I almost forgot! On my recent trip to Savannah, coming back from Tybee Island, my friend and I happened to pass by a very overgrown cemetery. As obsessed as I am, I pulled over (without said friend's permission, but she loved it nonetheless). Below I've posted a few shots that I took, hope you enjoy them!

Hi,
I'm new here. I really love this community!!
I am a Taphophile since I was in high school.
The  photos here are awesome!!

I'm a Victorian era public speaker/re-enactor, Victorian mourning being my favorite topic.
Here's my site if you would like to see photos of Victorian clothing, my cemetery photography, (Taphophilia)read articles on 19th century fashions, mourning, etc.

www.victorianalady.com

Other cool Victorian sites if I may recommend, that my best friend owns,

www.TearDropmemories.com

www.MaidensMemories.com


I would love to hear from some of you!

Victoriana Lady Lisa
www.victorianalady.com
Lisa@victorianalady.com
http://victorianateasociety.zoints.com

Current Location: PA USA
Current Mood: creative
Current Music: Phantom Of The Opera

Hi Everyone! My family has been in the cemetery business for years, they own one in Rock Island, IL. Sadly,  the pictures I have of said cemetery (Chippiannock Cemetery if you're interested) are hard copies and I lack a scanner :-(.

Instead, what I will post are some from Bonaventure Cemetery, the former home of the "Bird Girl" (since moved) from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

Enjoy!

Gorgeous cemetery in Mouzay, France.  The gates were locked, so we couldn't get in to explore.

Everyone in Brisbane knows about Toowong Cemetery, probably the most awesome cemetery on earth! lol (maybe, I don't know). It's absolutely HUGE.

 http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cemetery&near=Toowong+QLD&fb=1&cid=16098020426245601569&li=lmd&z=14&t=m

I have a few shots on my Deviantart account that I'd be more than happy to share with you all.

It's absolutely beautiful there.

http://foxxyemceelouise.deviantart.com/art/Toowong-Cemetery-2-66460321
http://foxxyemceelouise.deviantart.com/art/Toowong-Cemetery-66460110
http://foxxyemceelouise.deviantart.com/art/Lonely-Angel-66459061
http://foxxyemceelouise.deviantart.com/art/Edward-McGregor-66458808


It was an awesome day, a really, unsually hot October day though, and it took three hours to get there due to bus delays. I question whether it was worth it but I would return again soon :D

There are also alot of night tours they do now and then, that I'd love to be a part of.

Current Location: Toowong, Brisbane.

Hello, everyone. I'm PJ and new here like so many others. I'm glad to find people with the same fascination that I have for cemeteries. Who knew? Anyway, I thought I'd share a small mystery I encountered in a local, urban cemetery.

Back in June of 2005, I wound up at Woodlawn Cemetery up on 14th and Pico in Santa Monica, California. I hadn't been there in while, but I used to like to walk through the place. Not a huge cemetery, surrounded by urban blight on three of its four sides and a junior college on the fourth. But it's a beautiful place, lots of old and gnarled and interesting trees, and since it was established in 1847 it has a wide range of dates for the headstones.

Because the sun was so bright, the sky so blue, and the trees so plentiful, I got lots of shadow and light shots. Lots of poignant stories in the headstones, too. Mysteries that are nearly a century old. I doubt anyone knows the story behind them anymore, probably not even the folks that keep the cemetery records.

The next night when I was going through the pictures, I discovered another little mystery. I like to view all the pictures in super blow up, quadrant by quadrant. Partly that's because sometimes a piece of a photo will be more interesting than the entire shot; partly because I like to look for anomalies. My favorite shot was a shadow and light shot of a child's grave. And that was the beginning of the mystery:




( The small mystery. )

Hi, I'm crazywriterchic. I found this community on LJ Spotlight, and my first thought was: I didn't know there were other people who liked cemeteries!!! Lol!

My mom has taken me to cemeteries since I was a little girl to visit past relatives, specifically her father who died when she was 14. My first real encounter with the dead and graveyards--once I was old enough to understand what they were and had lost a member of my family who I was close with and knew--was when my great aunt died. I was in the fourth grade. Maybe fifth.

Three or four years later I read a quote at the very end of the first Anita Blake novel, Guilty Pleasures: "Cemeteries are for the living, not the dead." Since then, I've had a fascination with them--how we memorialize our dead, the ways we try to remember, the honor we give our dead, the ways that we try to pretend it doesn't exist. But my favorite thing to do is make up stories about the dead.

( Hannah and Missouri--my dead friends. )

Current Mood: fascinated

Hi! My name is Lindley and I'm from Virginia. As soon as I saw this on the lj spotlight I had to join. My entire life, I've lived in an antebellum home surrounded by three cemeteries. The first is a family plot, the second and Indian burial ground, and the third a civil war cemetery. The family plot was where I always went to be alone and where I felt truly at home. It was so beautiful despite its morbid past and that fascinated me.
I'll post some pics later of the family plot and some great cemeteries I found on vacation in both Rhode Island and Beaufort, NC.

Current Location: the shop
Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: Shiny Toy Guns

Hi! I saw this community on the livejournal spotlight and I just had to join, being I have over the last few years become quite enamored of cemeteries. My name is Ashley and I'm from Pennsylvania.

I used to be kind of creeped out by cemeteries as a kid; walking in them made me feel weird, like somehow the dead would reach up and grab my ankles if I walked over their graves. But a little over two years ago, my grandfather died suddenly; it was a great shock to me as well as my family. Now I find the graveyard where he is buried as a solace and somewhere that is familiar. I also enjoy the architecture there and in many other cemeteries I've been to. Something about the spirit there is comfortable to me. I feel connected to the dead, I'm more interested in them a lot of the time anyway.

Before I blab on for too long, I have for you all some pictures of my grandfather's gravestone, taken a year after his death, as well as some of some other family members nearby.
( My grandpa, in New Tripoli, Pennsylvania. )
I also was in England in June of '07 and one of the things I made it a point to do, even though my friend was a little leery of it, was to visit my favorite poet Sylvia Plath's grave in Heptonstall. I have two pictures of that.
( Sylvia's grave in Heptonstall, England. )
Hope you enjoyed these! I've really liked perusing the community:)

So, I am new here saw your community in the spotlight. Thought I'd share my pictures of the cemetery in New Orleans. Here is about 10, I have more but didn't want to overload you guys. So, I picked the ones I liked best. I also did a little Photoshop with them to make them look a little darker. After all, they are from a cemetery.

( +10 )