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Your daughter
There are some photographic things I almost always do: walk around back, look inside. And read what’s been left. This tomb had a rain-battered copy of King Lear, opened just as you see it here.
These tombs generally have many people buried in them, so I am making assumptions about the relevance of on of the lines in the open page. It says, “Your daughter is not well.”
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
Destitute Orphan Boys
Maybe one of the things New Orleans is most famous for are its cemeteries, which have above-ground tombs. You can imagine that I’d get in a cemetery visit or two while I was in town, and so I headed over to this one early one morning.
(Outside the gates, there was a man selling bottled water. It was, he said, the cheapest water in town. A travel tip from me to you.)
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1
New Orleans, Louisiana
photographed 4.24.2018
The Gate to Heaven
The gate in front of yesterday’s cemetery.
St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018
St. Rose, crumbling
Afternoon sun cuts across the old cemetery and chapel in a pleasing fashion. I’ve been here before, but there’s something about the place that just keeps drawing me back. I wonder, though, if it will be as interesting after that building falls down – because it will surely fall.
St. Rose of Lima Cemetery
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2018
Long’s Cemetery on the long horizon
The other weekend, I met up with a photographer friend in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, which is one of my favorite towns to photograph. But on the way I took some back roads that were new to me. Which is how I found this little cemetery – a mile down a dirt road and thousands of miles from anywhere.
Long’s Cemetery
near Rogers, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2018
One Day | One Image 