It was very hard to try and categorise this photograph. I took it in Camperdown Graveyard, beside St Stephen’s Anglican Church: Newtown, NSW (known as one of Australia’s best Gothic Revival churches) and took great pleasure in over-exposing (via long shutter) the shot at the time. Given the subject matter, I felt the long exposure really worked well to provide a ghostly, haunting image.

Camperdown Cemetery has significance for several reasons..

Camperdown Cemetery, just one block away from King Street, Newtown, was to become significant in the life of the suburb. Between its consecration in 1849 and its closure to further sales in 1868 it saw 15,000 burials of people from all over Sydney. Of that number, approximately half were paupers buried in unmarked and often communal graves, sometimes as many as twelve in a day during a measles epidemic. Camperdown Cemetery remains, though much reduced in size, as a rare example of mid 19th century cemetery landscaping. It retains the Cemetery Lodge and huge fig tree dating from 1848, as well as a number of oak trees of the same date. It survived to become the main “greenspace” of Newtown, its large stand of trees giving it something the character of an oasis. Among the significant people buried in the cemetery are the famous exlplorer-surveyor Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Major Edmund Lockyer and Mary, Lady Jamison (the widow of the renowned colonial pioneer landowner, physician, constitutional reformer and ‘knight of the realm’, Sir John Jamison). The cemetery also holds the remains of the victims of the wreck of the Dunbar in 1857.
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It also has a rare patch of Kangaroo grass on site, which local conservation groups are working to help preserve.

Quite different from the usual shots on this site, but it’s time to spread the wings!

Unfortunately, I recently lost the stolenpixel.com website including all photographs and comments. This was one of a few images that I was able to find and restore to the site.

I took this shot of a hibiscus flower, held up against an overcast sky, with macro and flash turned on. The final effect was quite washed out and different and it worked for me.