Memories
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Photos via Pink Neptune & Storm of The Firefly
Elysium Noir
These are some photos I made of the Südfriedhof, the largest cemetery we have here. It’s a beautiful park with many rare tree species, a lake, a crematorium that looks like a church, some cute residents and wonderful graves. It’s an amazing place to hang out and I know some people who associate some interesting things with it ;) I’ll make some better photos this year thanks to the fact that I have a real camera now (some of the photos below were made with my cell).
Ruins of the Battle of Peleliu
Peleliu is a small island that forms part of the nation of Palau in the Pacific. It’s about five hours flying time south of Japan and three hours east of the Philippines. It’s now, like the rest of Palau, beautiful, peaceful and home to more shades of blue in the sea and sky than you or your camera lens would ever have thought possible.
Blue wasn’t always the colour. Between September and November 1944, it was the site of an incredibly fierce battle between US and Japanese armed forces.
When you arrive on Peleliu, it doesn’t take long to start spotting the remains of the war. This is partly because while the US helped rebuild Peleliu (and Palau as a whole – the country only become fully independent in 1994), they just moved the civilian population from the south of the island to the north and started afresh. The south of the island and its thick jungle still contain plenty of WW2 relics.
Al Capone’s Cell
Recreation of Al Capone’s cell
No one really knows how Al Capone was able to get permission to have a phonograph, Turkish rugs and comfortable furniture in his cell. My guess is with bribes. Many many bribes. Eastern State Penitentiary was the United States’ first penitentiary, an ominous fortress of a building erected in Philadelphia in 1829. Eastern State is now a museum, and is in the same state it was found in after being abandoned. There are no plans to repair it, instead the prison is preserved in ruin.
