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There are hardly any Jews left in Marrakech - most having left in the latter half of the last century - but the old cemetary is a pretty incredible place, and the number of graves here indicate what a big community it used to be.
Here it is from above.
They are presently resodding much of the Quantico Cemetary. Here's a shot of all the removed flags that had adorned the nearby graves.
This is when I travelled to Middle-earth, this cemetary is in Gondor and Mordor is beyond those mountains. (I´m sorry, I´m just such a nerd) :P
I had taken this photograph wide open at first but the grave stone in the background was just a dark blob. Stopping down provided needed definition.
Mausoleum in the Northern Cemetary of Cairo, Egypt. The cemetary today is a necropolis, in which thousands of people are living. The estimates of their number range from 50.000 to 500.000.
This was where they used to dry out the bodies of the monks who had died in the monastery- they were all sitting round as if in a public toilet (but with no doors, and everyone is dead). When they had dried out they used to dress them up and put them in the main room. As you do.
This simple country cemetary speaks volumes to me. I remember walking among the headstones as a child while my grandfather mowed the grass. I never realized that one day he and my grandmother would be resting here. That day came. It is located about 5 miles east of Centerville, Iowa. It is not in color because there is nothing colorful about death.
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Camera info: Canon EOS 5D, EF28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, 1/200 sec at f/13, focal length 28 mm, ISO 200 Copyright 2011 Gordon Haff. Taken December 19, 2011.
This is the cemetary at Chamula. There's quite a story about it -- nag me to blog it. For now, I just want to say that those aren't new graves-- they just have a tradition of "freshening" the graves.