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The Path Of No Returnby `kkart

Photography / Urban & Rural / Gardens, Parks & Cemeteries

Happy Halloween everybody!
This was shot this Fall at a place which I can only describe as completely surreal. Central City Cemetery is, for all intents and purposes, a true wild west cemetery...one of about 5 cemeteries from the 1800s in the immediate area. Waling in here shows the graves and headstones of many who first came to the west, most dying in the 1800s. Central City was founded 1859 during the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, and became to be known as the "Richest Square Mile on Earth." It was quite a town during it's heyday even hosting the Republican National Convention in 1871. Old gold mines lay everywhere along the mountain and hillsides and during Fall it's hillsides are engulfed in color. The cemetery? Besides being completely immersed in Aspen trees of brilliant golds, it is a place of great historic proportions. A place where you step back in time. Utterly quiet and utterly memorable. Like something out of the movie "Pale Rider".

Details: Shot on my Sony a550 using it's HDR function, processed inside Lightroom using split toned settings, final touch up done inside Photoshop.

I hope you all like it
John

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*Manouilidis Jul 25, 2012 Professional Writer

I just love this one.

~nightrose0087 Jan 28, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

amazing

~SomthingCorporate Dec 13, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I can remember walking through the Central City Cemetery with my mom when I was little. It's a shame the area was ruined by town homes. Love the picture

~Den12 Nov 12, 2011

"it's better to be in the house of mourners, than in the house of merth and merry making." Uuummm I'm pretty sure this is in the Bible, just not sure where.