Ross Bay Cemetery II
I have posted before about Ross Bay Cemetery which is located in the Fairfield neighbourhood of Victoria. You can find out more about it in those earlier posts.
This picture is from a few months ago, on a nice but chilly day when I walked through the cemetery after taking pictures on the adjacent beach, which you can see glowing through the trees in the background.
EDIT: I meant to mention that yesterday was my 250th post, and also included my 35,000th view. Thanks to all my loyal visitors, and all of the others that only come by once, or once in a while. You are all appreciated 🙂
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens. ISO100, f/13, 1/60th.
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burnt embers 
Well done, and congratulations on those post & visit numbers, ehpem!
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Thanks Laurie 🙂
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Would really like to visit this location sometime as I have the same feeling as Oneowner when in cemeteries, calmness! 😀
Congratz on the stats, well deserved!
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It is a very nice cemetery – laid out with a view to what it would be like 100 years later like the great British parks and gardens. It is very park like and peaceful and quite large as well so in the middle of it, calm is a good word.
And thanks on the stats comment. They are on one level only stats, but it sure is nice to have people visiting from all over the world on a regular basis and I could not appreciate that more than I do.
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I love the “new” country stat WordPress has in play now…it’s something I check out almost daily! 😀
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Me too!
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I love this place for photography. It seems to hold both a strong sense of drama and serenity in it. You’ve done a wonderful job with this photograph, combining both elements into one image.
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Hi Toad – thanks so much, what a great comment.
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Seems normal to me Ken. We all need oases of calm and serenity and cemeteries do seem to be such places. They don’t usually have a lot of people, and there is usually a respectful air about visitors – most of us were taught some special graveyard manners as kids – no shouting, don’t walk on the graves, that kind of thing. Manners that are missing in other settings like on the beach or in the forest. There could be more respect of nature, for instance, but maybe our societies will get there eventually..
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Sheltered in shadow
I sit in the Passing House
Looking toward light.
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Thank you Ryan! I need you providing the text for my blog 🙂 I fixed what I thought was a typo, if I am wrong and sitl was intended, let me know and I will put it back – can never be sure with poetry. Changing a letter is a bit like changing a note in a jazz piece, might well be the wrong thing to do. I am suspecting it was just a stray L, escaped perhaps from Ken’s comment below.
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No it was. Funny how the eye never sees them until after you press ‘publish!’
And I won’t blame Ken. He’s too insightful for stray letters.
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I don’t know Ryan. This post of Ken’s might have a few stray letters…
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Ha! They look controlled to me. But perhaps my lost L came from there.
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There is a peacefulness to cemetery photos that that I am attracted to. Sometimes I will go to a cemetery to shoot photos but I usually stay longer than I expect because of the calm and serenity, even when they are visually exciting. Does that seem odd?
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