Submitter's name:	Daryl Hurley
Title:	Missing Marker?
Gear used:	OM-2n + 85/2
Film used:	Agfachrome 100
Technical information:	This is situated under 3 trees, with lots of leaves on them.  Once I decided this was my subject, the sun decided to shine brightly every day of the shooting period that I went by it.  At any time of day it has this mottled pattern on it from the shadows.  I tried flash, on camera, got lots of glare from the metal surface.  Off camera, even weirder shadows.  I tried a reflector, then two and still couldn't get rid of the patchy look, so I just shot the damned thing as it is.  Maybe I'll remember to go back when it's overcast....
Subject information:	Not a major landmark, in fact most natives wouldn't know where to look if you told them to find it.  The only reason I know of its existence is several times a year, for the last 50+ years, I hear the story of how my mother, when she was 8 years old,  went to the dedication ceremony with her dad and got selected from the crowd to take part in the ceremony by lifting the sheet to unveil the marker which was set in a  flagstone path by a pond in a local park.  I grew up playing in that park, wading in that pond, and I always wondered what happened to the marker.  Just a couple years ago I finally found it.  Apparently there was some concern over the life span of the marker due to its placement in the path and it was relocated, without any fanfare,  about 50 feet off the path in an upright position in an effort to preserve it. Footnote:  Before I took Mother to see that it really was still there I moved one of the park's picnic tables under the trees with it, it's been there ever since.  (Wow, that got really long-winded!)
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Comment left by: Marc Lawrence (mlawrence@cfp.com.au)

It's possibly not appropriate to make this call from the above scan, but I actually don't mind the sunlight and shadows "as it is". That hard overhead light just seems to work with the concept of early settlers working under a harsh sun (which is how Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson portray early Australian settlers and such), and it certainly gives an easy legibility to the words and pictures. So, perhaps even after overcast, the starter will end up the keeper :-)

Comment left by: Chris (ftog at threeshoes.co.uk)

Lovely story to complement the subject.

Comment left by: Ian Nichols (i.a.nichols@bris.ac.uk)

Sorry to dispute your intended artistic interpretation, but I agree with Marc: this sort of thing works well with strong,hard lighting. If I'd tried to shoot it, it would have been overcast every day.

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