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Does anyone else like cemetaries?!

I went to our local cemetary today...it's actually the first time I've been in there. I was pretty creeped out by it, to be honest. The further back you go, the older the graves get (dating as far as the early 1800s) and the more crowded and closer together they get...and the WEIRDER they get!

Finally you come to a bit where the path just ends...but the graves are still going back as far as the eye can see! Some tombstones are completely covered in moss and ivy, others have cracked or fallen right over. And it definitely has a weird feeling about it. It's on a pretty big through-road, but ten steps inside, you can't even hear the traffic.

I'll be totally honest, I got too creeped out to stay and take pictures! But I'd love to go back soon (maybe with the BF for protection) and get some pics to show all of you guys. I bet there's some great inspiration in there for tombstone building.

In the meantime, here are some pictures of the cemetary I found on Google:

York Cemetary, York, England.




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If you've got any good cemetary pictures, please share them!

I LOVE cemetery photography! There is a lot of it on Etsy (well, okay a lot of photos but not that many different photographers). I have some of mine listed in my Etsy shop as well - http://www.etsy.com/shop/CustomZombi...ion_id=6454725

We've got a really cool one here in town that was established in 1849 - The Lexington Cemetery. It is absolutely beautiful with all of the gardens, ponds, wildlife, and trees. I like to go and just wander around.

Those are great pics! Very eerie!

awesome pics!!

those are beautiful! I went to PA recently and took loads of cemetery pics but I think I only got like 1 "pretty" one. Mostly I was documenting our ancestors and also taking pics of tombstone ideas.

Im going to have to put some broken and knocked down stones in my cemetery now. There was an awful lot of them turned over/broken from weather, naughty kids and ground erosion.

My grandma told me a story of one of the naughty kids that was peeing on a tombstone and got killed by lighting.

I posted a thread a few weeks back about this Cemetery we visited this month. I always find them to be such peaceful places. The last burials took place in the 70's they're trying to conserve it.

http://s466.photobucket.com/albums/r...al%20Cemetery/

In my town there is a modern cemetery with an OLD OLD OLD cemetery attached to it. The Church was erected in 1703 (there is an even older one a couple miles away from the 1600's)

The OLD OLD OLD Cemetery have soldiers from the American Revolution buried in in. (which probably isn't too dated to you Europeans, but in America that's about as old as you can get.)

Its gated, but maybe I head there one afternoon and snap some photos and post them here. They are pretty neat.

I'm a big history buff so scoping out cemeteries is something I have always been interested in. Wondering what the people were like, who they might have met, and what they saw in their lives .. very interesting.

To be honest I have never really been creeped out by them. I remember, as a child, my grandma telling me that there were more good people in cemeteries than bad. That kind of declawed the fear.

I absolutely LOVE cemeteries! I'm afraid that I don't have any good photos, though. I went out to an abandoned cemetery to take pictures when I was younger, but unfortunately I went when it was near sundown, and with a 35 mm camera (cheap, at that), and most didn't turn out. I would love to go back someday and do it again in better light, with my digital camera, once I move back to that area. Here, our cemeteries are boring and modern. I've driven past one or two, and not seen anything striking at all.

When I lived in Springfield, IL, I lived across the street from the cemetery that President Lincoln is buried in, and I used to go walking there quite often (believe me, it was much safer than the neighborhood itself). I just find them so peaceful. I didn't own a camera at the time, so no pictures of that either, I'm afraid.

Lea32R you dont have to be creeped out by the dead, its the living that should creep you out.

Those are really great pictures everyone. Riki, I may have to order one of yours. I really love that old house that look's like it's tilting. Most of the Cemetarys around here are really modern.