Highgate Cemetery

My interest and affection for Victorian Gothic cemeteries is well documented by now, and last Sunday I had the chance to visit Highgate in North London. It really is the ultimate Gothic cemetery. I took most of these shots with a view to making them monochrome, but some worked best in colour.

Day 358

I read during the week that there's a German military cemetery about ten miles from my home, so I thought I'd go and have a look. Turns out I've ridden past it hundreds of times in the last eight years. It's a small cemetery: inconspicuous, easily missed, and silent but for the sounds of the wind and the stream that runs past it; a very peaceful resting place for the hundred and thirty four Germans buried there.

Day 310

Just flew in from London, and boy are my arms tired. Seriously though.............

I finished work reasonably early today, so I took a trip out to Brompton cemetery. My interest in cemeteries is pretty well documented by now, and this one had everything on my list: crypts, angels, catacombs, the lot! I knew straight away that it would be a monochrome image: I was in a very Bob Carlos Clark frame of mind. This is my favorite image from the day, but it was a tough call. I should have more days like today!