Pictures Just Pictures: SKULL AND CROSSED BONES ON TOMB

Monday, August 3, 2009

SKULL AND CROSSED BONES ON TOMB

Lucy Corrander - PIctures Just Pictures - Skull and Crossed Bones on Tomb - July 28th 2009

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13 comments:

Hermes said...: I rather enjoy photographing tomb stones but I've never achieved the depth of relief you got here. Great photo.; August 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Lucy Corrander said...: Of course, I'm wondering if it's a pirate grave!

Lucy; August 3, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Hermes said...: Nice idea Lucy, but unfortunately quite a common symbol of mortality.

http://www.graveaddiction.com/symbol.html; August 3, 2009 at 1:15 PM
Janet, The Queen of Seaford said...: Great photo Lucy. I think cemeteries are interesting places to explore. Have a few tomb rubbings from a cathedral.; August 3, 2009 at 1:47 PM
Dot O said...: Great photo. I too thought it may be a pirate grave but then saw Hermes comment.

I've only photographed in a cemetery once and that was in Nova Scotia where the victims of the Titanic were buried. I have photos but they are film photos and not digital and they are not nearly as terrific as this shot.; August 3, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Hermes said...: Dot that is absolutely fascinating. My partners grandfather was on one of the ships that raced to the rescue odf the Titanic.

There is a list of burials here:
http://titanic.gov.ns.ca/graves.html

and a great shot of the graves:

http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1506696504030897960JIMEqU

but I for one would love to see your photos if you could scan them and post them somewhere.; August 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM
Gordon Mason said...: Great image. Zygomatic!

And that's not a quote from Grease!; August 3, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Unknown said...: Hey Lucy,
Very cool, it almost looks like it was taken underwater where it had been for years. Nice!; August 3, 2009 at 11:49 PM
Lucy Corrander said...: Hello Janet - The graveyard where I took the skull and crossed bones photo is a very lovely, no-longer used one in woods, on a cliff, high above the sea, next to (and, partly within) the ruins of a mediaeval church below the remains of William Rufus' (Norman) Castle which is even higher up the cliff. Couldn't get much better than that, could you?; August 4, 2009 at 7:14 AM
Lucy Corrander said...: Hello Dot - The skull and crossed bones are on one end of a very grand table tomb. I'm not sure how grand pirates ever were but there used to be some pretty grand smugglers round here. I think we are able to release our imaginations to some degree when looking at images like this and I don't want to let go of the idea that there is interesting history here either. I'll have to go back and see what I can work out from the weathered lettering on the side.

Lucy; August 4, 2009 at 7:18 AM
Lucy Corrander said...: Hermes - I agree. Dot's photos of the Titanic Cemetery would be really interesting to see. DOT - we're saying PLEASE, very loudly, across the Atlsantic.

Lucy; August 4, 2009 at 7:20 AM
Lucy Corrander said...: Gordon - very humerus, as usual!

Lucy; August 4, 2009 at 7:21 AM
Lucy Corrander said...: Cindi, it's the green-ness which makes it look as if it has been under water. I suppose it has, in a way, standing there for a couple of hundred years with rain dripping on it from over-hanging trees.

Lucy; August 4, 2009 at 7:24 AM