Showing posts with label Cemeteries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cemeteries. Show all posts

Friday, March 11, 2011

More Time Travel part 1

Away from the aftermath of an enormous earthquake and back yet again to Ecuador 1979. Some snaps from various cemeteries around the country. Remember to click for a bigger image.


I think this funeral procession is in Quito.


There's something just odd about the concrete shade.


Acrobats entertaining the dead?

Friday, July 2, 2010

Passy Cemetery

One of the many hats that the Bureau Chief wears is Inspector of Cemeteries. In this capacity I have visited four Paris cemeteries since 2004 and have now added a fifth, Passy. It's a small cemetery in a good part of town right next to the Trocadero complex.


Although the Eiffel Tower is across the river it seems next to the cemetery from certain angles.


Habitation for the living really is right next to that for the dead.


As Madame Le Chef will testify, when the temperature reaches a certain point, the Bureau Chief is afflicted with a type of heat madness that takes the form of impatience. I neglected to get the cemetery pamphlet and so missed the graves of various notables (including Manet) but did manage to stumble on Octave Mirbeau.


Various photographers have taken this wonderful juxtaposition. This is my version.


I won't mention The Hulk. Wait, I just did.