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Pet peeves:
1) Using INTERNMENT (the practice of placing persons in detention, especially during wartime), where INTERMENT (burial) is actually intended.
2)Using residence at death as place of death. Many people died at out of town hospitals or were simply gone from their homes when they died.

Regarding photographs:
If you take a photo that seems better than the one I have taken, by all means, post it! The quality and legibility of a photo depend on a lot of things--amount of sunlight, angle of sunlight, shading by trees, time of day, etc. Sometimes I get a good pic and sometimes I don't. A not-so-great pic is better than none at all.

Things I try to do (but don't always succeed in doing!)
1)Take pics on a sunny morning.
2)Don't get my shoes or other extraneous items/people in the pic!
3)Take the pic so the stone looks level, even if it isn't.
4)Crop my photos before posting so I don't have 50% grass and the stone is small and difficult to read.
5)Avoid getting a reflection of myself in the stone (and wear dark clothing to minimize that if it does happen).
6)Avoid casting shadows on the stone.
7)Check all sides of the stone.
8)On upright stones, photograph the "front" of the stone, not including the "top" at all, unless there is something specific of interest on the top; if the stone is flat, take the photo from directly above so the inscriptions is legible and not distorted.

Always happy and eager to make corrections, additions or add links to memorials.

The special ones who have gone before me:

Mike

Dad

Mom

***I highly recommend visiting the forums page to keep up on site news.***

Pet peeves:
1) Using INTERNMENT (the practice of placing persons in detention, especially during wartime), where INTERMENT (burial) is actually intended.
2)Using residence at death as place of death. Many people died at out of town hospitals or were simply gone from their homes when they died.

Regarding photographs:
If you take a photo that seems better than the one I have taken, by all means, post it! The quality and legibility of a photo depend on a lot of things--amount of sunlight, angle of sunlight, shading by trees, time of day, etc. Sometimes I get a good pic and sometimes I don't. A not-so-great pic is better than none at all.

Things I try to do (but don't always succeed in doing!)
1)Take pics on a sunny morning.
2)Don't get my shoes or other extraneous items/people in the pic!
3)Take the pic so the stone looks level, even if it isn't.
4)Crop my photos before posting so I don't have 50% grass and the stone is small and difficult to read.
5)Avoid getting a reflection of myself in the stone (and wear dark clothing to minimize that if it does happen).
6)Avoid casting shadows on the stone.
7)Check all sides of the stone.
8)On upright stones, photograph the "front" of the stone, not including the "top" at all, unless there is something specific of interest on the top; if the stone is flat, take the photo from directly above so the inscriptions is legible and not distorted.

Always happy and eager to make corrections, additions or add links to memorials.

The special ones who have gone before me:

Mike

Dad

Mom