This memorial in the Dean Cemetery is to Lt John Irving, of HMS Terror, part of the doomed Franklin Expedition that sought the Northwest Passage

https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/55320790405/in/photostream/lightbox/

His body was found by US explorers & returned to Scotland

#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Ecosse #Scotland #Memorial #CelticCross #BlackAndWhitePhotography #HMSTerror #FranklinExpedition #NorthwestPassage

True Vine (In Lucem)

More original art can be viewed at Deviantart.com/peacegroover

An Irish Celtic cross for you - inspired by a visit to the Aran Islands one winter many moons ago.

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#Ireland #Art #DigitalArt #CelticCross #Irish #Landscape #LandscapeArt #AranIslands #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

from Decorative Patterns of the Ancient World, by Petrie Flinders, 1930: "Octopus" and "Cross Emblems, Pagan and Christian Age"

The book is free on the Internet Archive with over a hundred pages of blackline motifs. I would love to find a similar book with more East Asian, Islamic, or pre-Columbian designs.

https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.39205/mode/1up

#internetarchive #PublicDomain #celticcross #InsularEurope #octopus #OldBooks #design #illustration

In the 19th century, cemeteries functioned also as parks, and the most celebrated designer of parks was Frederick Law Olmsted. #MountHopeCemetery in Rochester NY is an #Olmsted classic. From a photo walk in 2014.

#BlueskyArtShow #stone #photography #cemetery #CelticCross

Celtic cross at Clonmacnoise

May 2014

#Offaly #Shannon #CelticCross #Ireland #Clonmacnoise #monochrome #blackandwhite #cross #monastery #KeltischesKreuz #Irland #Clonmacnoise #monochrom #schwarzweiss #Kreuz #Kloster

Trying B&W on more photos of Ireland. From the Clonmacnoise monastery site.

#Clonmacnoise #monastic #CelticCross #Ireland #photography #monochrome #EastCoastKin