The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: graveyard

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens. 1/30th; f/2.4; 400 ISO.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens. f/4; 1/40th. 200 ISO.

No baptisms or weddings here. Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/250th at f/5.6; 200 ISO.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/5.6; 200 ISO. Converted to black and white.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens made sometime between 1992 and 2003. ISO 800; f/4; 1/400th; focal length 70mm (like 105mm on a full frame instrument). I lugged this heavy zoom lens some distance in the hope of getting some dramatic shots and ended up using the other lens in the bag, a 24mm f/2.8 (like a 35mm on full frame) for most of the photographs which survived the cull afterwards. Something to be learnt I think.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/80th at f/5.6; 200 ISO. Converted to black and white for an ethereal effect.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/2.8; 3200 ISO.

Photographed with a 24mm Nikkor f/2.8 AF on a Nikon D2Xs, a crop sensor camera where 24mm equates to something like 35mm on full frame. 1/125th at f/4; 400 ISO. I think the red berries are from a rowan tree.

Pressing 'z' improves the experience of seeing how a shaft of sunlight picks out detail. Nikon D2Xs at 100 ISO. Tamron 35mm f/1.8 lens at f/8. 1/160th.

Although this churchyard is generally well maintained, this broken tablet with an inscription barely legible through missing stone and erosion lies prostrate under the perimeter hedge. Nikon D2Xs + Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF lens.

After the morning rain, a damp afternoon in a cemetery during autumn, the season of sleep and death. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

After the morning rain, a damp afternoon in a cemetery during autumn, the season of sleep and death. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs with a Nikkor 200mm f/4 AI-S lens on a Nikon Teleconverter TC-16A. This combination delivers a focal length of 320mm, translating to a field of view equivalent to 480mm on a full frame SLR camera.

Nikon D2Xs with an AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens at 75mm. This is a splendidly cheap kit lens from the dying days of film cameras. They are in abundance on the secondhand market and are surprisingly capable so long as you don't bash them about. They are fabulously plastic and very light in weight.

Nikon D2Xs with an AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens at 66mm. This is a splendidly cheap kit lens from the dying days of film cameras. Whilst on the subject of death, I have to observe how jolly it has become. When I was young, it was characterised by lots of stone slabs and chippings, with occasional black iron chains surrounding the grave in garlands, and the odd aluminium flower pot with holes you could get your fingers stuck in if the grown-ups lingered over-long clipping round the edges and scrubbing the birdshit off the inscription. Now it has been cheered up with brightly coloured plastic things in the shape of flowers and carriage lamps, and circular turbo fans that whizz round madly in the breeze. Adjacent to this grave there were two empty milk cartons suggesting a recent picnic. So if you feel inclined to ask, 'O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?' the answer might be in a shipment of plastic novelties sent half-way round the world in a container ship to liven up visits to the cemetery in case no flower vases are in situ, or there are no snails to be found and crunched underfoot.

Nikon Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens on a Nikon D50. f/8.