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Grand Prairie Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
Shot at f/4. I used negative clarity and a curve adjustment to get this soft glow.
I was testing my JC Penney 135mm f/2.8 (with a Pentax K mount) on the Olympus Pen E-PL1. The Pen has been modified for full spectrum capture and a Neewer IR 760 filter was attached to the lens. Tripod mounted. With the 4/3rd's crop factor the lens becomes a virtual 270mm f/2.8.
A nacked women. I was impressed because I guessed it was a catholic cemetery. I was there for hours looking at all the tombs and graves. Iam interested in the "Archeology of Death". It would be great to have some statistical data of this cemetery and I was really thinking to do a research on it.
Hong Kong Cemetery (Chinese: 香港墳場; pinyin: Xiānggǎng Fénchǎng), formerly Hong Kong (Happy Valley) Cemetery and before that Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery, is one of the early Christian cemeteries in Hong Kong dating to its colonial era beginning in 1845. It is located beside the racecourse at Happy Valley, along with the Jewish Cemetery, Hindu Cemetery, Parsee Cemetery, St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery and the Muslim Cemetery. Hong Kong Cemetery contains 79 scattered Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 62 from the Second World War, which are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The Protestant Cemetery is built as a series of terraces ascending a hillside. The older graves tend to be at the bottom of the hill; those from the 1930s and 1940s are generally at the top.
On a number of occasions, remains in the Protestant Cemetery have been disinterred to make way for road developments, and have been placed in niches in an ossuary, which continues to be used for contemporary cremations. The niches provide basic information on each individual.
The cemetery is a popular place for filming movies and TV shows. The UK folk artist Johnny Flynn released a song in 2008 about the cemetery, found on the album A Larum.
Captain Ferdinand Gravert, born at Glueckstadt, Germany in 1847, became a shareholder in the cemetery in 1887.
TYPES OF GRAVES
Some sections of the Protestant Cemetery tended to be reserved for particular groups of deceased, e.g., army, navy, Hong Kong Police. There are two main categories of graves that can be found in Hong Kong Cemetery:
MILITARY GRAVES
As the name states, this category of graves for British military dead, spanned from the late 19th century until the early 1960s (when the Government of Hong Kong established another cemetery near Sai Wan for military dead in 1965). At the beginning of the colonial era, the British garrison force had the same problem as those in India: weather. Some of the members of the force could not adapt to the tropical weather of Hong Kong and died owing to tropical disease, while others fell during the Boxer Rebellion – mainly in 1900. At the time being, it is the major cemetery for military dead along with Stanley Military Cemetery
There are about 100 military graves of World War I – 79 of them are in Hong Kong Cemetery, mainly the soldiers who died in Hong Kong and Kowloon Military Hospital, which received the sick and wounded from the German-leased territory of Tsingtao, on the Shandong peninsula in north-east China. Evidence shows that most of them are naval personnel.
Before the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in 1941, Britain had sent two battalions from the Royal Scots and Middlesex Regiments to Hong Kong for garrison duty. This cemetery provides evidence of the presence of these two battalions. There are in all 62 military graves of World War II Commonwealth service personnel – mainly from the year 1941 – maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
The British force in Hong Kong used the cemetery as their burial ground until 1965. One notable military burial is Driver Joseph Hughes, a recipient of the George Cross.
There are also two monuments erected by the Royal Artillery in memory of their fallen comrades, which were later moved to the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence.
CIVILIAN GRAVES
The civilian burials in the cemetery are diverse and exemplify the social structure at the early stage of the colonial era. It is widely understood that the cemetery is for the burial of the privileged group of the society, mostly British. Notable people of that era buried in the cemetery include Sir Robert Ho Tung and his first wife, Sir Paul Chater and Sir Kai Ho. Most Christian missionaries to Hong Kong are also buried here, a notable example being Karl Friedrich August Gützlaff, a German Missionary who helped to establish Lutheran churches in Hong Kong, who is considered the first Lutheran missionary to China. Another notable missionary interred here is Henrietta Hall Shuck, the first American female missionary to China.
There are also a number of Chinese burials, all of them Christians, some of them were involved in the 1912 Xinhai Revolution, including Quai Wan Yeung, who was assassinated by the Qing Government in Hong Kong.
A number of Japanese were buried in the cemetery, mostly those who resided in Hong Kong during the early colonial era. Some of them were Christian, but most were followers of Shinto. The Japanese custom of burning incense during memorial rites led to complaints from some Westerners. As a result, a special Japanese section of the graveyard was designated.
BURIALS
Notable burials at Hong Kong Cemetery include:
Henry Fletcher Hance (1827-1886)
Wong Tape (1875–1967), merchant in Dunedin, New Zealand and member of the Urban Council, Hong Kong[3]
Samuel Cornell Plant (1866 - 1921), first to command a merchant steamer plying on the Upper Yangtze River, First Senior River Inspector for Upper Yangtze
WIKIPEDIA
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose 624 acres (253 ha) the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars. The United States Department of the Army, a component of the United States Department of Defense (DoD), controls the cemetery.
The national cemetery was established during the Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, which had been the estate of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna (Custis) Lee (a great-granddaughter of Martha Washington). The Cemetery, along with Arlington House, Memorial Drive, the Hemicycle, and the Arlington Memorial Bridge, form the Arlington National Cemetery Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in April 2014.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States. Founded after the American Revolution as the seat of government of the newly independent country, Washington was named after George Washington, first President of the United States and Founding Father. As the seat of the United States federal government and several international organizations, Washington is an important world political capital. The city is also one of the most visited cities in the world, with more than 20 million tourists annually.
The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress, and the District is therefore not a part of any state. The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria. The City of Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the District.
Washington had an estimated population of 702,455 as of July 2018, making it the 20th most populous city in the United States. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest, had a 2017 estimated population of 6.2 million residents.
All three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the District: Congress (legislative), president (executive), and the U.S. Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments, and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profit, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Human Rights Campaign, the International Finance Corporation, and the American Red Cross.
A locally elected mayor and a 13‑member council have governed the District since 1973. However, Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. D.C. residents elect a non-voting, at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives, but the District has no representation in the Senate. The District receives three electoral votes in presidential elections as permitted by the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate prior to becoming president.
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second child of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940 and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve the following year. During World War II, he commanded a series of PT boats in the Pacific theater and earned the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his service. After the war, Kennedy represented the 11th congressional district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953. He was subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate and served as the junior Senator from Massachusetts from 1953 to 1960. While in the Senate, he published his book Profiles in Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize for Biography. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy narrowly defeated Republican opponent Richard Nixon, who was the incumbent vice president. At age 43, he became the second-youngest person to serve as president, the youngest person to be elected as U.S. president, as well as the only Roman Catholic to occupy that office. He was also the first president to have served in the U.S. Navy.
Kennedy's time in office was marked by high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. He increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In April 1961, he authorized a failed joint-CIA attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. He subsequently rejected Operation Northwoods plans by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to orchestrate false flag attacks on American soil in order to gain public approval for a war against Cuba. However his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962. In October 1962, U.S. spy planes discovered that Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. Domestically, Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps and supported the civil rights movement, but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.
On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice President Lyndon Johnson automatically assumed the presidency upon Kennedy's death. Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the state crime, but he was shot to death by Jack Ruby two days later. The FBI and the Warren Commission both officially concluded that Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, but various groups challenged the findings of the Warren Report and believed that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's death, Congress enacted many of his proposals, which included the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy continues to rank highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. His personal life has also been the focus of considerable public fascination, particularly following revelations regarding his lifelong health ailments and alleged extra-marital affairs. His average approval rating of 70% is the highest of any president in Gallup's history of systematically measuring job approval.
Oysters, tens of thousands of them, and growing by hundreds, daily. Cemetery? Spot the lemons?
In the small fishing village of Cancale in Brittany, local oyster fishermen and women sell some of their catch directly to the tourists and locals walking along the promenade, to be consumed there and then, with a little bit of lemon of course. The shells get tossed over the slipway wall to the beach twenty feet below, well, the beach is twenty feet below but the top of the pile of oyster shells is only about six feet below.
Maybe I should go back there and harvest the shells for mother of pearl... hmmm.
The Walrus and The Carpenter (extract)
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--
Of cabbages--and kings--
And why the sea is boiling hot--
And whether pigs have wings."
"But wait a bit," the Oysters cried,
"Before we have our chat;
For some of us are out of breath,
And all of us are fat!"
"No hurry!" said the Carpenter.
They thanked him much for that.
"A loaf of bread," the Walrus said,
"Is what we chiefly need:
Pepper and vinegar besides
Are very good indeed--
Now if you're ready, Oysters dear,
We can begin to feed."
"But not on us!" the Oysters cried,
Turning a little blue.
"After such kindness, that would be
A dismal thing to do!"
"The night is fine," the Walrus said.
"Do you admire the view?
"It was so kind of you to come!
And you are very nice!"
The Carpenter said nothing but"
Cut us another slice:
I wish you were not quite so deaf--
I've had to ask you twice!"
"It seems a shame," the Walrus said,
"To play them such a trick,
After we've brought them out so far,
And made them trot so quick!"
The Carpenter said nothing but
"The butter's spread too thick!"
"I weep for you," the Walrus said:
"I deeply sympathize."
With sobs and tears he sorted out
Those of the largest size,
Holding his pocket-handkerchief
Before his streaming eyes.
"O Oysters," said the Carpenter,
"You've had a pleasant run!
Shall we be trotting home again?
'But answer came there none--
And this was scarcely odd, because
They'd eaten every one.
The main burial site before the inception of Oakwood was Rose Hill Cemetery, which covered 11.8 acres in the north side of the city. People became dissatisfied with Rose Hill due to inaccessibility, the lack of natural beauty and the fact that it was not easily improved. Also within a few years, the growing city would encroach into the surrounding area. Between 1841 and 1935, 10,561 burials were made and only a few were moved to other cemeteries when it closed. In the 1950's, city workers buried most of the head stones in the interest of safety. The city planners wanted to make the land into a park but that could not happen until all of the bodies were removed which would involve obtaining permission from all families of those interred. Today, Rose Hill occupies about a city block and is a barren hillside with some tombstones at the top.
American Civil War Soldiers
about Albert Rofe
Name: Albert Rofe ,
Enlistment Date: 27 Oct 1861
Enlistment Place: New York City, New York
Side Served: Union
State Served: New York
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 27 October 1861 at the age of 18.
Enlisted in Company B, 1st Mounted Rifles Regiment New York on 28 Oct 1861.
Mustered Out Company B, 1st Mounted Rifles Regiment New York on 29 Oct 1864 at Varina, VA.
Sources: 14
U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about Albert Rofe
Name: Albert Rofe
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: New York
Regiment Name: 1 N.Y. Mounted Rifles
Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, New York Mounted Rifles
Company: B
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M551 roll 120
Lawrence Family Cemetery - Louisville, Kentucky
"Susan Ann Harrison, wife of James Harrison, and relict of Benjamin Lawrence, born the 13th day of December, 1803, Died the 12th day of November, 1854. With fidelity the duties of wife and mother and friend were discharged by her and she lived and died a Christian."
The cemetery is located on the Crow Indian Reservation, inside the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
This chaple is to be found on a very special cemetery. Berlin-Grunewald Cemetery (Bornstedter Straße) is completely surrounded by railway. The only entrance is a bridge. Among others, the Ahrens family is buried here. Gustav Ahrens was a director of the Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and member of Gesellschaft der Freunde society. His brother Franz was an architect who built e. g. the Post Museum (Leipziger Straße/Wallstraße), the Arena (Berlin-Treptow) and the Tacheles (Oranienburger Straße).
Guessed at the Guess where Berlin group by gm_fdk.
Relatives gather here on particular days to feast and get drunk by the graves of their loved ones.
Sounds much better than crying over a grave to me...
Plot 56: Helen Melrose Dean – Carcinoma
James Hull Dean (62) 1937 – Tailor
James Gordon Dean (73) 1986
In Loving Memory
of
HELEN MELROSE
loved wife of
James Hull Dean
died 28th April 1927
aged 46 years.
plaque:
Also JAMES HULL DEAN
died 15th Dec. 1937
aged 64 years.
plaque:
Also their loved son
JAMES GORDON DEAN
died 1st Aug. 1986
S.B. ST. J.
DEAN. —On April 28, 1927, at the Auckland Hospital, Nellie, dearly beloved wife of James Hill Dean, aged 46 years. The funeral will leave Mr. Tongue's mortuary, Saturday, at 3.15, for Waikumete Cemetery.
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19270429.2.5
DEAN. —On December 15, at Auckland, James Hull, beloved husband of the late Helen Melrose Dean, formerly of New Lynn. Funeral will leave W. H. Tongue and Son's chapel to-day (Friday), at 11 a.m., for Waikumete.
Our world meets ghostly world.
The ghost is reluctant to touch it though..
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During a cemetery photo shoot, Austin and I found an area where the road (pavement) turned into a dirt road. So I had her pose on the pavement side in her regular outfit, then she changed into an old timey outfit and I re-shot it with her then on the dirt road side.
The thinking behind that was:
Pavement = modern, new, our world
Dirt = Old timey, ghostly side.
I merged the two together later on and created these.
Evergreen Cemetery
Both people: Austin