LFGSS weekly photography challenge

Still tied, just looked through the entries and voted, some great stuff.

Poll closed, all sheets revealed at https://goo.gl/uoGxZo

Congrats to @greeno this week

Congratulations @greeno :)

Good stuff.

nice one @greeno

...okay, cheers again guys, v much appreciated. I know it sounds like i'm trying to be modest, but really am surprised by that one. Thanks again and rep to everyone for entering (and well done malandro, looks like I just scraped it by one vote again). I really liked mi7rennie's but voted for shinkuu_kiss for the human element. Quite a few class ones there though...

Didn't expect to have to have a theme prepared! This week the theme will be #too_many . Interpret it as you will. Cheers all.

am also interested to know what was going on here marcom..

It looks like a graveyard clearance, no longer common, but the victorians went in for them in a big way. Entire graveyards would be cleared on a fairly regular basis, usually the gravestones would be moved to the side of the graveyard, but it looks like they chose something more interesting to do with them wherever @marcom found to take that photo.

It's all to do with space in the graveyards.

interesting, thanks...surely defies the point of a gravestone?!

MrDrem has given the explanation, however, In my words I would have said when too many a disposal is needed.

The title instead, Tidied up, was another thing. But correlated.

There are #too_many

Lots of cultures make no bones about grave reuse. I think officially in the UK it's not supposed to happen, but it still does.

If I'm correct it's a picture of the Hardy Tree at St Pancras old church. When the railway was being built, the coffins of the people buried where relocated and there was no need to move the head stones. Rather then throw them away, Tom Hardy placed the stones in a circular pattern around a tree.

This is some odd info which I'd never of know if I hadn't been assigned a uni project at that location...

That St Pancras old church feels so spooky to me, remember years ago walking back from a night out going past that church it just felt malevolent and moody...although that could have been the come down starting thinking about it !

I think you're right, it is malevolent, one of these places where obscure forces are hanging around since centuries, it is also next to the hospital, where daily sufferance can be drained down to keep the roots of it well alive.

#too_many god damn snakes on this god damn plane.

Gonna try and make this my first week.

Glad it isnt just me thinking that, there are a few places in London that have that feel Peter Ackroyd writes about a few of them in his London Biography book.

A few hundreds meters from there have a look to : Camley St natural park, London N1C 4PW another good spot...

Do you have any suggestion from the Peter Ackroyd book?

On the topic of spooky London. I recently made a film with my friend Julie, made of mainly still photographs around London (and Birmingham). It took a year and I was continually on the lookout for spooky images. No shortage in London. In fact where I ever to win this competition my subject was going to be #spooky
Film info is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5542264/
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZqjBQcGUq4

#shamelessselfpromotion

Cant remember all of them off the top of my head, but one is by the corner of Tottenham Ct road where the wind whips round and even on sunny days it's cold !

was going to be #spooky

It will be fun.

Seems my idiosyncratic/not very good photographic stylings may be starting the ball rolling this week - 'I'm not complaining'

#too_many

1 Attachment

...Miles
Andrew, spent, having ridden from his house in Sheffield to mine in Norwich on Good Friday.
Fuji X100 with some work in post as usual.
#too_many

1 Attachment

nice ! that's quite a ride good work Andrew

Records
#too_many