to find out the person requesting asked the world and
someone else did it and wasted the volunteer's time. Even though I
take pictures in larger city cemeteries, some are old. Some are so
large that the flat memorial tablets are trimmed once every X months.
So I sit and trim away the grass. If there's mud (from the lawn being
watered), I pull out my collapsible bucket and find a spigot and wash
it off. Then I let it dry. If the light is not right, I pull out my
umbrella and shade the stone the right way.
In fairness to the Find A Grave volunteers, you should take down your
photo request there and wait and see if anyone on this list picks up
the request or any other you list you may have posted it on. Find A
Grave gives the volunteer 2 weeks to fulfill the request after it has
been claimed. So you could wait 2 weeks after this posting to see if
anyone fills it. And once someone agrees to take your picture, you
need to tell every list you posted on that the request has been
fulfilled so some other volunteer does not go out there to take your
photo.
Sorry if this doesn't sound polite. I've been doing the grave photos
for a few years now on Find A Grave and have encountered a few people
who didn't take down the request and I used my gas, time, and energy
just to find out that the request was fulfilled by someone else. Hope
you understand.
Cheri Mello
Also a Graver on Find A Grave
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