I too love shooting in old cemeteries. Here are two images from an old farm graveyard in Salem county, NJ.
Nice, like the B&W best, it is what I usually shoot in any Cemetary, as it tends to set the mood. (actually, I always shoot in color and convert PP, the B&W setting on my camera creates too much grain)
Two cemetery shots, the shells are covering the top of a grave. This was apparently a fairly common decorative style in the late 1800's among the Cuban immigrants.
Greenwood Cemetery, St. Petersburg
Old City Cemetery, Tampa
No 1 looks like a ghost on the tombstone nearest the tree hard to make out
Hello,
I too volunteer my photography to "Find A Grave.Com"...It is a wonderful database of cemeteries. Volunteers are working all over compiling information. Some of us photograph grave stones, others collect info from the stones and create memorials, some of us do both things. Nice to hear from another volunteer.
Another important aspect of "Find A Grave" is that it is an effort to preserve some record of these deceased people and their grave markers. Many of the stones are disintegrating and have already or are becoming unreadable. By photographing them now, we are preserving some record of this!!!!
If there is anyone out there that is in the least bit interested, I highly encourage you to visit the web site and offer to answer some requests for grave stone photographs. People from all over are requesting photos and it is so rewarding to receive heartfelt thank yous from them for just a small bit of effort. Some people are unable to visit their loved ones graves and this way they have a way to pay their respects...
My motto is: "Each person is valuable in God's eyes and deserves to be remembered"...this is what drives me to help with this endeavor.
All the best,
Susie Q
Sdaupanner wrote:
My wife and I spend a few days a week doing Volunteer work for a group called Find A Grave if you are interested they need a few hundred people from all over to take photos of head stones on request from others looking for their lost family that are buried all over our fine country. We had a request from a person in Ireland for several photos and we went to the grave yard and found these graves for him so he can add the pictures to his Genealogy the pay is low and the gratification is high we do it on our dime which I guess would turn a lot of people off but others it is like an addiction. Any way I am glad to see others find a few seconds of their time to donate to the long ago past. Thank You!!!! FindAGrave.com is where you can sign up for this program who knows maybe you have relatives in a far away place that you will never get to and someone will do you the favor in return.
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A10 wrote:
This is Sand Hill Cemetery in Columbus, IN. Last burial was 1922. There are folks born in the 1770's buried there as well as Civil War vets. This had some very unique markers until vandals toppled them a couple months ago. These photos are being used to raise money for the restoration and repair of the markers.
What type of infrared photos are these? In standard IR photos the green leaves of tree would be white. I'm guessing these are not true IR pictures? Just curious.
Mike
A10
Loc: Southern Indiana
SusieQ thank you for your comments. I will check out the .com and see if there are requests in my area.
A10
Loc: Southern Indiana
Your right renomike. These were taken with a Pentax K-5 in monochrome and infrared mode. Not true IR but still has nice effects. This mode is close to Panachromatic B&W film from the "old days".
A10 wrote:
Your right renomike. These were taken with a Pentax K-5 in monochrome and infrared mode. Not true IR but still has nice effects. This mode is close to Panachromatic B&W film from the "old days".
Thanks, I was curious... I shoot IR and love the effect it produces, they look nice though.
Mike
Nice set of pictures,like the way you processed them.
Hal81
Loc: Bucks County, Pa.
hlmichel wrote:
I'd love to see some of the grave stones shot from a shorter distance.
Here is one of our local cemetery,
Dont have too much trouble in our small town. the farmers all have guns.
One more.
Dear Hal81,
These photos are really quite nice. I wish I could be there in person to read some of them....
SusieQ
Hal81 wrote:
hlmichel wrote:
I'd love to see some of the grave stones shot from a shorter distance.
Here is one of our local cemetery,
At one of the old grave yards in Manhattan, they reached the point where the markers were laid flat on the ground so that the vandals would no longer be able to knock them over. I hope it doesn't come to that where you are
wowser, thats Spooky, great shots
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