This week’s Sunday Stills Challenge was to photograph churches and grave yards. I had a lot of fun with this challenge and all of my photos were taken over the last 4 days using my Canon PowerShot SX110 IS.
1)San Ysidro Mission Church, a couple miles from home.
2)Following photos taken in an old grave yard in Cedar Crest, just down the road.
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While we were strolling through the grave yard we discovered a bone, about 11” long, beside a grave.
12)Was it animal or human?
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14)Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe, NM.
15)El Santuario de Chimayo in Chimayo, NM.
16)A curious horse beside El Santuario de Chimayo in Chimayo, NM.
So, which one is your favorite?
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I love churches and graveyards. Those stones are gorgeous! I couldn't pick a favorite.
Lisa, you have awesome pictures. I just love the first one, with the brillant blue sky.
Great series of photos ..I liked #15 the best..the perspective was great:)
Interesting stones, the bone looks like a cow leg bone and is my favorite pic..:-)
Great shots...
mine has to be the M.U.G shot, sorry made me smile.
some great great images there.
lisa all your graveyard shots have strong composition
Very well done. Horse one is my fave. He looks so calm and interested. Love them all from the point of view of no snow. lol kinda sick of white.
Terrific shots. Your part of the country offers a very different look of cemeteries and back here in the SE. Spanish churches are so beautiful. :)
I love grave yards, especially old ones. I think I would have been a bit freaked by the bone though. Most likely it's a cow bone though.
My favorite picture though is number 15; El Santuario de Chimayo. The court yard open gates.... I can only imagine the things this sanctuary has seen in it's life.
I like the one of the Virgin of Guadalupe. I want that statue!
Wonderful pictures, full of the unique character you bring to your work. I enjoyed them all, and can't pick a favorite.
I can never pick a favorite of your shots, but you are always a favorite SS visit. These are fascinating grave markers.
The old gravestones are great. I think I like Demetrio Lobato's marker the best. Is the cross behind the Virgin Mary statue made out of fencing?!
Is it Sunday already? We have one of the most famous graveyards near us in Virginia City, but I couldn't get out to take pictures since we're snowed in.
My favorites are the second one from the top and the second one from the bottom. I also like the grave that has a shelf on the tombstone for the glass.
Nice pictures and it's hard to pick just one, but I'll vote for "Monster" just because it's so intriguing.
Dan
As usual, a great selection of photos!
It looks like a horse head laying in front of Teresita's tombstone.
Monster??
I think I might even have been able to make better letters on some of those stones.
Chimayo is a beautiful, spiritual place.
Great shots, Lisa! The colours of NM always amaze me....That being said though, my favourite photo was the second one from the top, which happens to be one of the black and whites!
Great selection! The old churches and graveyards of New Mexico are some of my favorite, and your photos have captured them well. You can see some of the Southwest and Hispanic influence in the ones I shot as well.
Well done! I like #9 because it has an ethereal quality to it.
Those are some pretty cools shots of the gravesstones. I really like number 2, but of course I also like the horse one.
The first black and white one and the b&w with the bone and the cross shadow!
The angle and light in fifteen, I think, is my favorite. If I look again, I will find another!
I always love the southwestern influence in your shots. #15...I want to walk through those doors and explore...love that shot!
They are all wonderful, but the bone with the shadow of the cross is intriguing. You live in a beautiful place!
Wonderful post! I find old graveyards fascinating! I really like #15...beautiful shot and it makes me want to walk into the courtyard and sit for a spell!
i always like the old gravestones where you can hardly tell what they say anymore.
- The Equestrian Vagabond
All great shots. I like the second one best, nice composition!
Creepy and beautiful at the same time! Some of those tombstones are so elaborate!!
It's too hard to pick a favorite. I've always been interested in old graveyards and stones. The church architecture is wonderful too.
Hope that's an animal bone otherwise it would be too creepy in the graveyard.
Very intersting subject...makes for great photos!!!
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