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http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/1665/U1665I1145709321.SEQ.0.jpg
Small Baptist cemetery in rural Illinois, 1880s
ClaremontPhoto
04-22-2006, 06:05
I think this one is pretty weird:
Plymouth Burial Ground in Plymouth, MA...
ClaremontPhoto
04-22-2006, 06:10
Dead People:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/Minitar1/Prints/StMarysPanFRod.jpg
Gabriel M.A.
04-22-2006, 07:11
(sorry, this time it's digital...)
http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u42/gabrielma/upload/26993788.sm_20040304_0386_3.jpg
Père Lachaise
Gabriel M.A.
04-22-2006, 07:11
http://mishami.image.pbase.com/u42/gabrielma/upload/27032494.sm_20040304_0432_4.jpg
Gabriel M.A.
04-22-2006, 07:12
http://i.pbase.com/u42/gabrielma/upload/26991399.sm_20040304_0384_sepia.jpg
enochRoot
04-22-2006, 09:34
nice shot andy!
Todd.Hanz
04-22-2006, 09:45
A few...
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1144026016.jpg
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1143736354.jpg
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1135343722.jpg
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1135293573.jpg
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1126979011.jpg
http://my-expressions.com/up_media/1108/pblog/899/1144115700.jpg
Todd
Mt Zion Cemetary, Washington DC
R-D1, CV 35/2.5 Classic
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/rffgallery/gallery/1632/U1632I1134447564.SEQ.0.jpg
Cheers,
Kirk
I saw the subject and decided to venture out to the local pioneer cemetery on a drizzly Saturday afternoon.
Both shot with a Kiev 4a on Maco TP64c, rated at ISO 50, developed in Rollei LC
Tombstone: Jupiter 8m
Children's graves: Jupiter 12
Peter
I was looking for a mood...
Pre-Columbian Burial Mound located near Macon, Georgia, USA. Picture taken with a Kiev 4A.
Walker
tetrisattack
04-22-2006, 16:18
Lonely death, amherst MA.
Benjamin Franklin's wife, Boston MA
Joerg
bmattock
04-22-2006, 16:55
Macabre Humor:
http://www.cameramentor.com/images/willowdale_cemetery/small_imgp3237.jpg
Not so funny:
http://www.cameramentor.com/images/willowdale_cemetery/small_imgp3244.jpg
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
bmattock
04-22-2006, 16:59
A few...
Todd
Todd, those are awesome. Well done.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
drmatthes
04-22-2006, 18:41
First one: Stubenrauchstrasse Cemetry, Berlin-Friedenau (where Marlene Dietrich and Helmut Newton were buried - and Ottomar Anschütz, one of the contributors to the invention of the leaf shutter). Second one: closed-down Jewish Cemetery, Hannover (Nobody allowed to enter, authorities obviously still being afraid of Nazi hooligans, sad thing to admit).
Jesko
Obscenity on a old stone..
bmattock
04-22-2006, 18:57
Obscenity on a old stone..
What a shame. Here in NC, they recently caught three kids who defaced a bunch of headstones in a cemetary. A local stone quarry repaired the headstones for free that same week, without comments - they just showed up and did it. And the boys? They face felony charges - the PA says he won't reconsider - they're over 18 and going to go to prison - it is a felony here.
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
as it should be...that stone is 160 years old...
We all did stupid stuff as kids, and I'd like to think that kids are always the same, but it's just not true. There's a meanness and disrespect the kids have nowadays...just listen to the music they listen to now. Obscene and vulgar lyrics about ho's, drugs, money and gangs. Add reality TV to the scenario and sadly, one can't help but feel society is sliding backwards...
bmattock
04-22-2006, 19:19
as it should be...that stone is 160 years old...
We all did stupid stuff as kids, and I'd like to think that kids are always the same, but it's just not true. There's a meanness and disrespect the kids have nowadays...just listen to the music they listen to now. Obscene and vulgar lyrics about ho's, drugs, money and gangs. Add reality TV to the scenario and sadly, one can't help but feel society is sliding backwards...
I've been saying it for awhile. I'll just post the link, the actual words would shock and dismay my friends here:
A Mild Rant - 1999 Burning of Veteran's Plaque (http://groups.google.com/group/talk.politics.guns/msg/05f416b8c2fd199c?hl=en&)
Best Regards,
Bill Mattocks
Pretty poignant and powerful stuff, Bill. A tough read for me since we in Canada lost 4 in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan today, something we're not used to....in an awful coincidence I understand the US lost 4 in a roadside IED in Iraq today as well.
You're dead right about the 60/70's generation and the music back then.....it was political, emotional, idealistic, naive, but much of it was very intelligent. Contrast that with the filth and simplistic jibberish you hear today (and I'm no prude), and you get a general idea of what's going wrong....
Someone on this forum has a quote something like "We have seen the enemy, and he is us".....not far from the truth. But what can parents do against this media onslaught that glorifies and encourages this disgusting behaviour?
Michael I.
04-23-2006, 03:25
ww1 cemetery
Time Freeze
04-23-2006, 05:09
I have always cemeteries fascinating. The headstones and monuments in old sections can be works of art. Here are two shots from my Yashica GSN.
Sorry for the tiny images. The two photos are also in my gallery.
The first 2 are from 2 public cemeteries in Zurich, Switzerland. The last is from a cemetery in Penang, Malaysia.
Stuart John
04-24-2006, 11:36
Grave Yard Squirrel
enochRoot
04-24-2006, 11:40
that last shot (sepia toned) is great nick!!
JoeFriday
04-24-2006, 11:49
taken in a local cemetery that was featured on a national television program for allegedly being haunted
Vivitar 35ES... Kodak BW400CN
darkkavenger
04-24-2006, 12:23
Old cemetary of Vysehrad in Prague, near the Capitular SS. Peter & Paul gothic church. I've heard that nowadays it's used as a sort of pantheon of famous people of the czech nation.
Kiev-2A [1956] + Jupiter-12 35/2.8 [Arsenal, 1958]
Ilford PAN 400
I have some others I'd like to post later - but picking up on dexdog's post (#2) the "finger" was apparently a very popular theme in the 19th C. - this was taken a a Reformed (f.k.a. Dutch Reformed) churchyard in Copake:
Not really a cemetary, but you get the idea. Canon GIII, Pan f +
Roy
Wow - some great shots there! Brett - love the dramatic angles!
vincentbenoit
04-24-2006, 16:04
http://static.flickr.com/21/25288691_fd09d71657_o.jpg
Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof, Bergheim, France.
Vincent
vincentbenoit
04-24-2006, 16:07
http://static.flickr.com/22/25288082_30676d7754_o.jpg
Sigolsheim WWII military cemetery, France.
Vincent
Thankyou, Vincent. Today Australians celebrate ANZAC day, the anniversary of the WWI landing at Gallipoli, and the day on which we remember the sacrifices of those who served.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
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....
My late mom showing her displeasure at being photographed. Taken in an old family cementary near Paris, Arkansas, 2003. M6 TTL, 21/4VC on Velvia.
Todd.Hanz
04-24-2006, 17:28
Nice pics all,
Vincent, the WWII cemetary shot is beautiful!
Todd
Saw that Gallipoli movie with Mel Gibson, and just recently that one with Kirk Douglas and the French troop mutiny (Paths of Glory?)....unbelievable what they made those poor guys do back then.
tomtodeath
04-24-2006, 17:41
http://burntodeath.net/death.jpg
This was a "grab shot" taken during the waning light of a rapidly descending January nightfall.....
darkkavenger
04-25-2006, 02:57
I love your shots, Vincent! Were they taken in Alsace?
thanks for starting the thread on this beautiful subject.
-barry
Michael I.
04-25-2006, 04:48
world war 1 is neglected because there are no witnesses left.But it still is a scar on mankind's body
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 (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1183&id=585882006).
I do not know how many survive in other countries who fought.
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.
04-25-2006, 06:30
A large percent of that cemetary is from this battle. They fought the Turks for this city(beer sheba - southern israel) which was a square mile adminastrative outpost which purpose was communicating with three large local bedouin tribes that met here. The city today is third or fourth largest in Israel but still is very neglected by the authorities and has high levels of unemployment and miseducation.The only reasons this city gets money is that it has a central hospital and an university,most of the atendees to which are not local and will not stay once they completed their education.
Todd and Vincent:
You both have put up some well done shots. Love the last one, Vincent, with the flag on the horizon...
After looking at your stuff, I am shy to put up anything... :)
W.
Greenwood Cemetary, Brooklyn.
vincentbenoit
04-25-2006, 09:43
I love your shots, Vincent! Were they taken in Alsace?Thanks Max. Yes, both cemeteries are located near Colmar.
Vincent
markinlondon
04-25-2006, 11:07
A large percent of that cemetary is from this battle. They fought the Turks for this city(beer sheba - southern israel) which was a square mile adminastrative outpost which purpose was communicating with three large local bedouin tribes that met here. The city today is third or fourth largest in Israel but still is very neglected by the authorities and has high levels of unemployment and miseducation.The only reasons this city gets money is that it has a central hospital and an university,most of the atendees to which are not local and will not stay once they completed their education.
My grandfather was at Beersheba, Michael. Needless to say he survived.
Mark
sfb_dot_com
04-25-2006, 15:47
My grandfather fought in the first World War. He was wounded twice & fought at the Dardanelles & on the Western Front. He and his three brothers survived the war, and at the end of it he was training to be a pilot in the RFC. We recently donated his medals to his regiment, including the MBE he won for services to Refugees in the Second World War. We have a prayer book he inscribed with the words 'Received whilst Dealing and Dodging Death'
My profession would not exist if it were not for the need to treat shell-shocked soldiers in the war. The first experiments in group therapy taking place at the Northfield Hospital in Birmingham near to where I now work helping to treat people with emotional and behavioural problems.
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
04-25-2006, 20:34
http://static.flickr.com/44/135195884_c7c0190df0_o.jpg
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
04-25-2006, 21:27
Gettysburg, PA.
There are so many .....
nwcanonman
04-25-2006, 21:36
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. :D
Wayne R. Scott
04-26-2006, 02:38
Yashica GSN
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c191/Wscott601/D.jpg
Wayne
enochRoot
04-26-2006, 12:48
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
04-26-2006, 12:49
the remaining 2.
A subject were I could not withstand :)
german ww2 graveyard near La Cambe (Normandy, France)
/rudi
From the only Amenian church in Singapore:
http://gallery.photo.net/photo/3251987-md.jpg
Jefferson MD.
George Richards -Born 1798
Bill Snell
04-30-2006, 23:41
Bad taste but temptation was too great.
"Yeah, 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!]
Another one from the same shoot.
BTW: both with the Bessa R2S, 5.0cm Nikkor and Fujichrome (yes, chrome)...
bmattock
05-01-2006, 17:23
The Fractured 23rd Psalm
Ansel Adams is my Guru;
I shall not bracket.
He maketh me to select the darkest part
of green pastures where I wish to hold detail and places it on Zone III;
He leadeth me to the brightest white and places it on Zone VIII;
Beside the still waters;
He restoreth my contrast;
He leadeth me with a spot-meter
To the Zone System of His Name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of digital,
I will fear no CMOS;
For George Eastman art with me;
Thy D76 and Thy Dektol
They comfort me.
Kodak preparest an emulsion before me
In the presence of mine darkroom;
Thou anointest my negs with Photo-Flo;
My Nikkor runneth over.
Surely contrast and composition shall
Follow me all the days of my life;
And I will have good bokeh
And the Yellow Box shall live forever.
Amen
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