Category Archives: Cemetery
March 2
There’s something about cemeteries, I guess, that attracts photographers. You can probably draw several conclusions about this, and probably all of your conclusions would be correct.
And, so, here’s a scene from the San Jose Cemetery, as a summer storm builds up over Lorraine, Jesus, a flock of angels, and her cross.
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 8.3.2011
February 29
A scene in a cemetery that’s called simply the Old Burying Ground.
on Casco Bay
Kittery Point, Maine
photographed 4.12.2011
February 21
The next time you go to El Paso, try to have enough time to visit Concordia Cemetery. The cemetery was founded in the 1850s and there are over 60,000 people buried on the 52 acre site, so it’ll take a while to see everything.
If you plan it right (I didn’t) you might even get to join in on a ghost tour.
Also, this might have happened to me. If you go to the cemetery’s webpage, and click around until you get to the Dia de Los Muertos tab, and you get completely engrossed in looking at the pictures, you will be really, really surprised when the trumpet-y music starts up. So be careful.
El Paso, Texas
photographed 5.2.2010
February 18
Say you are on a trip. In Missouri. With no real destination other than generally getting from St. Louis to Kansas City. And say you happen to notice on the map (because you are like that, preferring actual, paper maps over a GPS) a town called Frankenstein.
Of course you have to go!
And say, on your way through Frankenstein, you notice a big church (Our Lady, Help of Christians, as it turns out) with a playground and a graveyard beside it. You have to stop.
And, because you saw the town on the map and the church in the town, you also saw this: a caretaker’s hut, built of brick to match the church, with a white door held closed by a board.
It was a great trip.
Frankenstein, Missouri
photographed 6.2006
February 15
In the McKinny Cemetery, I spotted a very large, very dead tree.
McKinny Cemetery
near County Road 108
Blanco County, Texas
photographed 8.8.2009
with C. Vigil
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