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Welcome and Farewell & Mother, c. 2013
Kodak BW400CN
Pentax Spotmatic SP500, Vivitar 28 mm 1:2.5 wide-angle lens
Standing Stone & Funeral Wreaths 2, c. 2013
Kodak Plus-X
Pentax-MX, SMC Hoya 70-150mm 1:3.8 zoom
Luddy's Lens
Abusing Silver Oxide Since 1976.
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Very nice, Luddy!
I like the first image very much!
Thanks very much, Anton!
I’m always fascinated by cemeteries and grave stones. Great job.
Thanks so much! I love our little local cemetery, and I spend a lot of time there.
love love love cemetaries. In fact there’s one on capitol hill with a lot of character which is probably my favorite. Thanks for reminding me I need to get back there. The first one with the hands is especially effective.
There’s something about them, isn’t there? I think “resting place” is a very fitting moniker.
I also love cemeteries, you have very good work here!
Thanks, Jesus!
I really love wandering through graveyards. You find some very interesting things there. That first image looks kind of creepy to me, mostly because I think the top rose looks like a face. :) Wonderful pictures, as always.
Now that you mention it, I do see the face! Yeah, it is kind of creepy. :-)
I’ve been reading up on the meanings of different symbols on gravestones — how one symbol can mean one thing if placed this way, and something else if placed that way. It’s a whole language of its own.
That’s really fascinating. Is that in the US? I haven’t noticed too many symbols on graves. I like looking at Korean graves and deciphering them. They almost all use Chinese characters and they use them in a different way than normal, as you said a whole different gravestone language. It’s pretty cool. :)
It really is interesting how the world has used graves for communication and storytelling. I wonder how we’ll label our cryogenically frozen family members in the future? :-)
Maybe if we’re all frozen, the epitaph will all be in past and future tense (“he was a good man, and he will be again someday”).