October 6, 2024
With a long overnight in Charleston, I just knew I was going to find my way to Magnolia Cemetery. But since rental cars were so high, I had to Lyft on over. It was well worth the price. The grounds were alive in pale green, sopping wet and had alligators Read more…
October 1, 2024
My job offers me the opportunity to explore so many cities. An one of the things I like to add to my list is cemeteries. Beautiful historic rural cemeteries offer me lots of steps and lots of pictures. To follow, one such cemetery close to my hotel in Hunstville, Alabama… Read more…
September 13, 2024
Another cloudy day would be the perfect time to meander in another historic rural cemetery in DC. Oak Hill Cemetery was very pretty with lots to see on a smaller scale than by say Rock Creek Cemetery. That face Checkerboard tiling was a nice touch Baby boy Allow me to Read more…
September 7, 2024
Established in 1834, Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore is one of the earliest rural cemeteries in the country. And it is breathtaking. After taking the hour drive a few days after learning of it, I was taken by its beauty. Relatively compact, it has so much to see. This was Read more…
September 2, 2024
Reminiscent of my beloved Green-Wood, Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery with some gorgeous patina to hunt down. Opening in the 1850’s, Elmwood was part of the Rural Cemetery Movement to which I owe many hours of exploration to–nation-wide. Registered on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, Read more…
August 31, 2024
When I have a free moment here in DC, I crave the things that I used to do when my time was all my own. Exploring the area for rural cemeteries with impressive funerary monuments is one such thing. I spied Glenwood Cemetery as I drove to the airport from Read more…
June 7, 2024
This statue… was the first. The first time a cemetery was added to a travel itinerary. 2006. So it has been a while since I saw it, but boy is it just as mesmerizing. Eternal Silence.
For reasons that will be fairly obvious as you scroll through this post, Bohemian National Cemetery was on my list for a bit. This historic cemetery was founded in 1877 “to provide a suitable burial site for persons of Bohemian birth or extraction.” It is one of many beautiful cemeteries Read more…
May 31, 2024
Once I saw that a rural cemetery was just a mile or so from my hotel, I hit the hot streets of Norfolk for a quick meander. Inside Elmwood Cemetery were some gorgeous monuments. But the blazing sun drained my energy quickly. Here are some of the best shots I Read more…
May 22, 2024
I knew as I settled into part-time living in Washington DC that a visit to Rock Creek Cemetery wouldn’t be far off. Having spent some time searching its grounds years ago, I spent this visit not looking for something new but saying high to those monuments That had taken my Read more…
May 11, 2024
One of the prettiest cemeteries I’ve been in quite some time, The Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia, established in 1847, spans 135 acres. Home to many gorgeous pieces of funerary art, it was well worth the stop. Like no other, you can’t be replaced Loved this stark white monument She’s Read more…
April 13, 2024
You know I love a rural cemetery that dates back to the 1850’s, that holds a spectacular array of flowering trees and many texturous decaying angels. So I got myself to the historic Elmwood Pinewood Cemetery in Charlotte’s downtown on a day off. One of many decapitated… “Strange” is dead. Read more…
March 26, 2024
The turn of the seasons are my very favorite times to photograph cemeteries… And on foot, in the newly docile air, one discovers the gems not visible from the road… The van from afar Cat 1 Cat 2 Still snow on the ground Aren’t we? Sealed up A little birdhouse Read more…
November 24, 2023
There is so much to discover at Mount Hope Cemetery, one of the two beautiful historic rural cemeteries in Rochester. On this visit on Black Friday (i.e. “Buy Nothing Day”) I caught the last of the fall’s color before a cold snap would drop the rest of the leaves to Read more…
November 4, 2023
As I moved from one cemetery to the next one on my itinerary, I happened to pass see this on en route. I quickly pulled in, spying some monuments of height. Once I took a closer look, I was blown by its beauty, blown away by the woeful women who Read more…
May 6, 2023
I have many NYC lists filled with all sorts of things of interest. But now I will begin the slow process of crossing as many places off my list as possible. St. Michaels Cemetery is one such places. Since we were in Queens for a baseball game, we made a Read more…
April 10, 2023
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, New York has all the right stuff for gravers: the cemetery dates back to the late 1800’s; it has some beautiful angels and peaceful lush grounds including some resident deer. In any given plot is plenty to capture, but in this visit I tried the Read more…
March 6, 2023
I knew when the snow was falling I had to see this angel. Holy Sepulchre‘s gorgeous Corona/Di Cesare angel. So much fluffy show How I look in the morning LOL Miscellaneous droids I liked Scenes from Krudco Skate Shop
January 22, 2023
Winter’s first trip into Green-Wood Cemetery with my new telephoto lens would seem years from the last time I walked in. This is the thing with Green-Wood. It is like a time capsule; it holds onto pieces of every time I visit and mixes them confusingly in a sequence of Read more…
August 22, 2022
This is the most beautiful cemetery I have ever visited. With an overwhelming about of beautiful art within its one million burials, it sits within a rocky slope creating a layered lay-out that is trily mind-blowing. To follow some of the beauty I found within my short visit.
Cementiri de Poblenou was a big reason for my deciding to go ahead and join a friend in Spain this summer. It was number one on my list of international must-visit cemeteries. This, because of a haunting sculptured entitled El Petó de la Mort or the Kiss of Death I Read more…
August 17, 2022
It’s been awhile since I have been abroad! 7 years to be exact. With the worst school year of my life, ending in being excessed, another excessed teacher and I decided we had a lot to decompress from. I would join her in Spain on an adventure. With that in Read more…
December 31, 2021
So the day was perfect for graving… potent white sky, a chill in the air, some time to kill. So I headed to the first municipal cemetery in the United States. Rochester, New York’s Mount Hope Cemetery, established in 1838. With two quick visits, I haven’t even scratched the surface Read more…
August 15, 2021
It was a quest to find one of my favorite angel replicas at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Rochester, New York: The heartbreaking Angel of Grief. But there were plenty of other beautiful sculptures to admire and capture on the grounds. Many sculptures had very nice detailing. Look at this Read more…
July 16, 2021
With a friend in town, it is busy times in Brooklyn and Queens, starting with a mermaid shoot at Jacob Riis in the Rockaways. Of course we had to jump in the water with record-high heat! Before and after the Atlantic ocean… Brekkie at Le Petit Monstre.. despite everything looking Read more…
May 19, 2021
Sometimes when I get out of work, my feet take me to Green-Wood Cemetery… usually when it is beautiful out or when I have my good camera on me or if it’s been a minute. Most of the time I don’t deconstruct it. I just go, and let the why Read more…