As I stood there, all I could think about was how weird the situation is with a cemetery. A cemetery is where you get rid of your dead bodies. It's an area where they bury dead people. As I was standing there, I realized that six feet below me, there is a corpse, or in this case since the cemetery was so old, I don't really know how much of the corpse remained. Probably just the skeletal remains... perhaps not even that. I'm not an expert on how a body rots/decays and I don't think I ever want to be, but it was just WEIRD!
To get certain angles that I wanted, I had to lay down in different positions to snap the shot. I got some eerie feelings doing that, knowing that a body has been disposed of right below me. But then I realized... everyone is dead!! I'm in the safest place in the world!
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Check out the old writing on that grave. That's how they used to write/spell/talk. Weeeeiiiiird!
Note the odd marks and cracks in the worn-out stone.
This I found very interesting. Spring is right around the corner, and I happened to see some green grass rise above the hay-like dead grass. It looked like the green grass is trying to rise above and live, but the dead grass is swarming it and choking it back into the ground. Couldn't resist the photo.
BONUS PHOTO'S
These two photo's have no artistic value whatsoever. If you've been hanging around me long enough you know that I've been obsessed with the Moulton Residence haunting as of late. It's one of the three big three ghost legends in the Hampton area. I practically came in my pants when I saw that General Jonathan Moulton's grave stone was there. Sure there was no body AND it obviously hasn't been there for hundreds of years because of it's superb condition... but STILL... FUCKING COOL!!
These weren't even taken IN the cemetery... but VERY CLOSE to it! In these photo's is the monument of Goody Cole, a woman who was in-and-out of prison in the early days of Hampton NH in the 1600's. She had to go back-and-forth to Boston to stand trial for various things, like being accused of being a witch, and calling a woman a whore (both things were a big deal in those times). There are many stories as to how she died, but most believe that since no one could actually PROVE that she was a witch, the townspeople did not like her so they took justice into their own hands and murdered her. No one found her body. She's been haunting the area in Hampton where she used to live/probably died in ever since. In the 1930's they had a ceremony clearing her of her crimes and her status of being a witch and they were going to have a big ceremony of putting soil where they thought she died in an urn and burying it. Shortly after, Hampton received one of the biggest hurricanes they had ever had. People spot her on the road now and then wearing old clothing. I have yet to see her but one day I'll find her and we'll both do a photo-shoot together!
These ones did not come out as well as I wanted...
This one seemed good on the preview, but now that I look at it full-size on my PC... no. Depth of field is fucking awful, and totally nowhere near what I was going for.
This one would have kicked ass except I didn't position it well enough. I thought I had it so that I could see both wings clearly but I must have made some type of sudden movement. I don't know how I fucked this up...
