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Artisanal Marker
When I took that class last month at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, our instructor said we should “stay away” from making photos in cemeteries or churches. It struck me that he was pushing his personal preferences onto us. And it also struck me that even though he’s famous and I’m not, I get to make that decision for myself. (He also spoke of including “implied narratives” in our images, and I don’t know many places better than cemeteries to find such implied narratives. So what was he even talking about? I’m sure I don’t know.)
Anyway, I found this handmade cross, with a nice artisanal feel about it, in the hot and dry cemetery in Marathon, Texas.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Various Icons
Oh, man, I loved the way the cowboy, the crucifix, the five black crosses, and the little stone saint’s niche were all hanging out together in this part of the cemetery. It looks like the cowboy is heading out, though, so I guess I got there just in time.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.24.2016
Snow-globe Jesus
I go to a lot of cemeteries.
I’d never seen anything like this before – a jar put into service as a sort of snow-globe Jesus pressed into the concrete cross.
Cedar Park, New Mexico
photographed 7.1.2016
Pondered life this ancient tree had known
Those old oak trees provide a break between the cemetery and everything else.
Mowata, Louisiana
photographed 1.9.2016
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I must not hold this hurt
A tidy, whitewashed cemetery glows in the winter sun.
St. Charles, Louisiana
photographed 1.9.2016
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