[Novikov-Vodkin]

Let's post creepy or artsy cemetary pictures. You've already seen mine. I might try to post some more. May be you have non-cemetary creepy pictures, pos'em too. let's have fun.

[Violet]

Let's post creepy or artsy cemetary pictures. You've already seen mine. I might try to post some more. May be you have non-cemetary creepy pictures, pos'em too. let's have fun.

U R 2 funny NV. i have a friend who adores halloween too. although i think it's because of the candy.

[Novikov-Vodkin]

U R 2 funny NV. i have a friend who adores halloween too. although i think it's because of the candy.

I love the ghost stories as long as I remember myself. We never had horror movies in USSR when I was growing up either. They became available in the 90-s and I LOVED them! Can't handle them now though.

Candies are good too.

[Novikov-Vodkin]

OK ppl, here are some new cem pics "trick or treat"



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post yours everybody

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[Squirrel]

NV those are wonderful pictures. The 5th one makes me feel like you feel when you lay your head on a kid's chest and let them pretend to be the adult. Try it. It's a nice feeling. SQ

I'm still looking for my cemetery pics. They aren't digital so I have to sift thru thousands of photos. SQ

[Novikov-Vodkin]

SQ, You are right about sending something to the universe - I have deleted the post and apologise. That was pretty insensetive joke on my part.

[Squirrel]

Don't even put that in the universe. Absolutely no untoward intent. Just a loving mother and a well adjusted, secure daughter. She lives next door to us. SQ

[Novikov-Vodkin]

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[LilVixen27]

I would really like to go in on this but we dont have cool Cemetarys like this... ours are all flat stones.... no fun NEW ORLEANS I want to go!!!! Anyone ever been?? Have you seen the Cemetarys there..... Not pics I took myself

[Novikov-Vodkin]

LV that looks like a pretty interesting cemetary you've got there. # 3 was my favorite (the first two were a bit too small to get all the dets.). It's like a whole street. I've never been to a Spanish or Mexican cemetary, but my understanding that they almsot looks like miniature towns, because of mausoleums.

There is a story I've heard about how in Spain during WWII a whole city was saved by a cemetary. Now, I don't remember all of the details, but supposedly the Luftwaffe would strike cities at night. Cities though would do black outs after dark. One night was some sort of religeous holly day on which people went to a cemetary (which looked like a miniature city because of the mausoleums) and lit oil lamps and candles for the dead. Germans mistaken the cemetary for the city and bombed it - the real city was spared. At least that night. I think that's how the story went.

We don't have whole alot of mausoleums. LV I know in our area Italian part of cemetaries have many statues. I have noticed that in our cemetaries withought Italian names you will rearely find statues of angels and stuff. Manely head stones.

[Squirrel]

Here's one of my cemetery pictures. I'll have to scan the rest. I have one of a nun's cemetery. It really speaks to me. I think I must have been one in another life..... NOT!!! SQ



LV, those are cool photos. SQ

[Novikov-Vodkin]

Nice photo. What's hanging from the trees?

[Squirrel]

Ghosts

[Bob]

Ghosts

I really like pictures of cemeteries, Some people look at you a bit strange if they see you walking around grave yards taking shots, but what the hell. If they took the time to know me then they would know it for sure, that I am a bit off the beaten track. But getting back to the cemeteries I really think that they hold a sort of mixture of art, love, pain, sadness, memorial, and of course they have that spooky side. It's great stuff to work with, nothing like waiting for a storm to roll in while you lay on the ground align up the head stones to the backdrop of the clouds. Same thing with churches, all that gothic architecture - wrought iron - stone - and stained glass windows. molding statues of angels covered in moss. Graves collapsing in with age, dead flowers by a head stone and the old ornate rusting gate hanging off its hinge's. Where I live in South Australia we had a large variety of different ethnic groups settle here in the early colonial days and each brought with them there own form of religion which reflects in the architecture of there churches and the grave yards. Adelaide our state Capital is actually known as the city of churches because of this. Not because we are all that religious, If one of our local footy teams is playing a home game they don't bother opening the doors. Well that was a bit of a long winded way of saying I liked the pictures. Bob.

[Novikov-Vodkin]

Hi Bob,

Welcome to the forum and very interesting post. What kind of art do you do? Do you have a website or can you post images? We'd love to see.

NV

[Squirrel]

Bob, you "painted" us a very cool picture. Also gave some good angles to think about shooting from. I live in South Georgia. The cemetaries are very bland here. Although I go to Florida a lot where there is a lot of moss and old cemeteries. Show us your work. SQ

[Bob]

Hi Bob,

Welcome to the forum and very interesting post. What kind of art do you do? Do you have a website or can you post images? We'd love to see.

NV

In response to.Novikov-Vodkin and Squirrel
Thank you very much for your interest in what I had to say on this topic, and I am sorry about the time it has taken for me to respond. But I had to think about this for a while. This, I guess should be explained. I have for some time been putting together a composition of photos for an exhibit that I am intending to call , "Death in Australia." Sounds awful." But this has been a long time in the making, a full explanation is going to be hard to explain in a simple posting. I will start with indigenous law. Within the exhibit their is a photo of a native skeleton half exposed in a sand drift. Australian law requires that a warning to indigenous people must be displayed at the beginning of any programme that may depict deceased decedents of indigenous Australians as it may be offensive or upsetting to their culture or beliefs.
As for an art exhibition, the line becomes very blurred.
Another encounter is the grave of an infant child that claims (on the head stone) to be the second white child to have died in the territory,"as it was known then prior to becoming a state", As this child is a direct descendent of a current political identity ( that lays in the unkept grave within the grounds of a none functioning church and is of little known existence to historians) and is not to my knowledge not heritage listed as such. Oh! the problems that an artist faces today ( suppressed by law ) even political correctness and all I see, even on this site. Questions like What happened to the rebels? My answer . Who of us can afford it. Bob.

[Novikov-Vodkin]

wow bob

[Thaibebop]

Nice post Bob, and good luck.

I need to get some photos of this place in my hometown. A vast cemetery that one could get lost in, complete with abandoned church.

Great place!!

[Albert77]

U R 2 funny NV. i have a friend who adores halloween too. although i think it's because of the candy.

And I love science fiction very much. It's Very interestingly, informative. In these histories there is more than truth, than in simple horrors. In horrors one fear and is more than anything interesting.

[JoSBradley]

Halloween is my third favorite holiday. I love the chance to dress up and get candy. I used to go out with friends and hang out one Halloween. We'd take pictures and do a lot fun things. I'm not sure where those pictures are, but I know we went to a cemetery or two each year for close to five years. I'll see if I can scrounge some up by this Halloween.