We're just back from a family vacation in Iceland (yes, it was amazing; yes, you should visit if you ever have the opportunity) and I thought I'd share some photos of the two cemeteries we visited. Instead of sharing my pictures, though, here are the shots my 6-year-old daughter took. She's getting good at taking photos and seems to have a real eye for cemetery photography in particular.
Cemetery at the
Keldur farm, Rangárvellir, south-west Iceland:
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I really like this one because the flowers cover all the identifying
information about this person. The -dottir part simply means "daughter of." |
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| The turf house can be glimpsed in the background here. |
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| And my family and I can be glimpsed in the background here. |
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Off to the left, the cemetery, which is on a hill,
gives way to a sloping field full of cows. |
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The Icelandic at the top seems to mean something like
"memory lives." I like the composition of this shot. |
Hólavallagarður cemetery in Reykjavik, which has been named one of
Europe's loveliest cemeteries:
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It looks like one of those pictures that has been desaturated
save for one highlight color. But this is what it actually looked like. I love it. |
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| Weeds poking up through two headstones. |
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Here again, the contrast between the white stones
and the bright flowers is common in this cemetery. |
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| A little bird on a headstone. |
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| A red-orange flower growing in weeds around a headstone. |
While a lot of her pictures are still blurry or poorly composed (especially her photos of people), she's getting a lot better at photography and frequently steals her dad's camera to give us an idea of what she finds interesting. And I like seeing the slight perspective shift in photos taken by a 4-foot-tall kid.
(All photos in this post carry a CC-BY-SA NC license. Feel free to use them for non-commercial purposes with full credit.)
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