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    Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    I’m curious if you’ll instruct your survivors to display LF photos at your funeral service or wake? The average age around here is 49 years, so this must have crossed your mind at least once.

    Some people request songs be played – it would seem natural that people here would ask that certain prints be displayed.

    If so, would they be your prints – or if images taken by others, which ones and why?

    What would you want the image(s) to communicate?

    How & where would you display them? Landscapes? Portraits?

    Finally, anyone taking a print (or two) “with them”?

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    No. I'm going to be burnt and my ashes tossed to the wind. No funeral.

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    I'm doing the same as Old-N-Feeble, but at any kind of memorial service that might be held, I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Quote Originally Posted by michael slade View Post
    I'm doing the same as Old-N-Feeble, but at any kind of memorial service that might be held, I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.
    Are you going to sign them before you go?

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Quote Originally Posted by michael slade View Post
    <snip>I'll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.
    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    Are you going to sign them before you go?
    Only in carbon ink...

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Quote Originally Posted by michael slade View Post
    …I’ll have my kids/wife put out a box of prints and let people take whatever they want.
    That’s a great idea to soothe everyone’s sense of loss.

    I’ve always considered displaying a favorite classic landscape from the deepest American Romanticist oil-on-canvas tradition – say Frederick Edwin Church or Thomas Cole. It would be a natural scene whose separate elements interact to communicate a grand, dynamic energy. A number of images by AA would capture that sort of spirit in a silver print. I might even be able to afford an original to show in that case.

    This would also be my guiding principle when choosing a silver print of my own – either to display at the service, or make available for people to take home, like Michael.

    Quote Originally Posted by Vaughn View Post
    Are you going to sign them before you go?
    Yes, I’d sign my prints in advance to make them personal, as well as universal.

    The prints would remind people, I hope, that I’m still around in a special sense.

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Quote Originally Posted by Heroique View Post
    That’s a great idea to soothe everyone’s sense of loss.
    I like the idea of everyone's loss needing to be soothed upon my passing, but honestly I'm sure my wife would like to get the crap out of the house. If people's loss is soothed, well, all the better. There will be a few people dancing on my wind-strewn ashes I am sure (if they could find them...I'm being strewn in an awfully remote area...).

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Why?
    "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    Quote Originally Posted by John Kasaian View Post
    Why?
    Is this a profound cry to the heavens about death, or a simple question for Michael about choosing a remote place for his ashes? ;^)

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    Re: Will photos decorate your funeral, memorial, or wake?

    The 'why' and 'where' of my ashes being strewn in a remote location is so that those who attend the 'strewing occasion' will finally be compelled to go to the places I found myselb being drawn towards to both seek my own solitude and also create my photography. Usually no one knows what it's like where I go shoot...this would be a way for them to experience it at least once.

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