This cemetery is one of my favorites ever in the whole entire world! The first being Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, of course. While St. Louis #1 had the history that caught my attention, this cemetery had the type of iconography and ornamentation that I absolutely love.
With the sky overcast and threatening rain the few colors found around seemed to stand out in even more stark relief against the dark marble obelisks and tombstones. The purple of the Vitex Bush. The red of clay accents. The stark white of a lingering bloom on a funeral bouquet. The gold of a 70 year old display behind glass in a still used family tomb. The green of tarnished copper...
You can find a brief history of how the cemetery came to be here. From racetrack to grandiose graves. Madams and dignitaries and heroes and the everyday average folks. This place has it all...
Some of these photos look like paintings. They're too beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThanks Cassie! The funerary art there is mindblowingly (is that a real word?) amazing!
DeleteHoly smokes! What a gorgeous cemetery!!
ReplyDeleteI know, right? We were there for 4 hours and only scratched the surface. I'll definitely be going back...
DeleteThat dog statue at the end is beautiful! I have to admit though that Dr. Who and the Weeping Angels have ruined all human statues for me, they give me the heebie jeebies!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. God. Those things are terrifying!
DeleteI love cemeteries, very good photography.
ReplyDeleteI shoot photos of one in my country El Salvador, but now I am in Costa Rica, I need to go to check out, because there is one that looks old :3