photographing gravestones

[Calverley Lad]

Following on from my earlier post, have a look at the photos posted.
I am working towards my wife in the distance to locate a grave.
 Brian

[Ray T]

If you’re working towards a specific grave number, make sure you have the right one. The last time we went searching, I was working on a photocopy of a photocopy. I made my way uphill whilst my wife went in from the other end of the bramble patch. I couldn’t understand whey the layout didn’t match the plan and the grave it should have been had the wrong name so we eventually gave up. Extracting myself from the jungle, I found it, right by the path. It even had an infant’s name on the kerb we weren’t aware of!

[Calverley Lad]

I also used a map which showed the grave No's (all 3000 of them) which I had viewed on previous occasions.
But being part of a large team over a number of years we had transcribed the grave info and took photos to confirm.
 Brian 

[malijibic]

Thank you all for your tips and pointers.  Hopefully I will get some half decent photos but I will also take some photos of the church.  I now wish that I had thought to do that when there were no problems  in getting good photos of the gravestones and their inscriptions 
Diolch yn fawr

[esseco]

Nothing to say about the photographing of the gravestone - are you allowed to remove lichen from the stone, and how would you go about it. Anyone?

[hallmark]

It may not be that Illegible!


e.g.  http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/roscommon/photos/tombstones/roscommon-shankill/target2.html

If I stood directly in front of this it would be completely illegible.... go to where you can read it best!

[pipscwic]

borrowing a friend's pc to reply and using her account, (forgotten my password)
esseco   I know nothing about the rules regarding lichen on a gravestone but cleaning an old gravestone might be considered defacing it.  However I do keep my parent's gravestone clean.
hallmark  thanks for the tip, sounds simple but I would probably have stood square in front of it.
Thank you

[esseco]

Hi pipscwic,
That was my thought too.  I am trying to find a book I thought I read about it in but so far still looking.

Cheers,
Di

[DavidG02]

Nothing to say about the photographing of the gravestone - are you allowed to remove lichen from the stone, and how would you go about it. Anyone?

In a previous thread I lightly threw this up ( from Australia) and got told in no uncertain terms removing lichen is illegal in the UK