Day 131- Shades of Gray

I got out well before the fog lifted this morning, so that I could get some shots that weren’t in direct sunlight. It was cold and windy, and I only got a few photos because I was freezing without a jacket. However, I did remember to set my white balance to cloudy (which turned out to be insignificant, because I processed the image as a black and white).

The old city cemetery sits on a hill overlooking the Carquinez Strait, and there you will find the gravesites of the city’s early settlers. I visited the cemetery for the first time about fifteen years ago while doing genealogy research and was interested to see that the graves bore names familiar to me from streets and buildings around town named after these pioneers. This gravestone belongs to the wife of Captain Von Pfister, who opened his store a few years before the Gold Rush.