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Category Archives: Romanticism

Midday in the garden of evil and good

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia, lends itself to moody, gothic images.

Posted bygsb03632January 1, 2022January 1, 2022Posted inarchitecture, cemeteries, photography, RomanticismTags: Bonaventure Cemetery, gothic, Jack Leigh, John Berendt, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7ii, Romanticism, Savannah GA, Sylvia Shaw JudsonLeave a comment on Midday in the garden of evil and good

Byron by way of Louisville

A Louisville mayor celebrated by a Zolnay bust and some Byronic verse.

Posted bygsb03632November 8, 2021November 8, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, autumn, cemeteries, photography, poetry, RomanticismTags: Cave Hill Cemetery, Charles D. Jacob, George Julian Zolnay, Louisville KY, Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3, Nikon Z 7iiLeave a comment on Byron by way of Louisville

Self-made Man

A fascinating knockoff of Bobbie Carlyle’s Self-made Man sculpture with a portrait head of the deceased! *Chef’s kiss*

Posted bygsb03632July 2, 2021July 2, 2021Posted inAmerican funerary portraits, cemeteries, photography, public art, RomanticismTags: Alfred Laliberté, Bobbie Carlyle, Hickory Grove Cemetery, National Gallery of Canada, Self-made Man, Waverly PA2 Comments on Self-made Man

The voyage into the afterlife

Imagery probably derived from Cole’s Voyage of Life decorates the White-bronze Miller monument in West Pittston, PA.

Posted bygsb03632June 18, 2021June 18, 2021Posted incemeteries, photography, RomanticismTags: James Smillie, Monumental Bronze Company, Thomas Cole, Viking funeral, Voyage of Life, West Pittston Cemetery, West Pittston PA, white bronzeLeave a comment on The voyage into the afterlife

Snowy Scranton

A light snow turns a mundane landscape into something more romantic.

Posted bygsb03632December 10, 2020Posted inphotography, Romanticism, Scranton2 Comments on Snowy Scranton

Red ruin

A romantic old maple pierces the air with its snapped, stunted limbs.

Posted bygsb03632September 24, 2020October 30, 2021Posted inautumn, photography, RomanticismLeave a comment on Red ruin

Marywood South

Join me for a walk around the old Scranton School for the Deaf.

Posted bygsb03632September 7, 2020September 7, 2020Posted inarchitecture, landscape architecture, Marywood, photography, Romanticism, Scranton2 Comments on Marywood South

Chesty: Seed of Loggy

Moved by the incredibly sad story of the American chestnut, I sought out and adopted a relic of one of those noble, dead, giants.

Posted bygsb03632August 12, 2020August 13, 2020Posted inphotography, poetry, Romanticism, UncategorizedTags: American chestnut, blight, ecodisaster5 Comments on Chesty: Seed of Loggy

Topples

Two photographic studies of toppled monuments.

Posted bygsb03632July 29, 2020July 30, 2020Posted incemeteries, photography, RomanticismTags: Binghamton N.Y., Spring Forest Cemetery, topples1 Comment on Topples

Old Mortality

Sir Walter Scott in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania? Well, why not?

Posted bygsb03632July 19, 2020July 22, 2020Posted incemeteries, public art, RomanticismTags: ancestry, Hollenback Cemetery, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Nachleben, Old Mortality, Philadelphia PA, Sir Walter Scott, Wilkes Barre PALeave a comment on Old Mortality

Frances Darken

Once again, breathtaking beauty is where you find it.

Posted bygsb03632July 15, 2020July 15, 2020Posted incemeteries, photography, poetry, RomanticismTags: anapests, tetrameters, trimeters, urn, Wilkes Barre City Cemetery, Wilkes Barre PA, willowLeave a comment on Frances Darken

Suggestivo

‘Suggestivo’ is the right word for this image of magnificent decay.

Posted bygsb03632July 12, 2020Posted incemeteries, Italian, RomanticismTags: Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown PALeave a comment on Suggestivo

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