#gothic abbey

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Monastery of Sant Sebastià dels Gorgs, Avinyonet del Penedès, Catalonia, Spain

(Maria Rosa Ferre)

[grimogretricks]

 There was a book in my house as a child called 'Haunted Britain'. In its pages, all the 'haunted' places of Britain were described in a matter of fact way, as if, of course, ghostly grey ladies, monks and spectres and the wild hunt, demons within mine shafts, and all creatures of myth and legend, were real.  Despite the matter of fact prose, I always found the prose deeply atmospheric. Adding to that, was the heavy dark, contrasty photographs and illustrations were interpersed with the occasional page of faded, 1970s colour, shifted towards greens and blues.

 There were, among the 1970s monochrome photographs, which I still wish I could emulate, some of the classic 'ghost photos' of the Victorian age. Ruined abbeys, with ghostly monks and nuns and blurry white spectral figures, featured heavily.

 All this is to say, that I very much enjoyed seeing my photographs of Abbeys processed in this way!

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Monastery Burial-Ground Under Snow

(Caspar David Friedrich)

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Chapelle dans les Bois at Beaulieu Abbey, Haute-Amance, France

(Jeroen Taal)

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Exterior of Doberan Minster, Bad Doberan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

(Holger.Ellgaard)

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Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland

(Thomas H. Shepherd & David Roberts; Postcard from Raphael Tuck & Sons)

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Beauport Abbey, Paimpol, Brittany, France

(Sarah Hübsch/voyagesfetiches)

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Muckross Abbey, County Kerry, Ireland

(youngboyle)