Not Random. Probably.
There are 64,331 interments in the National Cemetery in Santa Fe. I chose this one, more or less randomly, to photograph because I could get a good angle on the graves and flags. And the desiccated rose was nice, too.
And then it got weird: turns out that Kay Wiest was a photographer: the Kay Wiest Negative Collection (4,000 4×5 negatives) documents her work as a staff photographer at the Institute of American Indian Arts from 1964-1971.
So, maybe it wasn’t a random selection, after all.
Santa Fe National Cemetery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 5.28.2018
Posted on June 11, 2018, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, cemetery, learning to see, Leica, melinda green harvey, monochrome, new mexico, one day one image, photography, postaday, santa fe, Santa Fe National Cemetery, thoughtful seeing, travel photography. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
Amazing and wonderful. Made my day MGH! A friend and I stopped at a cemetery in Middle Tennessee though we felt we wouldn’t find anyone interesting buried there. Historically that is. Imagine our surprise to find a member of the 7th Cavalry buried there. Stone listed him as the last survivor of ” Custer’s Last Stand “. Turns out he was with one of the 2 commands not wiped out. A small technicality.
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I love finding cemetery stories! Last year we visited a tiny cemetery that was literally in the middle of a cotton field; one of the first markers we noticed said “Tommie Horrell – MURDERED.”
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Wow, that’s amazing.
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It sent a chill up my spine!
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