Published October 27, 2010

Granary Burying Ground (Tim Wheatley/Flickr)

The soft gray light makes Tim Wheatley’s 2006 photograph of the Granary Burying Ground sufficiently spooky. The Granary is a historic graveyard, established 1660, on Tremont Street in downtown Boston. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and John Hancock are buried here.

Wheatley writes on his Flickr page:

Taken on a rainy day in Boston, Massachusetts. I constantly had to wipe the rain from my lens and was worried at the time about the lighting. I took most of the photos with a longer exposure than suggested by my camera to try to bring out the colors more and was delighted by most of the results. Was also a total rookie with photography at this point and it’s this set which probably helped teach me a lot.

This image was submitted to WBUR’s Flickr group. Submit your best shots for Halloween.