I love cemeteries and graveyards. I travel across the United States photographing cemeteries in every city and town I visit. I have thousands of photographs, but for brevity here are just a few that I have taken personally:
This is my first self portrait in front of my favorite mausoleum, the Ives family mausoleum in Cedar Rapids:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ds/ZoomBob.jpg
An excllent gothic version stone mausoleum:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Sinclair1.jpg
and a closeup of the beautiful gate and gothic lettering of the family name:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r.../Sinclair2.jpg
Tombstones over 100 years old:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...oss-marker.jpg
Beautiful columns on this one:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/DowsMaus.jpg
Some families continue to honor the memory of their ancestors. This mausoleum is over one hundred years old yet had fresh flowers on the gate:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ouglasMaus.jpg
Here I am standing on the huge Greene family tombstone:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...TakeAStand.jpg
An appropriately named family tombstone:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...aves007_22.jpg
Entrance to a unique cemetery:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...emetery017.jpg
And my favorite mausoleum inside it:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...emetery028.jpg
A Hawaiian cemetery:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007043.jpg
And fresh grave within:
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007048.jpg
As well as beautiful Japanese grave markers (yes that is me in front sporting a "beach goth" look):
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...ii-2007045.jpg
And I have many many others. I love them, and hope to someday be interred in a beautiful stone mausoleum.
