The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: death

In the place of death, and yews, and faded names on broken slabs, unvisited, unremembered: the birds, encouraged by the sextons who need to reassert life lest their spirits are crushed by the heavy air.

Nikon D700 + Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens made sometime between 1992 and 2003.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens. 1/30th; f/2.4; 400 ISO.

Nikon D2Xs + Tamron SP 35mm F1.8 Di VC USD lens. f/4; 1/40th. 200 ISO.

Nikon D50 and AF Zoom-Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6G lens. A fabulously lightweight kit, a bit short of wide-angle capability but very inexpensive to acquire. The D50 remains the only entry-level Nikon digital camera equipped with screw drive capability for the earlier generation of AF Nikkor lenses which lacked their own motor.

A door left ajar for the residents of The Belmont Funeral Home waiting patiently for the shroud bodies crumbling like a wedge of mousetrap cheese Tears falling for no-one in particular. It's time.

I discovered this yellowed bookmark in an old prayer book in a second hand bookshop. It records through a newspaper announcement the death of a soldier engaged in the British campaign to relieve Ladysmith in January, 1900. The Manders family lived at Castlesize, Sallins, County Kildare. Nikon D700 + Tamron SP 35mm f/1.8 Di VC lens.

Nikon D700 and Tamron AF 70-210mm f/2.8 SP LD lens.

Nikon D700 + AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens at 70mm. F/5.6. Astoundingly, ISO was 3200.

Nikon D2Xs and Micro-Nikko 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

After the morning rain, a damp afternoon in a cemetery during autumn, the season of sleep and death. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

After the morning rain, a damp afternoon in a cemetery during autumn, the season of sleep and death. Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Photographed with a Nikon D2Xs and an AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 lens.

Nikon D2Xs + Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

Nikon D2Xs with an AF Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens at 66mm. This is a splendidly cheap kit lens from the dying days of film cameras. Whilst on the subject of death, I have to observe how jolly it has become. When I was young, it was characterised by lots of stone slabs and chippings, with occasional black iron chains surrounding the grave in garlands, and the odd aluminium flower pot with holes you could get your fingers stuck in if the grown-ups lingered over-long clipping round the edges and scrubbing the birdshit off the inscription. Now it has been cheered up with brightly coloured plastic things in the shape of flowers and carriage lamps, and circular turbo fans that whizz round madly in the breeze. Adjacent to this grave there were two empty milk cartons suggesting a recent picnic. So if you feel inclined to ask, 'O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?' the answer might be in a shipment of plastic novelties sent half-way round the world in a container ship to liven up visits to the cemetery in case no flower vases are in situ, or there are no snails to be found and crunched underfoot.

Nikon D2Xs and AF-Nikkor 70-210mm f/4 zoom lens.

Nikon Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.3-5.6 G lens on a Nikon D50. f/8.