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OH Joey thank you so much for asking me to join.I agree with you totally about grave yards just something about them that just drag your spirit in and want to invesigate who some of those forgotten are.
I will be popping up in here alot!
Thanks again for the invite!
Julia
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RavenGirl
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Besides cemeteries, I also like to visit roadside memorials for their imagery as well. Could I include some of these here as well? I'll refrain from such until I here back. Thanks.
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I'm hoping to get some new photos shot this coming weekend!! Can't wait to have some new one's to post.
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I am new to this Group and to Flickr. Cemetery photography has become a passion of mine over the last two years and I hope to be able to add some interesting images.
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Hello Everyone, my name is joey, i am from pittsburgh pa usa, cemeteries are a passion for me. You can view my entire set here
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Polstar* [deleted] says:
Hey there - I'm Polly and I reside in London - home of the 'Magnificent Seven'.
I must admit to being a bit of a Taphophile.
My photography primarily is concentrated in cemeteries. See here for my set of cemetery photos.
I also have an exhibition coming up in July of my work in Kensal Green (only a few are displayed on Flickr that are to be exhibited) - would be great to have some Flickrites there!
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Claude, from Paris, France.
I have several cemetery sets, Paris Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse
Montmartre
London Highgate Cemetery, and Florence English Cemetery
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My name is Stephanie, I'm American, but I live in SE London (for good!). I love cemeteries as they are completely dedicated to the history of the people buried there, and are such peaceful and beautiful places. Most of my photos are from the churchyard of the 13th century church in my back garden, but as soon as I get some free time I plan on branching out a bit. Loverly to be here!
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I am in London, UK and have mostly shot in Brompton Road cemetery and Nunhead cemetery. They calm me.
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Please keep signing!
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Morgan chiming in here. From the heartland of America's West... Wyoming. I suspect I feel like many of the comments posted here about cemeteries... can't quite articulate what I truly feel though. Perhaps it's the finality of a cemetery. I'm not sure. I wrote a small piece awhile back...
everydaydissidence.blogspot.com/2006/03/coming-to-halt.html
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I live in Ohio, USA and I've been facinated by cemeteries since I was a kid. I think it's because I grew up very close to this cemetery:
www.flickr.com/photos/95338188@N00/sets/72057594069160792/
and my brother and I used to visit when we were kids.
You can see the rest of my cemetery photos here:
www.flickr.com/photos/95338188@N00/sets/72057594068550809/
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I live in La Plata, Argentina. It gets hard to explain why I like cemeteries, but I can think of several reasons:
- They are "no-places", that kind of places where people won't go.
- Mystery (an irresistible factor).
- They're sometimes very poetic places.
- Sometimes they contain architectural oddities, intriguing sculptures or preserved examples of old workmanship that the surrounding city has already overriden and destroyed.
- Peacefulness, not many people around.
- They let you explore other people's wiews about death and the afterlife, or the views that people had about such issues in the past.
- They hold outdated images and symbols for you to find out and decipher.
And finally... it is a challenge to go there with a camera and try to capture all these feelings in a photograph! :)))
Nice to meet you, people! Here's a link to my cemeteries set:
www.flickr.com/photos/ultimorollo/sets/72157594165283515/
It covers two cemeteries in Argentina, the La Plata Cemetery and the "old" Mar del Plata Cemetery on Alem street.
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Hello there-
I'm Nicci and I live somewhere between Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL.
I have had a thing for cemeteries since I was a little girl. I have always found cemeteries to be peaceful, happy places. I prefer to photograph old stones, especially those with symbols and some character. Of course, statues are always a plus. With cemeteries, I say the older, the better! So much history from so many walks of life, of different eras, from different ethnic groups, and varying styles of headstones and decoration.
I have literally hundreds of cemetery photos and most can be found in cemetery sets on my 'page'.
Earliest known photgraph of myself in a cemetery, just to prove I really have been haunting the cemeteries since I was very small:
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Hi, mi name is Maria and I'm from Colombia. I love cemeteries because you can feel in the air very strange things. most of the times I feel peace, but in some graves, the energy is dense. That's what I like. Each grave has a story to tell.
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Phil. Londonish. I photograph in cemeteries because statues do as I tell them when I say 'Just hold that pose a while longer'.
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Hi I'm Nelo. I live across the harbor from New York City, in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
I really love the history and the often forgotten beauty found in our burial places. There are so many hidden gems just waiting to be seen. And I enjoy finding and sharing them.
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I'm Ian- I live in Moscow but am from London and go back there two or three times a year. I love London's Victorian cemeteries- Brompton, Nunhead, Kensal Green....Well I love Victorian things anyway. I like the incredible variety of monuments and symbolism, the way as monuments decay they take on a new life with crawling plants ,the way that you often come across a totally unexpected famous name as you are exploring, or glimpses into the histories of forgotten people.
Sadly there are few pre-revolutionary monuments in Russian cemeteries. Most people were buried with wooden markers and a lot has been destroyed. But the Soviet monuments of famous people are often extraordinarily moving. And in Russia in winter there is plenty of snow.
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Hey! I live in Norway, and the thing I like about cemeterys is the serenity, peace and the silence. When a place is so dedicated to one thing of great emotion you really feel it when you walk in. And often you can see very good artwork in the custommade gravestones.
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Hi
I'm Martin, and I live in London with my wife, Polstar. I have to admit I used to tease her when she used to go to cemeteries to take photo's etc (although I did used to end up taking photo's with her). But since my mum died suddenly in May, I've kind of seen them in a different light I think...I find the old sculptures fascinating, and I think I like just being able to wander around in the peace and quiet, and I find them quite serene. Anyway, that's me.
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Howdy
Merritt here from N.H. but soon moving to Wyo. and there are not many "old" cemeteries out there so am spending more time in them.{Looking for a plot, a spot that gets me hot}.
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i'm Eddy, living in Belgium, between Brussels and Antwerp.
Love the abondoned cemetery of Dieweg in Brussels, totally in decay where graves are overgrown by ivy and other plants. Love also the funeral symbols at the cemetery of Laken (Brussels) and Ghent and the many war graves in Flanders (World War I)
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I'm Tracey and am from a far sub of Chicago. Some of the cemeteries here are totally amazing! I have done this for years just for myself and the serenity of my own mind....... my dad started taking me to visit family graves and have been a walker ever since..... I also now contribute to www.findagrave.com/ I'm a family genealogist as well, the history and the art fasinate me!
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Sorry I am five weeks over but I just got the link. I am here in the southern Us and I like the quietness of it all. The felling of truly being alone.
Birth place Trumbull County.
Living in Hillsborough County.
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I'm Jay, and I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. I'm writing my archival studies thesis on the records created through dying, death, and memorialization.
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Thanks for the invitation! I am from Athens, Greece.
I started visiting old cemetaries and taking pictures (mostly of very old graves) a couple of years ago.
I am generally very sensitive to the whole idea of people saying goodbye to people they love. So its cemetaries and train station for me...
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Greetings
Steve from Leeds,England.
Always had a thing about photographing graveyards & cemeteries.
Got a nice selection locally from the grandiose to the country churhyard.
Steve.
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Hi my name is Jayne and i live in Bala area Wales i love visiting old church or cemeteries just to admire the work that goes into some of the sculptures does any member looking through the photo's recall if there family had anything to do with the carvings or even the inscriptions
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Hi I'm Tiff from south Louisiana. I love the unique cemeteries here and discovering which of my ancestors are in them.
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hi im cornelia From Denmark, just joined.
i like the peace in the cemeteries... eventhough lots of our cemeteries are in the middel of the city.. people wisper and birds sing loud.. i like to look at tombstones and wonder what their lifes have been like. i Feel lucky to have 3 cemeteries, one of them a really big one, within10 min on bike from my house
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I am John, I live outside of Chicago. I just noticed your group and I hope that the picures I see will transport me and i hope that my attempts will please all of you. Good Evening.
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I am Jessie Terwilliger, and I am from Beaumont California, which is in the Inland Empire of So Cal
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Hello, I am John. I live outside od Chicago, Ilinois. I have been going to cemeteries, forever reallt. We used to visit them on family vacations.
I tend to plan vacation around them now.
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Patrick in Washington, DC. I am on the board of historic Congressional Cemetery, the nation's first de facto national cemetery, celebrating its bicentennial this year (2007). Being an almost all volunteer organization, I have to wear many hats: tour guide, fund raiser, newsletter writer/editor, landscaper, site salesman, volunteer coordinator, costs analyst, and undertaker. I didn't start out with an interest in burial grounds just wanted a place to walk my dog, but man is this place interesting.
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Kenny from Woodstock, GA. I think this photo can explain better than words my attachment to cemeteries.
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I am Dollymae. I am from California. But I also lived in NYC when I went to NYU. I think that the first time I really discovered the allure & fascination of old cemeteries was in 1986, when I was studying abroad in London. Ever since then, I have had the bug, and the opportunity to photograph many famous cemeteries. These include the famous necropolis known as Colma, CA., located just south of San Francisco. It is a Tadophiles dream! As are also, the cemeteries of Brooklyn & the Bronx NYC, Savannah, Ga, & New Orleans, LA. If you are familiar with the hills of Oakland, CA, you would know that there are a couple there as well, that are chock full of lovely artwork.
My dream is to visit the Pere Lachaise in Paris, and also to document some of the peasant folk cemeteries of Mexico.... especially during the Dia De Los Muertos celebration.
Personally, I do not wish to be interred in a cemetery or mauseleum... I plan on cremation when my time comes. But I love to visit cemeteries in order to photograph the wonderful statuary & architechture, and also to accidently discover the history behind certain individuals with unusual memorials or epitaths.
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Just managed to visit the Necropolis in Glasgow - fantastic place and far too much to see in the hour and a half that we had there. I will return!
I'm from Cheshire but husband works up in Scotland during the week, hence the visit.
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wow, it's a pleasure to have found this group! i spend quite a bit of time at a cemetery here in denver, colorado. i find solace there, and happen upon some unusual and unique visuals on a regular basis.
so far, the pictures i've seen in this group are the best in all the cemetery groups i've visited. fantastic photos, all! i'm excited to be a contributor and a viewer~
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The pictures in this group are amazing. I'm Kate from Los Angeles. I like to shoot in cemeteries because the models stand still for a change and don't flash me big phony smiles.
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I'm Delina, and I live in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, USA (Corvallis). My very first memories of seeing headstones or wooden crosses was probably on the television westerns in the fifties. The Presidio in San Francisco was impressive too. Among the first 50 of so pictures I ever took (over 50 years ago) were my brothers playing croquet (which I found and posted on my Flickr site) and a cemetery at a *not quite* ghost town called Virginia City, Nevada.I had my first camera, a Kodak Brownie, and the cemetery fascinated me. Particularly the age the women died, and the little families with children who died the day they were born, or just a month or two. It was sad, but left a huge impression on me. I loved the special little wrought iron fences and gates around some of them. The ones with a little fence just seemed so pleasant to me. Learning some of the history of how hard times were during the gold and silver rush was interesting. I felt a connection with these pioneers.
Later, as a teenager, I practiced driving, where my brothers before me had practiced driving in a cemetery which was actually in Oakland, California, but many of the Piedmont teens went over there to drive. Why, because it was pretty and had gently curving roads, hardly any stop signs, and as one brother crassly put it, if you hit something you weren't going to kill anyone. Nowadays I think the cemetery is gated quite a bit. Some of the mausoleums (is that the right word) were amazingly big and impressive, some of the most famous names in the San Francisco Bay Area. I grew up thinking everybody that wasn't a pioneer in Virginia City, Nevada, got a really fine place of burial. I grew up some more and realized that I had grown up near one of the nicest around.
I did not know until about a year ago, that I practiced my driving right by the grave of the "Black Dahlia." I wouldn't have recognized her real name at that time, even if I had seen it.
I started actively hunting some of my ancestor's graves that I can't afford to go see in person, on Find a Grave. I figure what goes around comes around' so I've been helping total strangers find the ones they want to find, too. It is fun, rewarding, and they don't stay strangers long.
There is lots more, but I think I'll stop short of a novel. LOL
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Hi, I'm Susann from Houston,
What a great group! I love the serenity, beauty and the many fascinating and touching stories in cemeteries. I'm a photo volunteer for Find A Grave and it's my favorite hobby.
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hi everyone !! this is doug,from central california...i find the cemetery a place just overflowing with emotion,and i'm trying to improve on my photography while,at the same time,trying to capture the emotion of the monuments and the cutters...and i share the same opinions voiced by Nello and Morti
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My name's Dan... Anything else you wanna know, you gonna have to pay me! It is what it is!
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I"m Mary and I'm from NC in the USA. I love the peacefulness in a cemetary and some of the sculpures are beautiful...
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