Old Cemetery Photography, anyone?

[PrettySquareGal]

I know we have some photographers here. Any of you like to snap old statues or historic burial grounds? I love old cemetery statues.

 

[KAT]

here... i love it..i go to a lot of old war cemeteries..have to pick up my bw film today

 

[binkmeisterRick]

Like this?

I've got more at home somewhere which I've been meaning to scan in for a while...

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Yes like those!!!

 

[PrettySquareGal]

here... i love it..i go to a lot of old war cemeteries..have to pick up my bw film today

Cool! I've been shooting them for years and am off to take some more with my new Nikon D50!

 

[binkmeisterRick]

I'll have to see if I can unearth my favourite photo accident. My wife and I were in an old cemetery taking pictures a couple years ago. I had just loaded my camera with a fresh roll of black and white film and noticed a neat statue of a young woman. I took a picture and advanced the film, though it seemed a bit jerky. I tried again, snapping another from a different angle. Advance film. Film catches. Try another shot at still another angle. Advance. Film freezes. I was SO pissed that I felt like hurling my camera as far as I could throw it. Still, I decided to wind the film back in the canister in the event I had one shot which might develop. To my utter astonishment, when I got the film back form the developer, I did, indeed, have one outstanding shot. Turns out the film wasn't advancing at all, but I managed a triple exposure of this statue which made it look like there were three of them conversing with each other. It was worth wasting an entire roll of good film for that single photograph. I'll try to look for it tonight.

 

[scotrace]

Not Much Here

So many vacation photos are of cemeteries, but I find them fascinating. I wrote about one I saw in MA that was an intense experience for me.

There's not much in my area. Some Victorian Mausoleums. Not much statuary.

I hope we see some pictures here?

 

[PrettySquareGal]

I need to set up image hosting one of these days. I'm off, but when I return, will look into attaching some.

 

[binkmeisterRick]

So many vacation photos are of cemeteries, but I find them fascinating. I wrote about one I saw in MA that was an intense experience for me.

There's not much in my area. Some Victorian Mausoleums. Not much statuary.

I hope we see some pictures here?

I love that story! Very well written, my firend.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

From this morning

Image hosting is now set up! I have over one hundred of these, but here are my fresh shots from two hours ago:

 

[Lauren]

Those are lovely!
I'm not that great of a photographer, but there's some pictures of the cemetary at St Andrew's mixed in my Scotland pics here.

 

[PrettySquareGal]

Thanks! I like yours, too!

 

[scotrace]

Well, that's decided

"The holes are to allow the juices to escape"

Cremation it is, for me, then.

GREAT photos Lauren. I'm going back to them...

 

[Lauren]

Haha. Yeah... I like to put random things at the bottom of my pictures... Thanks