Church Ruin Shoot

Here's a few pictures from St. Michael's church in Pälkäne. One of the few places in Finland where people are so silly they have let the old church go to ruin ;P The ruin is in a nice condition nowadays, there's a new roof being built on top of one of the remaining rooms and the churchyard grass was neatly cut. When I was a child I used to go there and play, and back then it was in a worse state.

There were so many nice pictures that I had trouble choosing the best ones, so there's plenty!

I'm wearing the clock hand tiara I made a couple of years back and a new black feather collar. The necklace is by Lumissa's Purple Octopus. Dress is second hand, it's been hand made by someone. The corset is a black satin one by Burleska and the shoes are second hand. The eyeshadow is Deepmoss by Femme Fatale and the false lashes (that I had trouble applying, they wanted to point in all the wrong directions!) are Baby Dewdrop Lashes from Sugarpill.

This was a tricky spot to pose at, I kept scraping the top of the arch with the highest point of the tiara ;D

I had hoped to take some shots at an arched window, but the only one that's on the ground level was blocked with many layers of metal mesh that it didn't look nice. The ruin is so unstable that even if it wasn't forbidden to climb on it I wouldn't do it, you never know when I you get a rock on your head ;D

These are the stairs that I used to go up to an interior balcony. There's a gate
preventing anyone from climbing up. Back in my childhood you
could still freely go up.

This last set was taken at the fence surrounding the old churchyard. There has been a graveyard
around the church but the gravestones have been lost. Pälkäne does have a lovely old graveyard too,
right in the middle of the village, but sometimes it so grown out with weeds that it's hard to see the old
gravestones and crosses.

My hair was still curled from Lumous, I decided to get the most of it and have one last shoot before I was the curls out. After the shoot I went straight to the sauna and to swim in the lake. The best way to wash off the dust of a long festival!