Gothic Landscape Photography

Cemetery and the Church...

In relations to my current unit I felt it was important to go out myself and venture for the Gothic landscape myself. I felt this would set my mood and visually give me ideas and a physical feeling of the Gothic horror. Last weekend when visiting my home town 'Swindon' in Wiltshire, I decided to take photographs of a local church and burial grounds in Swindon. The buildings are taken in Lawns Park which is in old town and the same for the church and grave yard. The day of exploring I took my I Phone out and changed the settings to black and white to give the dramatic contrast effect of colours through the monotone effect. The day was dull and the sky was completely grey which gave a very Gothic atmosphere to the grounds I was on. The sun was unseen as it was covered by a thick layer of grey, the air was ice cold and the grass was frozen on the tip. The air was wet and cold, the day couldn't of been any moodier to fulfil the setting of the cemetery. 

Old Storage/refrigerator that used to be used for storing meat and food.
Now half the door entrance is buried underground so you cant get into it.
The Unknown.

Old burial Church in Swindon with memorial writing
on the stone grave from the Victorian Era.

Overgrown and locked away, places and gates
you cant access which is overgrown with weeds
and plants.

Burial grounds. Locked away, private area. The
unknown and strange places. 

Victorian people lay.

Old flat stone graves, built on the ground. Gothic Writing and
the fear of dying young.

Cracked Stone and gothic patterns within the cold
stone. 

Church, crosses on each point of the building. Crisis

A world of Doubt. Detailed gravestone, old and crooked. 

Gothic Churches. Walking through the dead.

Abandoned building. Terror Verses Horror. 

Entrance to the Christ. 

Gothic Archtecture, shapes, the unknown. 

Victorian period gave, 19th century joint with 20th century. Overgrown.
Sexual Power.

Locked up old church. Noone can pass. 

This particular Photograph reminds me of the gate
to Miss Havishams Mansion 'Satis House'. The plants
are overgrown and stretching out clinging onto the gate.
The gate is chained up so noone can get inside. It gives a sense
of mystry and the unknown of not being permitted to walk on the grounds. 

A video collage of all of the Photographs...
http://flipagram.com/f/Q9gIUBcIs4

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