After leaving downtown, I continued with the walkthrough of Chur, Switzerland. Moving southeast and gaining elevation, I happened upon the most breathtaking cemetery I’ve seen. I don’t often take pictures in cemeteries, but I felt compelled to capture some images here.

These scenes were next to a church — not the one I featured a couple of days ago; that was St. Martin’s, according to Google Maps. I was way past that and continued up cobblestone stairs, narrow roads, and through a residential district.

I had reached Saint Mary of the Assumption Cathedral, and the tower’s design differs significantly from St. Martin’s triangularly-shaped pointy roof.

You can mistake the space for a manicured yard, except you see headstones along the periphery. Not to be morbid, but it looks like a wonderful place to be interred for life. Before that happens, it might be even nicer to live in Chur, where scenic landscapes and architecture abound.

Here’s one more picture facing the opposite way. It’s a cozier area surrounded by architecture and pretty flowers. You see another mountain in the distance, one of many surrounding the city.

You may know you can hover over the pictures with a mouse to see the exposure details, including the camera and lens I used. I took some of these pictures with an extreme -3ev exposure compensation. That was so I didn’t blow out the details in the clouds. The foreground cemetery appeared nearly black until I lifted the shadows in post-processing. In the past, I needed multiple exposures and HDR techniques to capture dynamic scenes like this. Modern cameras and proper techniques make it a lot easier now.

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