Jan. 08, 2020

Ulverston graveyard 1

A visit to a graveyard can tell you so much about your communities history and its tragedies Private Harry Ainsworth was 20 when he was killed just three weeks…

by shaun741

Dec. 05, 2019

Remagen (Deutschland/Germany) - part 2

More about the well known bridge of Remagen in the previous post. Remagen however became known too as one of the prisoners camps built by the US to "house"…

by bjornroose

Nov. 20, 2019

Bonn (Deutschland/Germany) - Godesburg

The Godesburg is a castle in Bad Godesberg, a municipality that has become part of Bonn in 1969. My best friend Patrick had advised me a visit to the castle:…

by bjornroose

Nov. 12, 2019

Cemetery Things

Recently, I picked up a new lens for my Sony A600 digital camera; a 50mm F1.8 OSS Portrait Lens. As with any new piece of equipment, I wanted to become as…

by phantasmdigital

Oct. 07, 2019

Salzburg (Österreich/Austria) - Sankt Peter Friedhof

In this post I asked (rhetorically, let's be clear on that) what's a city without a castle ? I could of course ask the same question about a city without a…

by bjornroose

Sept. 21, 2019

Nagyvázsony (Magyarország/Hungary) - Graveyard, church and…

Okay, honestly, we didn't start our visit to Nagyvázsony (Hungary) with the graveyard (you might think I'm a little overdoing it after the tumuli earlier this…

by bjornroose

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