W/NW: Cemeteries

[ChrisN]

Wow - some great shots there! Brett - love the dramatic angles!

 

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Picking up on Roy's segue - AZ offers a way for families and friends to honor ftheir departed loved ones and also contriubte to making the byways more pleasant to drive on....

 

[tomtodeath]

 

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This was a "grab shot" taken during the waning light of a rapidly descending January nightfall.....

 

[bmoc]

thanks for starting the thread on this beautiful subject.
-barry

 

[Michael I.]

war

war

world war 1 is neglected because there are no witnesses left.But it still is a scar on mankind's body

 

[Andy K]

world war 1 is neglected because there are no witnesses left.But it still is a scar on mankind's body

As of April 18 2006 Britain has nine surviving veterans of The Great War. We currently have proposals underway to honour the last veteran to pass on with a full state funeral, see here.
I do not know how many survive in other countries who fought.

 

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world war 1 is neglected because there are no witnesses left.But it still is a scar on mankind's body

Wow, he died just five days before the Armistice! 🙁

 

[Michael I.]

A large percent of that cemetary is from this battle. They fought the Turks for this city (beersheba - southern israel) which was a square mile administrative outpost which purpose was communicating with three large local bedouin tribes that met here. The city today is third or fourth largest in Israel.

 

[sfb_dot_com]

This is my contribution, not quite a cemetary but this is the war memorial for one small town in Cornwall. It is inscribed with Mens names on all four sides. Hundreds of them.

The only lesson we need to learn is never to forget.

Andy

 

[trittium]

Oakwood Cemetary, Troy NY

This cemetary is amazing. It was made in Victorian times by the founders of the Arrow Shirt Company. It has the nations first cematorium, and is considered one of the top 10 most haunted placed by many authorities on the matter. The Monuments are amazing, and were comissioned by the Victorian Elite class. There are ponds, and one side of the cemetary is on a hill that overlooks the Hudson River Valley. I even saw the grave of an former US Senator.

Technical Information:
Certo Dolly Super Sport medium format folding rangefinder camera circa 1937
Zeiss Tessar 50/2.8
Fuji Velvia 100
Developed in Kodak E6 Kit
Jobo Developing system
Epson 4180 Scanner

 

[nwcanonman]

I found this grave and passed the photo to a friend in Pierce Co. (WA) Sheriff's dept. Turned out they didn't know he was buried down here in Tumwater, WA. An 8"x10" of it is now in their historical exhibit. 😀

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Yashica GSN

Wayne

 

[enochRoot]

here are some from a recent trip to greenlawn cemetary (columbus ohio). it is HUGE, and has a lot of the old ohio heads of state buried there, as well as pillars in the community from way back (ie: the people all the streets are named after). it's very tranquil to stroll around the grounds.

unfortunately...these prints were scanned with arguably the worst scanner known (it's an all-in-one). it would only give me 100% 200dpi color jpegs (with HORRIBLE registration) of my small proof prints. anyhow...these don't do the prints justice, but they are the closest i could get to post (and i didn't want to miss this thread). so many great images here...and nice to know i'm not the only one that loves wandering around the graveyard! could someone recommend a good scanner that is inexpensive for use only to scan images for the web (flatbed)?!?!

all of them except the one with my wife are shot w/ a dark red filter (the one she is in uses a dark orange filter). the shot of the mausoleum is konica infrared...the others are tmax 100.

ok...crap. the limit is now 3 photos to upload?! hopefully this will be followed by 2 more.

 

[enochRoot]

the remaining 2.

 

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Westminster Abbey.....

 

[24x30]

A subject were I could not withstand 🙂

german ww2 graveyard near La Cambe (Normandy, France)

/rudi

 

[kmack]

Jefferson MD.
George Richards -Born 1798

 

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil...."

[Disclaimer: Biblical quotation is as my better half remembers it - argue with her if the wording is wrong!]

 

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Another one from the same shoot.

BTW: both with the Bessa R2S, 5.0cm Nikkor and Fujichrome (yes, chrome)...