The ordinary unseen is out there
World taught us the meaning of photography, the very smell of composition and the beautiful essence of lights and shadows. That teach us great insights on all aspects of photography. The black and white photos are using in for dramatic effect, but also to help create an atmosphere that is both calming and relaxing. When you look at a black and white image, you can see everything in stark detail–and yet it doesn’t distract from the overall feeling of tranquility that I’m trying to achieve. In this post, I wanted to bring you the best of the best photographs yet unseen from the ordinary. Take a look at the ordinary life from a new perspective. About the normal moments that are maybe extraordinary.
It may not be easy to create a black and white photo because we are used to seeing the world in color. Below you will find a some tips to help you master this method of photography.
These tips are simple as old wine
- The importance of lighting in black and white photography.
- There must be frontal or direct lighting.
- Back lighting or side lighting.
The black and white style allows you to create more emotional and effective images. These images are capable of opening their own imagination.
Black and white style gives a wider range of implementation. Everyone sees the world in their own way. This varied way is the right one for you. You must experiment everytime.
There’s one thing you gotta understand: your b&w world is your b&w world only.
The ordinary unseen.
Rasos Cemetery (Lithuanian: Rasų kapinės, Polish: cmentarz Na Rossie w Wilnie, Belarusian: Могілкі Росы) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. It is separated into two parts, the old and the new cemeteries, by a narrow Sukilėliai Street. The total area is 10.8 ha. Since 1990 new burials are allowed only to family graves.
The year 1769 is cited in many sources as the date when the cemetery was founded. However, some historians believe it is a typo and the real date should be 1796. On April 24, 1801 the new cemetery was consecrated. Two days later Jan Müller, the mayor of Vilnius, became the first person to be buried there. A formal document was signed in July 1801. It specified that the cemetery received 3.51 ha of land and that the cemetery will be free of charge to all city residents. It was the first cemetery in Vilnius not located next to a church.
In 1802-1807 two columbariums were built. They reached up to five stories in height and were joined at a right angle. At the end of the 19th century the columbariums began deteriorating. In between the columbariums, a neo-gothic red brick chapel was built in 1844–50. In 1888 a matching belltower was added to the chapel. At first the cemetery was surrounded by a wooden fence, but it burned down in 1812. A brick fence was rebuilt in 1820 and portions of it survive to this day.
In 1814 the cemetery was expanded as authorities bought additional land from a city resident. The addition is now known as the Hill of the Literaries (Lithuanian: Literatų kalnelis). In 1847, members of the Eastern Orthodox church opened their own cemetery next to Rasos. It was used to bury soldiers from a nearby monastery hospital and poor city residents. Therefore, it became known as the Cemetery of Orphans (Lithuanian: Našlaičių kapinės).
After World War II, the Soviet authorities demolished the right columbarium and in the 1970s razed the left columbarium. The whole necropolis was to be destroyed in the 1980s as the Soviet authorities planned a major motorway to be built directly through the cemetery. Due to a press campaign led by the Polish-language Czerwony Sztandar (Red Banner) newspaper and economic difficulties, the destruction was halted. After Lithuanian independence (1990) and the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991), Lithuanian and Polish authorities collaborated in an restoration of the cemetery.
In 1920 a war cemetery was built near the entrance for 164 Polish soldiers who fell in the city during the Polish–Soviet War and Polish–Lithuanian War. It was rebuilt in 1935–1936 by Wojciech Jastrzębowski, who also designed the tombstone where the heart of Józef Piłsudski is enshrined.
Until September 18, 1939, when the Red Army entered the city, an honorary guard of three soldiers stood there at all times. Three unknown soldiers who refused to give up their arms to the Soviets in 1939 were shot on the spot and are now buried next to Marshal Piłsudski’s heart. Part of the cemetery contains graves of Polish Home Army soldiers, who fell during the Wilno Uprising. Their graves, demolished after World War II, were rebuilt by the funds of the Republic of Poland in 1993.
Rasos cemetery during All Saints Day – 360° panorama photo
On All Saints Day (also called as Helloween from the traditional of the Celtic’s folk) people like to visit graves of their relatives or just any graveyard to light a candle or a few.
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See photos of Rasos in this travel photo gallery from Verde Wanderer. Pictures taken at 8 of May, 2016.