Amanda Norman Graveyard and Dark Photography Blog

After another successful trip to Manchester Road Cemetery, Luke and I decided to visit St Elphin’s Parish Church as Luke had never been inside.  We met a lovely man called Bob who showed us around and gave us a history lesson.  He was a lot of fun and even played the organ for us.

If you have nothing to do on a Saturday or Wednesday afternoon, go and visit St Elphin’s and ask Bob to show you around.  He even showed us the marks on the wall left from Oliver Cromwell’s canon balls.

The funniest moment was when he asked if we would like to see the crypt.  My eyes lit up at the excitement of going into a real crypt and seeing old coffins and cobwebs.  The dream of photographing such a place was in my grasp…

for a split second!

It was just a room, but at least it had the original tiled floor which made a great photograph.

To view the photographs click here….

I have two new gargoyle photographs that can be found within the gargoyle section and I’ve taken some very dark photographs of the arches located behind the round library.

Gargoyles

Manchester Photos

Further photographs from Manchester can be found at FlickR

Yesterday I had my first opportunity to play with my new Nikon 70-300mm VR lens when I spotted the gargoyles of Manchester Cathedral.

 
Click here for more images of Gargoyles and Grotesques.

Many medieval cathedrals included gargoyles and chimarae. The most famous examples are those of Notre Dame de Paris. Although most have grotesque features, the term gargoyle has come to include all types of images. Some gargoyles were depicted as monks, combinations of real animals and people, many of which were humorous. Unusual animal mixtures, or chimeras, did not act as rainspouts and are more properly called grotesques. They serve more as ornamentation, but are now synonymous with gargoyles.  [Reference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyle]

Is this art or grafiti?

Before any of you ask, no I didn’t write on the wall.  I spotted it and had to take a photograph.

Feel free to post your answers here.

I ventured into the spooky cemetery of St James again last weekend, and even found a dead magpie lying at the foot of a headstone.

If you want to see the other pictures, click here for the Spooky Liverpool photographs.