Prazeres Cemetery, Lisboa: Revisit

Bloody Hell!

It's half a year since i've done a post here so it is about high time to change that:

I've visited the Prazeres Cemetery in Lisboa again this October and i'd like to share some of the Pictures i've made there.

This post is all about Hourglasses since they pop up all over the place there. It begins with the entrance and they can be found nearly everywhere on this amazing cemetery.

This time i was lucky with the light since it was sunny all day. Last time it was overcast and the shadows were -in my opinion- a bit too soft.

Enough of the words:

A classic one. On top of a Crypt.

Left corner of the entrance

Note the delicacy of the bones!

The Bats have left the Bell-Tower (Quote from Bauhaus)

Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno -again-

Dear readers -or rather viewers: I'm a bit lazy with words...

I'm not growing tired about the Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa. And i've not showed you all the photos i've made there. Not by a mile.

So i'd like to show you some more, this time focused on female scuptures:

Cimitero Monumentale Torino -again-

Just a small amount of text this time since i'm focusing on the images.  I think this suits you as well..

The images this time are a bit on the black/white side but that's just an illusion. The sky on the day i took these ones was a grey sheet from horizon to horizon. And that makes everything a bit bleak and shallow. It was perfect weather for portraits since the shadows were very soft, but it was rubbish for my purposes. I hope you enjoy these ones anyway...

Arcades leading to ....

....this.

Angel under a pale grey sky

Slightly different angle.

Proof: Not Black/White images all the way!

Cimitero Monumentale Torino

This post requires an explanation because it is the hardest post i've ever done.

Last October we visited the Cimitero Monumentale Torino. On a friday. And it began to go horribly wrong...

We began to unpack our equipment but were soon stopped by a policeman who pointed at a sign (which we didn't see before). The sign clearly depicted a crossed out camera... What now? That was a situation we've never faced in Italia before. The policeman lead us to the office and the staff, however nice and friendly they were couldn't really help us.

It turned out that photography is only allowed on mondays as a part of an official guided tour. That was very unfortunate because we wouldn't be in Torino anymore on the next monday... And since it was a guided tour you don't get the time you need to take proper pictures.

So we begged and smiled a lot and lo! We were given a form to fill out and then we were handed some tags that showed that we are allowed to take pictures. The downside however was that we could only make pictures for private purpose only. No commercial use and no publishing whatsoever. And that isn't very helpful for this blog.

So the following weeks i had several conversations via email and other communication-channels and finally (with the big help of Mauro Felicori, the Head of the Economy and Promotion Department of Bologna Municipality and a personal friend of the director of the Cemetery : Mille grazie, Amico!) i got the permission to show the pictures i've made there.

Enjoy:

Riensberg Cemetery, Bremen

The Riensberg Cemetery was not the sole purpose of our visit to Bremen. Mainly it was the Ludovico Einaudi concert. But since we were there we took the opportunity to visit this beautiful cemetery. It has quite a lot of marvellous monuments, but the landscape is even more stunning. This park-like cemetery has lots of old trees (which i love on cemeteries) and there's even a beautiful lake inside the cemetery. And since Bremen is near the North Sea it even has it's own flock of seagulls.

We once again were lucky regarding the weather so we had fantastic light at the hour before sunset.

Rock'n'Roll Angel

It's all greek to me...

What a stunning piece of art! Just look at the level of detail..

Crazy colours. 

Mosaic above the crematorium. 

The crematorium.