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The remains of last week’s offering
My friend Ehpem lives only a couple of blocks from the Chinese Cemetery. I’d gone there on my previous visit but was so captivated by the ocean that I forgot to photograph the cemetery, an astounding oversight on my part.
On my recent visit, Ehpem and I were eating dinner when he interrupted his own sentence and said, “Look at the light! We need to get to the cemetery right now!” And off we went.
A bank of clouds meant that the light wasn’t quite what we were expecting, but we did what we could. And finished dinner after the sun was down.
There’s an interesting article on the cemetery here, if you’re interested.
Chinese Cemetery
Victoria, BC
photographed 4.23.2015
Side yard/graveyard
The church yard at Las Trampas had a small graveyard in it.
The village of Las Trampas was founded in 1751 and the church was built between 1760 and 1776. The historic marker said, “Parishioners periodically re-mud the adobe walls, which are as much as six feet thick.” I guess eventually those ever-thickening walls will start to encroach on the graves.
San José de Gracia Church
Las Trampas, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
May he rest in peace
These grave-site pickets caught my attention, the way their blackened ends poked at the sky. They don’t seem especially comforting to me, but I will assume that Sr. Martinez is resting peacefully.
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
May 3, 1968
First of all, I want to apologize for having been so slow to respond to comments for the last couple of weeks. I’ve been doing some traveling and haven’t been able to keep up the way I like.
I spent a week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops; the legendary National Geographic photographer Sam Abell was teaching a week-long course and I was fortunate to have been selected to participate. Sam was the kind of teacher you’d want: talented, knowledgeable, and completely generous with helping us become better photographers. It was an important week.
This grave marker in a small cemetery is one of the images I made during the workshop. We found an interesting cemetery along the High Road between Santa Fe and Taos, and had time enough to stop for a while and practice the things Sam had taught us the first day of class…
Los Llanitos Cemetery
near Truchas, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
Red. Mud. Dust.
I can vouch for red, and cemetery, and dust. I did not see any mud.
Red Mud Cemetery
Dickens County, Texas
photographed 3.15.2015
One Day | One Image 