Category: cemeteries
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portals #1
These photos were all taken on a first-generation Sony digital camera with a resolution of 1 megapixel in New Zealand in October-December 2000. Auckland 1 unknown (rural NZ) 2-5 Hastings 1 Houhora 2 Kawakawa 3-4 Kaeo 5-6 Kohukohu 1 Mangonui 2-5 Napier 6 Paeroa 1 Paihia 2-6 Tarradale 1-2 Te Aroha 3-5 Wellington 1-2 Wellington…
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greenery
kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013
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ashes to ashes (Prague cemeteries #3)
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague’s Old Town, with its picturesque gravestones leaning drunkenly on one another, is a familiar stop on the tourist trail. The New Jewish Cemetery established in 1890, adjacent to the Christian cemeteries at Olšany, is less well known, though pilgrims do come here in search of Franz Kafka. Aside from…
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always with a smile (Prague cemeteries #2)
Established in 1680, the complex of cemeteries at Olšany, on the borders of Vinohrady and Žižkov, is the largest in the Czech Republic. According to Wikipedia “there is evidence of 230,000 people buried, 65,000 grave sites, 200 chapel graves and six columbariums in Olšany Cemeteries.” Many famous Czechs (and Slovaks) are buried here. But Prague has never…
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a beautiful garden next door to history (Prague cemeteries #1)
A post mostly for Czech and Bohemist friends Maestro! You have brought to an end a great work and are departing to eternal sleep. The Czech nation and Prague are burying you in the most sacred place, in Vyšehrad, in the most noble place … In Vyšehrad, seat of the Princess Libuše, you will talk…
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Je t’aime, moi non plus
the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002
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