City of the Dead 01 by raven_nightmares
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Canon 10D + Sigma 28-300mm Hyperzoom (at 270mm)
ISO 200 f9.5 1/180
The start of a new series...yesterday I went to Brookwood Cemetery, one of my favourite places on earth. To explain...
In the mid-nineteenth century the volume of London's dead was causing considerable public concern. So in 1850 the idea of a great metropolitan cemetery, situated in the suburbs and large enough to contain all of London's dead for an indefinite period, was promoted. The outcome was Brookwood Cemetery, the largest burial ground in the world when it was opened in 1854 by the London Necropolis & Mausoleum Company. The cemetery, which now contains almost 240,000 burials, is still privately owned and adminstered - and a draft report by the Home Office suggests that it has the potential to become a World Heritage Site.
As you can see, it's important historically. But I also feel it is important spiritually. Even people who don't believe in a God often feel peace in cemeteries. And this huge place seems to magnify this effect.
And so, if you would like, follow me on my journey around the graves, monuments and products of nature. It will probably be a long series...and the photos aren't of the highest quality...but I hope that if you stick with it, you might also be able to share in the tranquility I felt.
So, this first view is taken from the entrance, past a massive pine...through to just a small part of one of the biggest cemeteries in the world.
Comments (22)
Lary
Interesting begining!!! I like first image from your new series! I look forward for this!
Kazzy
Ok, you have whetted my appetite now!Look forward to this journey ( but WHAT to wear........)
smartgirl172
I love cemetaries a lot... They are so peaceful and I really enjoy staying there to go inside myself and let my spirit free. To your pic: The perspective is great!!!! WOW! I really like this pic!
ilutegija
well, for the beginning you let us just smell the peace... im stunned from the way you let just intuit, what is going to wait ahead if we are going to take this trip with you:) im unpatient, like a child, to see where are you going to take us! i already feel a deep peace... so, take your places in and be ready for magical journey... im ready for more for sure:)
WandM
Silent Presence... Very well done!
taavi
Waiting forward other pics too ! Its great that U will share the journey with us to the place where two different worlds meet :)
elscar
Stunning... Peaceful but not static, silent but not mute.... Feel the wind and let it take me along...
addiek
I'm one of those non-superstitious folk but I'll trail along un-sentimentally sniffing the non-plastic flowers and studying the 'products of nature'. Let's see where Nightmares leads.... Muuuuuahaha.
Mikan
Agree with that "Let's see where Nightmares leads" of addiek...nice beginning...
Eve
This is so wierd. I was planning on doing pretty much teh same thing with my a local (and huge) cemetary here. Great minds, eh Stephen?
Looking forward to seeing what else you've captured...
cynlee
this certainly makes it an anticipatory shot of just what's in the distance... hard to say if you hadn't said... should be an xcellent series, cemeteries are peaceful , i enjoy being there but won't be in one when i'm dead... :]
Michelle A.
I love cemeteries....and so I await anxiously this new series! Wonderful opening shot!
j-dwarf
nice start. let us see where the journey will end
Akinom
Wonderful beginning, Stephen! Cemetries a great places... as you said, they can give you peace. Can't wait for the next images... keep them comming!
Lalani
Wow, impressive cemetery.. I like them, especially on a dark foggy night.. ;) Wonderful shot, can't wait to see the rest =)
Kropot
This is story telling photography. I stummbeld into that, you 2? I love these english graveyards, even have books of em, and shots :) I visited highgate, there in my gallery, somewhere :) Gone follow you, step by step :)
Carly
Nice intro, kid. Very anticipatory (is that actually a word?). It makes me feel like I'm there, walking through the entrance. I used to walk my parents' dog through a cemetery, it was a pretty small one, but very very old and constructed on the incline of a valley. At the bottom winds Rosedale Valley Road, and if you watch, you can see tombstones scattered up part of the hillside. Pretty cool. I can't wait to see what else you've got in store... To the batcave!
Isabelle711
Excellent beginning, and I would love to see more. I'll be waiting for the next image. :))
Identguy
like a child looking over the edge of a wall into the world beyond. great shot.
unzy
A real good "abstract" image, I'm impatient to see that serie which promize to be great !
sheilakalajdzic
Like Cindy, I love cemetaries and find them very peaceful...actually, the small cemetary where most of my father's relatives are buried, is the one place where I feel most in touch with God. It's incredibly spiritual and peaceful. Like Cindy, I also plan on NOT being buried. Anyway, I love the simplicity of this image, as well as the subject itself. There's so much life in the "City of the Dead." Will visit more later.
Niutek
I like this 'first peak from behind a tree' very much :))) I really like cementaries too, so I'm looking forward to see the rest of this series...