Life on the edge

[snaarman]

No. Forget that title. I need a better one..

Here, clinging to the side of a steep hill is Stoney Royd Cemetery on the edge of Halifax.

Perhaps flat land is at a premium in the Pennine valleys, so maybe that's why the Victorians opened this vertiginous edifice.



Still, I guess once you are dead you don't mind being buried on a slope..

Pete

[Benedict]

Re: Life on the edge

If my name isn't on a headstone,then I must be out taking pictures

[Ross the fiddler]

Re: Life on the edge

I'm living on the edge now (well it's steep enough anyhow) & when my time comes, my wife said she'll burn me & toss my ashes over the edge. Actually, the crematorium up the Mountains from us is in a nice place & that would be a nice gesture on her part.

I know you were only showing this in Foto Fair, but have you considered making it more contrasty (or just adjusting the curves) for this shot?



Edit: I've just thought of another title, "Stepping Off at the End of Life".

[David Morison]

Re: Life on the edge

An interesting image, showing how life in the Pennines was, and still is, very much affected by the landscape. In the Region of Asturias in Northern Spain the ground is so rocky that the dead are not buried but laid to rest in stacked stone "pigeon holes" - a curious sight when out walking in the countryside. When I go I wish my ashes to to be sprinkled on the beach at Eoligarry on Barra in the Outer Hebrides but I suspect they will just be chucked over the rose bed in the local Garden of Remembrance - but will I care?

David