Aug. 30, 2019

Summer Film Fun

Vintage. evocative and artistic or just plain junk? I leave it up to you, gentle viewer, to decide. These are the results from perfectly good, if somewhat…

by granabby

Aug. 14, 2019

Where have all the flowers gone...???

by kalanaimagery

Aug. 04, 2019

Graveyard shapes and Textures

by granabby

Aug. 01, 2019

Pretty Graveyard

We went for a bit of a car ramble and found this very pretty graveyard along the Upper Scotch Line. I later discovered that what I thought was a church was in…

by granabby

June 14, 2019

Szigliget (Hungary/Magyarország) - The village

So, I showed you around the castle (see here and here), but of course there was a village too. And a little harbour. And a war cemetery.

by bjornroose

March 25, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 6

Last part of my Campo Santo series (here's 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5). We'll move on to somewhat happier places after this one :-)

by bjornroose

March 23, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 5

by bjornroose

March 22, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 4

For more text on this graveyard (and others) I kindly refer to part 1 of this series. For more photos you can check out that part as well and this one and this…

by bjornroose

March 21, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 3

by bjornroose

March 20, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 2

by bjornroose

March 19, 2019

Gent (Flanders) - Campo Santo graveyard - part 1

I've taken you to a number of graveyards before. The Schoonselhof in Antwerp (here), Kerepesi temető in Budapest (here and here), the graveyards of Veenhuizen…

by bjornroose

Feb. 15, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

More about this site in the first post of this series. In this post more endless lines of graves, like in part two ...

by bjornroose

Feb. 14, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

What this "nécropole nationale" is all about, you can read in the first post in this series. One of the most interesting things about this graveyard is that it…

by bjornroose

Feb. 13, 2019

Ablain-Saint-Nazaire (France) - Nécropole Nationale de Notre…

This place was one of the major battlefields of World War I in Artois (France). So many people lost there lives here that the hill has been named "la colline…

by bjornroose

Feb. 05, 2019

Week 5- Conveying a Sense of Mood

For some reason, when I saw this scene, I just HAD to take a photograph of it. The Spanish moss on the old oak tree made it seem like the tree itself was…

by lamagee

Jan. 19, 2019

Schoonselhof graveyard Antwerpen (Flanders) - 2018

You may have noticed that I visit graveyards every now and then (here, here, here, here, and here). Whenever I see one in a foreign city and get the impression…

by bjornroose

Jan. 15, 2019

Warwick (England) - 2017

I had only ever heard about Warwick in the Duffy song Warwick Avenue before I started planning my work/holiday stay in England in November 2017. During that…

by bjornroose

Dec. 31, 2018

Drenthe (The Netherlands) - All kinds of everything - Part 1

In the previous posts I showed you a number of things to see in Drenthe: the hunebedden (1, 2, 3, 4 and 5), natural reserves (here, here and here), three open…

by bjornroose

Dec. 23, 2018

Veenhuizen (Drenthe, The Netherlands) - 2017

Veenhuizen is a pretty remarkable village. It is entirely constructed around a prison, offering housing, work and a final place to rest (the graveyard) to the…

by bjornroose

Dec. 03, 2018

Budapest (Hungary) - 2016 - "Random" photos - part 3

Third part of my Budapest 2016 series (here's part one and two) and the second part about the Kerepesi graveyard. All my Budapest 2016 photos are here on…

by bjornroose