Earlier this week, I joined a group from my camera club on an outing to Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge. Established in 1831, it was the first garden cemetery in the US, and is one of the loveliest spots in the Boston area. Although it was a glorious spring day, with many trees in bloom, we decided to give ourselves the challenge of photographing in black and white.

Mount Auburn serves many purposes. It is a park, an arboretum, a tourist attraction, a favorite destination for walkers, and, of course, a cemetery. Looking down from the Washington Tower, I was able to capture many of those identities in a single frame.