We’re excited about this week’s photo challenge, near and far, and hope it inspires you to play with perspective, which can give sweeping images of beautiful locations more oomph and power. Perspective is what makes a flat two-dimensional image, such as a photograph, appear like it is three-dimensional. To create this effect, you can use features like diagonal lines, which converge within the frame and literally suck in the viewer.
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In this photo, the cemetery of the Congregation of Mission House Saint Franciscus Xaverius in Teteringen, The Netherlands. The cemetery is now integrated in a golf course, weird but fitting. The atmosphere is subdued and very quiet.
I was triggered by the rows of crosses, leading up to the big cross at the far end of these fathers’ last resting place.
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Hi Marion
I’ve nominated you for the “One Lovely Blog” award. You can check out the rules here should you wish to participate (although I’ve altered them to suit my own intentions): http://hughmannbeing.wordpress.com/2012/09/24/gifting-and-gifthorses/
I look forward to reading your posts and appreciate being able to catch snippets of how you see and experience life. I realise that not all of you will want to add this award to your blogs. That is okay. I am nominating you anyway, and I have opted to do so because the intention behind my nominations is to recognise contributions that I find admirable, coupled with my desire to share your awesomeness with others. So, accept it or not, there are no obligations or hard feelings either. More than anything else, I would simply like to thank you.
Be happy and well,
HughMann
Dear Hugh,
First of all: congratulations on the ‘One Lovely Blog Award’. I’m thrilled to see you ‘decorated’ like this. And what a thoughtful post you wrote, overflowing with kindness and sensitivity.
Thank you so very much for nominating my blog Figments of a DuTchess! I am very honored and smiling from ear to ear. Your words mean so much to me.
Alas I can’t accept the award, but do know that the nomination is appreciated with all my heart. I will stay in touch and we can share many beautiful things.
Warmest regards,
Marion
This photo is absolutely stunning. I love the contrast of all of the smaller black crosses in the foreground against the big white cross in the background – almost symbolic of life and death. This truly is a work of art and I applaud you. Thank you for sharing this photo with us!
Life leading to death, or death leading to eternal life…
I loved reading your comment, Hugh. Thank you so much.
Very good perspective.
Thank you, Hitesh.
Great shot for the theme, Marion. Interesting to have a golf course around a cemetery.
“Old golfers never die, they just lose their drive.”
Hehehe, thanks for that grin.
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This is an excellent shot. Marion!
That is what I love about participating in the Weekly Photo Challenge: you never know when a specific photo is just the right one. Even out-of-focus photos might be the perfect choice.
For a moment to be lost to the world, immersed in the past…
Thanks so much for visiting, and have a lovely weekend.
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A lovely, poignant image!
Thank you kindly!
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Hi Marion. This is indeed a perfect interpretation of the challenge. Graveyards often have a powerful sense to it, dont they? You’ve captured its otherworldly vibe.
Thanks, Myra! And yes, they do. Just to be quiet and roam there for a long time, strolling from one ancient grave to the next, trying to recapture something that has been, was what I loved in England. While my partner waited and waited
Beautiful. I love that the crosses in the foreground are black the large one in the background is white…lovely shot…
Thank you
I just hope someone still visits these graves. They seemed so lonely, so uniform.
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Marion, can you give me again the name of the song you suggested yesterday? I will you tube it
Blackmore’s Night – Ghost of a Rose.
I am listening to it right now, and loving it. Thank you dear Marion. I trust you had a wonderful bike trip today.
Good night hug.
Though we didn’t arrive at our destiny -my V-man entered the wrong place into the Garmin, ROFL – we had a nice ride. Five motor bikes, six friends. And the weather was fantastic!
Have a great evening x
Tomorrow I want to see the pics, and read your story about the food you had pleeease
Good night Marion x
P.S. How did you know I would like it?
I don’t know, I just hoped/knew
Thanks for listening.
What an amazing thought! Golf in a cemetry!!
Perhaps I didn’t explain it well enough, sorry, Nuvofelt: the golf is played AROUND the cemetery, not in between the graves. That would be very morbid indeed.
Aha! My mistake, I understand now. Thanks for clarifying. I like the symmetry, good entry
This is really well taken Marion … not my favourite subject though… come to think of it, this could work perfectly for Marianne’s monthly challenge “repetition”
I love the ancient English graveyards, where the tombstones are centuries old. This scene spoke to me because of the straight lines.
Who is Marianne, and in what way does she challenge bloggers?
Can you come to my blog, scroll all the way down to the footer area, there you’ll see a logo of a white rabbit, click on it and you’ll see. She challenged me for the looking up theme, when I posted that crazy mushroom
Ah thanks, Paula. Repetition… I do have a couple of photos that would be suited for that challenge. Hmmm. Will save the url, thanks
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Lovely shot
Thanks, Britten
This is a good picture for this challenge. The instructions said to try to get lines. There are lots of lines in this. I like it.
I’m glad to hear that, Connie.
It’s a lovely photo. Golf among the dead? Well, why not. I guess the dead won’t complain.
Thank you, Cardinal. The golf is played around the cemetery, so the dead are not disturbed.
They wouldn’t notice anything anyway
I will not start about a hand that rises up to catch a stray golf ball. No, I will not!
I have no idea, perhaps because you know both of us?
Beautiful, although somewhat eerie photograph. I guess they were trying to keep wild swing golf ball accidents down by integrating the golf course there – damage has already been done.
Al those fathers, lying in straight lines with identical crosses. I prefer a different kind of graveyard, more personal.
The photo is kind of eerie, you are right.