Guardian Camera Club: James Caws on religious buildings and iconography

But they kept shouting, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" This small set of pictures of religious iconography was photographed at Melbourne General Cemetery. It was not my intended destination, but as no photography was allowed in St Patrick's, I decided to head here as I have often wanted to visit. It is a massive cemetery covering 107 acres! I spent two hours wandering around, it was fascinating. A vast proportion of the graves from the last 40 - 50 years belong to Italians and it was quite bizarre to be reading head stones written entirely in Italian whilst knowing full well I am nowhere near Italy. Graves from the late 19th and early 20th century, predominantly belong to Irish immigrants and no doubt a good proportion of Brits too. I noticed a few of the more recent graves belong to Chinese people. It's interesting how Australia's pattern of immigration can be told through head stones here. Photograph: James Caws/Flickr

But, alas, the daylight is fading, and the shadows of evening grow long Photograph: James Caws/Flickr

He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them Photograph: James Caws/Flickr

The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the LORD blows on them Photograph: James Caws/Flickr