davidspahr Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 The older the better. Cemetery Entrance gates. Headstones-single or paired. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidspahr Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 Williams Chapel Cemetery Madison County, Ohio 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidspahr Posted September 9, 2021 Author Share Posted September 9, 2021 La Veta cemetery, La Veta, Colorado 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Cafferty Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 US National Cemetery, Shiloh Battlefield, TN 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgpinc Posted September 9, 2021 Share Posted September 9, 2021 One of the oldest and best cemeteries in the Bay Area is above the town of Sonoma, California. This is an old sample from there. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normanski Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Chinese cemetery Malacca, Malaysia 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidspahr Posted September 12, 2021 Author Share Posted September 12, 2021 Lindenwood Cemetery. Fort Wayne, Indiana 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Helmke Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Damn, now I’m going to have to find a country cemetery in the middle of nowhere that I stumbled on a few years back. Headstones dating from the 1770’s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted September 16, 2021 Share Posted September 16, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normanski Posted September 17, 2021 Share Posted September 17, 2021 Not that old, Death Railway cemetery and memorial- Kanchanaburi, Thailand 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericphelps Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Tumacacori Mission 5 Film Forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luis triguez Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 (edited) Edited September 26, 2021 by luis triguez 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Normanski Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Great stuff, Luis 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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robert_ante Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I have found that older tombstones often have more character. Walking through a small graveyard about 40 yrs ago with my daughter, but without camera, I found a tombstone from early %1800s that read like a novel. I don’t remember the names, so I am just using made up names: Here lies the body of Mary Smith, beloved wife of John Smith, murdered by the incompetent physician Dr. Frederick Jones. I have been back to that cemetery several times with my camera but never found it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samstevens Posted September 28, 2021 Share Posted September 28, 2021 I have found that older tombstones often have more character. I believe enough in photographers that a good one can photograph a new one and figure out a way to give it whatever character it may *seem to* inherently lack. (It’s less likely that it lacks character and more likely that its individual character hasn’t been accessed or discovered by the one encountering it or that the character being looked for is what’s expected instead of something new or surprising.) Photographing a tombstone with cute writing on it would be one thing. Making a photo with character is quite another. "You talkin' to me?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 )"Photographing a tombstone with cute writing on it would be one thing. Making a photo with character is quite another." Sam Indeed. Show us...., walk the walk, not the talk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ricochetrider Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 http://ricochetridersmotomojo.zenfolio.com/img/s/v-10/p3769831052-4.jpg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidspahr Posted October 30, 2021 Author Share Posted October 30, 2021 I look for the cemeteries that have the oldest headstones in them. 'findagrave.com' is a treasure trove. I want to, in effect, say " We haven't forgotten you, even though you have been gone for so long". That's why I especially try to find headstones and markers for veterans from times long past. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert_ante Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 )"Photographing a tombstone with cute writing on it would be one thing. Making a photo with character is quite another." Sam Indeed. Show us...., walk the walk, not the talk. Nothing wrong with either approach. I often take pictures of amusing signs, etc just because they are. Same with shop windows. During Chinese virus, a local gum store had a sign posted on door of entrance, “if you enter store wearing a mask, there will be consequences.” As G. B. Shaw noted, success in photography is about the same odds as salmon successfully going upstream and mating.. Sorry, on iPad, not computer, so can’t show pictures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochetrider Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 I've shot numerous old cemeteries and continue to find them fascinating. Not too awful far from home a friend of mine and I wanted to shoot an old barn. We drove up to the nearest house to seek permission and in speaking to the guy, he pointed acroxs the road to an old and very decrepit cemetery, saying there were some old graves in there- graves from revolutionary & civil war soldiers among others. It's in a very sad state but here are 2 shots I made with the Hasselblad. In the shot of the tombstone of the child who died aged 1 year (2nd photo), you can see the farmhouse where we talked to the farmer in the background. these would have been with the 80mm Planar lens... honestly do not recall what film I used for these, could have been an Ilford product tho don't hold me to that. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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