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My friend and colleague Antanas took me to see a cemetery just outside the city centre of Vilnius.

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Travelling by bus we alighted at Šv. Apaštalų Petro ir Povilo Bažnyčia just opposite the British Embassy and then made our way to one of the sixteen cemeteries that are linked to the church (so Antanas reliably informed me).

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The purpose of the journey was for me to take photographs in the old cemetery, yes I know it is a strange place to go to take photographs but then again we photographers can be rather odd and eccentric people.

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I had my new Nikon Digital SLR D5100 at the ready when Antanas produced an old bakelite camera from his bag. It must have been 30 years old and of course took the old style film roll. As our journey through the beautiful cemetery progressed I discovered that he had three…

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