Posting cemetery shots.
Mar 30, 2019 16:03:12 #
Jim Eads wrote:
Here is a cemetery you can photograph all day long! It is a real "Boot Hill" at Calico Ghost town near Barstow, California. It's patrons do not complain. :)
Note - Photo taken years ago with an Olympus C-4040 digital camera (4mp).
https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/C44/C44A.HTM
Note - Photo taken years ago with an Olympus C-4040 digital camera (4mp).
https://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/C44/C44A.HTM
There's a whole crap of these in northern Nevada and west into CA.
No one would care at these either.
Mar 30, 2019 16:18:34 #
"Quigley Down Under" is a great movie.
Love it. Watching it again is on my bucket list.
Made in 1990. Can't believe almost 30 years ago.
Tom Selleck has certainly had a successful career.
Magnum PI, Jesse Stone, Frank Reagan, movies, etc.
One of my favorites.
Lee
Love it. Watching it again is on my bucket list.
Made in 1990. Can't believe almost 30 years ago.
Tom Selleck has certainly had a successful career.
Magnum PI, Jesse Stone, Frank Reagan, movies, etc.
One of my favorites.
Lee
Mar 30, 2019 16:19:48 #
TuG wrote:
I agree.
There are lots of cultural reasons to not photograph Native american burial sites. Unfortunately, a big one is that the photo becomes a to do list for grave robbers looking for valuable gold or turquoise jewelry, etc.
There are lots of cultural reasons to not photograph Native american burial sites. Unfortunately, a big one is that the photo becomes a to do list for grave robbers looking for valuable gold or turquoise jewelry, etc.Photographing indian sites is absolutely NO different than photographing any culture's burial sites. It is ALL or nothing. NO group is better or more privileged than any other group.
This PC crap has gone way too far.
Mar 30, 2019 17:04:16 #
moosus wrote:
Among other things, I like taking shots in cemeter... (show quote)
Moosus,
Normally don't make comments on UHH, but I know your feeling as if you're doing something unnatural taking pictures in the cemetery. I don't feel that way anymore since getting involved with a cemetery restoration near my home. Lots of those old headstones are no longer readable, no one is around who can tell us whose grave it is. So in a way you are preserving history for future generations who may wish to do a little ancestry searching for their roots. I found out during our restoration work we have 2 Congressmen buried here. Never knew it growing up! There are websites listing cemetery's all over the US, one I use often is Find a Grave, it lists the name of the cemetery location and names of people buried there. You can join this website and post your picture by the name, which helps people doing ancestry and the picture will always be there to help preserve the information and history on the headstone.
Beach
Mar 30, 2019 19:01:18 #
There's actually a genealogical group that publishes photos of cemetaries across the country.
Mar 30, 2019 20:30:18 #
Busbum wrote:
I have to agree with the masses, as I have been taken on a tour of Cemeteries in the NYC area by a head stone setter for these cemeteries, also, went to an RV get together on Cape Cod and one of the events of one day were Stone Tracings, where they went to a cemeterie and traced the inscription and art work on the head stones, I did not participate in that event, here are some of the more famous ones;
Your photos are wonderful.When viewed,memories are conjured up,and respect is obvious.
Mar 30, 2019 21:48:06 #
Architect1776 wrote:
There's a whole crap of these in northern Nevada and west into CA.
No one would care at these either.
No one would care at these either.
I like the one at Bodie Ghost Town... just sayin'.
Mar 31, 2019 01:06:40 #
OutdoorOldie,
Thanks for the kind words, I don't post much, but read every thing pertaining to my way of thinking...
Thanks for the kind words, I don't post much, but read every thing pertaining to my way of thinking...
OutdoorOldie wrote:
Your photos are wonderful.When viewed,memories are conjured up,and respect is obvious.
Mar 31, 2019 04:51:46 #
moosus wrote:
Among other things, I like taking shots in cemeter... (show quote)
Try a cemetery when it's foggy. Amazing effects.
Mar 31, 2019 09:53:33 #
aellman wrote:
Try a cemetery when it's foggy. Amazing effects.
Or raining. I got some great shots while in Halifax of many of the gravestones of the lost souls of the Titanic disaster. And capturing pics of people with umbrellas added to the drama.
Mar 31, 2019 14:55:02 #
leenso52 wrote:
Or raining. I got some great shots while in Halifax of many of the gravestones of the lost souls of the Titanic disaster. And capturing pics of people with umbrellas added to the drama.
I wish it had been like that when we were there, must have been four or five tours at the same time.
Aug 18, 2020 01:46:40 #
My wife and I signed up as volunteers with findagrave.com in 2016. We regularly get requests for photos and grave locations at numerous cemeteries in our NE Ohio area. Commonly the cemetery officials will give us the grave site location to "fulfill the request" from the contacting party. The process with findagrave.com is pretty straight forward and often the family or friends of the deceased party will send Thank you's. Its been rewarding and a learning experience. We also commonly clean up the headstone and the area around it to make a better photo for the site.
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