Murray Family Monument

Here is another late 19th century family monument at St Michaels Catholic Cemetery in Sioux Falls, SD. I thought it would make a great project to practice my hobby because of the multi-veined stone, the weathering and the lichen that grows in patches all over it.

I used my nifty fifty manual focus lens with my Nikon D200, manual settings at f22 ISO 100 in RAW and set it up on a tripod with a cable shutter release to minimize vibration.

When I started photographing the stone, it was a partl