Marie, I love this idea. The blog title is terrific, just perfect. Enjoyed the posts so far. I won’t make any promises – never was much help to you with the doors blog – but this does inspire me. I have been hesitating about taking cemertary photos because I wondered if people would think its disrespectful. I don’t think it is, the dead are gone, we all will be eventually. Just wondering if you’ve ever run into anything like that.
Louz, glad you like it. I’d been thinking about doing this for some time, especially after the very positive comments I’d received each time I posted a cemetery or headstone image on Alexandria Daily Photo. Plus I observed good comments on similar type shots on others’ blogs. Turns out that this isn’t such a weird or unusual thing after all.
I haven’t had any negative comments, either online or when I was out taking these photos, because it’s not done in a disrespectful way at all.
Having spent a bit of time thinking about why this subject matter attracts us, I have some observations. It’s art, drama, curiosity, mystery and tragedy: all the elements that draw us to books and movies. There is art in the headstones and ornamentation. There’s art in some of the verse and inscriptions. Drama, curiosity, mystery and tragedy are things we may infer from the bits and pieces of clues left to us on the headstones. We are curious about our fellow man. When we see the headstone of a child, we wonder what happened, we feel the tragedy and we empathize with the parents.
There are mysteries in these headstones that we will never unravel, and in that they are irresistible.
Marie, I love this idea. The blog title is terrific, just perfect. Enjoyed the posts so far. I won’t make any promises – never was much help to you with the doors blog – but this does inspire me. I have been hesitating about taking cemertary photos because I wondered if people would think its disrespectful. I don’t think it is, the dead are gone, we all will be eventually. Just wondering if you’ve ever run into anything like that.
Comment by Louz February 7, 2007 @ 6:50 pmOh PS love the header too. The whole thing is really well conceived.
Comment by Louz February 7, 2007 @ 6:51 pmLouz, glad you like it. I’d been thinking about doing this for some time, especially after the very positive comments I’d received each time I posted a cemetery or headstone image on Alexandria Daily Photo. Plus I observed good comments on similar type shots on others’ blogs. Turns out that this isn’t such a weird or unusual thing after all.
I haven’t had any negative comments, either online or when I was out taking these photos, because it’s not done in a disrespectful way at all.
Having spent a bit of time thinking about why this subject matter attracts us, I have some observations. It’s art, drama, curiosity, mystery and tragedy: all the elements that draw us to books and movies. There is art in the headstones and ornamentation. There’s art in some of the verse and inscriptions. Drama, curiosity, mystery and tragedy are things we may infer from the bits and pieces of clues left to us on the headstones. We are curious about our fellow man. When we see the headstone of a child, we wonder what happened, we feel the tragedy and we empathize with the parents.
There are mysteries in these headstones that we will never unravel, and in that they are irresistible.
Comment by mariemcc February 8, 2007 @ 1:58 am