by Erin-Lee McGuire | Jun 1, 2018 | Blog, Uncategorized
In this course we have learned a whole lot about recording cemeteries. One of the important procedures that goes hand in hand with gravestone recording is photography. Photographing monuments is essential because it provides a record of what the monument looks like....
by Melanie Heizer | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
Two summers ago I was a student in the first running of the field course (we were awesome Guinea pigs). I was paired with two other students to do fieldwork with, and we decided to do our final project on the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) on...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 20, 2016 | Blog
Today marked the end of our second week doing fieldwork as a class in this beautiful cemetery. I can’t believe how quickly time is flying! So far, this has been one of the most interesting and hands on courses I have ever taken in my three years at Uvic. It is both...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 18, 2016 | Blog
Transition So far our focus at the Jewish cemetery has been about the individuals represented by the memorials, their spatial relationship to the landscape and to each other as well as the dimensions of each of the memorial features. As we move into the second week...
by Brittany Walker | Jul 3, 2015 | Blog
I often found myself to be the first to arrive at the Emanu-el cemetery during our field school sessions. There are no walls that separate this space from the busy city streets outside yet I found it strangely quiet within the cemetery. I knew no one buried there but...
