Cemetery pictures?

[jtk]

Amy Winehouse.. Back To Black

 

[roseupshur]

The cemetery is a storehouse of good ideas for stories and great perspectives for photos. What are they afraid of? As my granny says: you need not to fear the dead, but the living. So, I have no reason not to listen to my grandmother

 

[Dali]

As my granny says: you need not to fear the dead, but the living.

So true!

 

[AgX]

The cemetery is a storehouse of good ideas for stories and great perspectives for photos.

As this thread shows people have different views on this.

I am seemingly inbetween. I see a public cementery as public place. Still I think I there are things that should not let go through. Once I protested at a firm who advertized for their shoes with a photo showing a model sitting on a gravestone in such cemetery

 

[Sirius Glass]

Why are there fences and walls around cemeteries?









Because people are dying to get in.

 

[AgX]

To stop people from making nonsense there at night.
And meanwhile cemeteries over here have become a major object of vandalism and theft.

 

[jay moussy]

To stop people from making nonsense there at night.
And meanwhile cemeteries over here have become a major object of vandalism and theft.

My sister in France, who actively tends the family grave, complains about flower thefts...
She now brings only flowers that are plain as can be, which is sad as my late mother was really into flowers.
The local laws now say that you cannot take anything OUT.

 

[AgX]

If they only would steal flowers... Typically anything from brass and bronze is broken out and stolen. Including the name plates on the tombs. Complete cemeteries are devestated this way.

The same goes for big bronze sculptures on public places.

 

[justlexi]

I have never tried to capture photos in a cemetery, I just find it creepy.

 

[MattKing]

Earlier this year, my wife and I attended at an internment ceremony for her cousin. His ashes were buried beside the ashes of his parents and several other of his (and my wife's) relatives.
We brought flowers for both his grave and the graves of several of his relatives who my wife was close to.
We took photos to help remember.

 

[jay moussy]

Up here in New England, and particularly on Cape Cod and MA south coast, there are a great number of small forgotten cemeteries, by the road side. I think careful photo work there is more a reverence to the dead, rather than abusive.

An odd one: There is Dr Lord's tombstone by the side of the road in Chatham. A heroic fight against the epidemic of 1765.
Read about him

 

[removed account4]

In the USA at least beginning with cemetaries like the Mount Auborn Cemetary in Cambridge MA, cemetaries were planned to be like a small park rather than a graveyard. ... with all sorts of buildings and sculpture and benches and open space for people to enjoy themselves, stroll, look at the sights, streams, ponds, even have picnics. Unfortunately in some cemetaries, photography has become oulawed because there are not only respectful photographers but people who desecrate the areas. I've shot family portraits in cemetaries that were like parks, and also been told to pack up. I'm fond of receiving tombs, chapels and cemetary buildings as much as the sculpture in the cemetaries, they really tell the whole story.

 

[GRHazelton]

An interesting thread, from cemetery snaps to bicycle repair to film development to..... Anyhow, someone asked about 35mm TLRs. Here's a good thread on such; there were quite a few. http://corsopolaris.net/supercameras/twin25/tlr35.html

Shooting in cemeteries: Here in the Atlanta area we have the Oakland Cemetery, a public park and, I think, still an active cemetery. Excellent pic opportunities! Several years ago Flora and I were invited to "pose" in the Confederate Cemetery in nearby Jonesboro. The shooter used light painting to create an interesting effect; sadly we were not included in the book she produced. While we were shooting a local police car came by, he later returned and regaled us with several tales of the cemetery and some of its long time guests.

Flora and I are seriously considering contacting the Brothers at the nearby Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Conyers. The Brothers are able to use a nature preserve for natural burials, ashes of the deceased can be buried, or the body can be buried in a winding sheet or a cardboard or wicker coffin. We tend toward the wicker coffin. A native boulder can be inscribed with the "vitals" of the dead. We like the idea of "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" and the minimal use of ground and minimal environmental impact from embalming or cremation.

 

[jtk]

Why are there fences and walls around cemeteries?









Because people are dying to get in.

Good joke! But I think the walls are there to keep mobs of photographers out.

 

[Jim Jones]

I've placed a rose on the tombstone of a friend's mother and sent a photo of it to her as she can't make the long trip to visit the cemetery. Prohibiting that would be heartless.

 

[ced]

Here there is nothing gloomy in sight. Known as "The Merry Cemetery" in Roumania.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/merry-cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Cemetery

 

[pentaxuser]

It's a salutery thought that in almost sixteen years since this thread was started some of the members who posted on it will themselves be " pushing up daiseys"

Is this the oldest thread still active? We haven't seen the OP since December 2003 and the contributors read like a list of "all our yesterdays" in terms of "founding fathers of APUG" but someone called Ann made a contribution in the first few weeks and was last seen last Monday so there are some real "stayers" left as well

A sign of film photography surviving will be that in a few more years, some "founding father" will reply in a thread that the OP was probably still in a pushchair when the subject of the thread was first brought up and the OP will say: "Still in a push chair! I wasn't even born"

pentaxuser

 

[jamesaz]

There is a photo of me taken at about age 8-9 in Boot Hill in Tombstone , Az. the inscription reads "Here Lies Lester Moore, 4 Slugs From a .44 No Les, No more." When my sons were about the same age I posed them by that marker and made a triptych for my mother. Curiously, the background was different in that the marker backed up to a different place on the mountain. So Les' location in the ground, if he even ever existed, was not as important as his marker.

 

[Theo Sulphate]

Why are there fences and walls around cemeteries?
...

https://instantrimshot.com/

Pssst - just between you and me, you said that before in #40

 

[Theo Sulphate]

I need to find the cemetery where Arch Stanton is buried...

 

[Vincent Peri]

I need to find the cemetery where Arch Stanton is buried...

I'm afraid it's in Italy.

 

[Arklatexian]

Why are there fences and walls around cemeteries?









Because people are dying to get in.

Which reminds me of an old Cajun joke. It seems this Cajun drank too much and passed out. Some of his friends took him to a cemetery and put him into an open grave. The next morning he woke up, stood up, looked around and said "hot dog, here it is Judgement Day and I am the first one up!......Sorry!....Regards!

 

[mooseontheloose]

Is this the oldest thread still active? We haven't seen the OP since December 2003 and the contributors read like a list of "all our yesterdays" in terms of "founding fathers of APUG" but someone called Ann made a contribution in the first few weeks and was last seen last Monday so there are some real "stayers" left as well
pentaxuser

I had that same feeling revisiting this thread. So many old familiar names that no longer show up anymore. I hope it's more because they've moved on to other things in life, rather than beyond it.

As for the fences...as someone who visits and photographs cemeteries regularly (almost 200 in 4 years), I have to say I appreciate the fence. Since cemeteries are often not in tourist/well-known areas, they can sometimes be difficult to find. But once I see even a small part of a wall, I know I'm on the right track.

 

[AgX]

And that wall finally will lead you out again...