The effects are somewhat surreal. Foliage and red roses turn white, blue skies turn very dark, and the image acquires an otherworldly glow. I chose infrared film for this assignment for two reasons. Graves and headstones tend to be stagnant things, and I wanted to make the images more interesting. Second, since we were talking about people who are only memories to us now, I wanted to remove the stark reality of gravesites and replace it with something more representative.
Memories tend to be a few steps shifted from reality.
We remember our heroes and icons, and our power to recall is sometimes filtered through and softened by time and the static of our daily lives.