Kees' photos with the keyword: cemetery

...they’re gonna walk all over you. Perhaps there’s some fancy Eastern philosophy behind all this, but I can only relate it to a major work of the American philosopher Lee Hazlewood.

The Dutch people have spent an estimated €60,000,000 ($100,000,000) on fire-crackers and other pyrotechnics this year. Also there are left-overs from the previous year. Too much to burn on New Year’s Eve, so they have to start early... It is hard to find tranquility between Christmas and the New Year. The cemetery of my home town is not exactly a fun place to be, but far better than the rest, if you ask me.

Death is as absurd as life. We all know (though we may not like to be reminded of it): we’re born inter faeces et urinam.... –but have we really struggled all of our lives to improve upon that condition only to return to it when we lie dead and buried? In a restaurant you would ask for a better table.

The colors aren’t natural, but resulted from clicking the “effects” button in iPhoto. Sorry, it won’t happen again.

Nameless, but not forgotten.

Scan of a 6x6 negative film.

May those who died prematurely not be forgotten.

Above the entrance of the cemetery. Just in case you wouldn’t know what it is all about.

Standing on the dike along which the small village of Oostknollendam was built. The river Zaan is on the right, but can’t be seen on this picture. Its water is higher than the land behind the dike, so the cemetery is elevated, and on dike level. It is as charming as cemeteries can get: it must be a pleasure to lie buried there.

Ohne Ludwig Dürr wäre Icking wohl nie geworden, was es jetzt ist: er entdeckte das Dorf für die Welt. Er liegt begraben im kleinen Friedhof bei der alten Ickinger Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche. Without Ludwig Dürr Icking wouldn’t have been what it is now: he discovered the village for the world. He was buried in the small graveyard surrounding the old Holy-Cross-Church.