Old Cemetery

[armando_m]

An old cemetery, called "Panteón de Belén" rigth in downtown Guadalajara México, used today as tourist attraction

From wikipedia:
In 1737, the Spanish crown requested to the Oidor Marqués de Altamira Don Juan Rodríguez de Albuerne, information about the number of patients at the Betlemitas Hospital. On March 8, 1751, the crown granted permission to relocate the Hospital. King Ferdinand VI requested the blueprints and granted funds to build a new Hospital.
On May 3, 1793 the Hospital of Belén was inaugurated.
After the Independence War, Guadalajara faced a large number of famines and epidemic diseases like in 1833. Cholera killed a large percentage of the population.
Guadalajara required a new Cemetery outside the populated areas. The gardens closer to the Hospital were used to build the cemetery , that's why it is known as "Panteon de Belen".
The cemetery was projected by the architect Manuel Gómez Ibarra in 1848.
He also designed the Guadalajara Cathedral towers.
The Panteón de Belén was closed in October 1896.


OK some pictures ...

There 2 large identical corridors, here is the one by the entrance:
D300 50mm f/1.8 AFS 1/40 f/5.6 ISO 200


other side of the corridor :


The most prominent tomb located right in the middle
2 horizontal photos stitched
Tokina 11-16 @11mm


Inside the tomb


Corner of the two corridors


Processed with lightroom4, it is amazing the recovery of shadows possible with this software, the photo from inside the tomb I exposed for the outside and easily recovered the detail inside, I'm really pleased I decided to get LR4, also my processing time is way faster than with Capture nx2

Thanks for looking :thumbsup:

[Vikinguy]

Wow...really cool captures!

[armando_m]

Thanks for the comment

[Greg McCary]

Nice shots Armando. I hesitate to get LR4 i tried the beta version and it was very slow.

[Frog]

Doesn't look like any cemetaries around here.
Nice shots

[armando_m]

Thanks for the comments,

Frog, I think I have a shot of the typical looking tombstones, I did focus on the different

[hminx]

Impressive place nicely portrayed armando
With my wive's genealogy studies I get to spend a bit of time in cemeteries here and in the UK, but nothing seen quite like this

[f86sabjf]

wow great shots !! I love all the contrasts and shadows