Imperial King_#E001

The Imperial Crypt, also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632. Since 1633 The Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the Habsburg dynasty, hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and their descendants.

The bodies of 145 aristocrats, plus urns containing the hearts or cremated remains of four others, are deposited here (as of 2005). They include 12 Emperors and 18 Empresses. The most recent entombment was in 2011.

Heaven's Gate_#U001

Metairie Cemetery is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road (and formerly on the banks of the since filled-in Bayou Metairie).

A sincere thank you to the management and staff of Metairie Cemetery for making this image possible. An exposure that took much longer than the cemetery operating hours allowed. By the grace of Metairie management and staff's understanding of our plight... this image will live forever.

Parallax for Awareness

For more than a decade the creator of this stunning body of work has had the dream of shedding light on the need for hospice care.

In 2005 during his father’s battle with a slowly debilitating illness, he became ever more acutely aware of the critical need for these “earthly angels” and the priceless service of hospice care.

On Bended Knee_#C001

Isla Mujeres is an island in the Caribbean Sea, just across the Bahia de Mujeres (Bay of Women) about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) off the Yucatan Peninsula coast. The island is some 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) long and 650 metres (2,130 ft) wide. Last census report 1n 2012 had the islands population at 12,642 inhabitants.

Isla Mujere's unnamed cemetery, located on Avenida Lopez Mateos, on the South end of the island is a cemetery of a grand scale, full of lavish crypts, beautiful statues and colorful handmade grave sites made by families and loved ones.

Epicrypt_#E002

St. Stephen's Cathedral (Stephansdom) is the Gothic needle around which Vienna spins. While heavily damaged in WWII, the church survived. Today it symbolizes the city's freedom and proud spirit.

On the outside of St. Stephen's Cathedral, there lies a charnel house and eight cemeteries abutting the cathedral's side and back walls. Among the walls of the cemetery is this this crypt, an ancient architectural bas relief.

Cloak of Conscience_#E003

The Cloak of Conscience, Piétà or Commendatore, empty coat, created by Czech-born, Austrian-raised artist Anna Chromy the Imposing statue with a hollow inside sits outside the Estates Theater, where W.A. Mozart conducted the 1787 premiere of his opera Don Giovanni.

“I believe deeply in the values of Beauty, Kindness and Truth. It is conscience, our inner sense of what is right or wrong, which controls or inhibits our actions and thoughts, that gave me the courage to create with the Cloak the universal Symbol for Peace, and Solidarity”.

- Anna Chromy

Sleeping Lion_#U002

Known as the “Lion of Atlanta” Erected in 1894 a memorial to over 3000 unknown Confederate soldiers buried in Oakland Cemetery located in Atlanta, GA. It is based on the "Lion of Lucerne" in Switzerland, which Mark Twain called “the most mournful and moving stone in the world”.

- Photographed in 1985 on black and white, Infra-Red film - The Southern Magnolia looming over this Confederate Memorial was over 130 years old, and noted as the largest in the South East. In the mid. 1990's this magnificent tree died through complications of disease.

Gaurdian Angel_#U003

Oakland Cemetery is an eighty-eight acre space of beauty and serenity in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia. The cemetery served as the final resting place for everyone in Atlanta between 1850 and the early 1880’s, including all races, religions, and social classes. Oakland Cemetery is also known for the 6,900 Confederate Soldiers buried there, 3,000 of them unknown.

Among the notables in this cemetery you can find the graves of Bobby Jones an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport, Bishop Wesley John Gaines, a former slave and founder of Morris Brown College, Dr. Joseph Jacobs, the pharmacist who introduced Coca-Cola, and author of Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, just to name a few.

Reaper's Last Call_#E004

A Grim Reaper statue stands at the entrance of the crypt/catacombs in Salzburg Cathedral – by sculptor Ligier Richier. Salzburg Cathedral - Austria's oldest, continuous-use Christian cemetery (since 1627), known as Petersfriedhof (St. Peter's Cemetery).

The ancient catacombs beneath the Cathedral were used by early Christians and contains St. Peter's Abbey/Monestary. It was featured in the film "Sound Of Music". Many notables (such as Mozart's sister Nannerl) and aristocrats of Salzburg are buried here.

Unearthing Hope Demo

For more than a decade the creator of this stunning body of work has had the dream of shedding light on the need for hospice care.

In 2005 during his father’s battle with a slowly debilitating illness, he became ever more acutely aware of the critical need for these “earthly angels” and the priceless service of hospice care.

Veiled In Mourning_#E005

The Imperial Crypt, also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632. Since 1633 The Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the Habsburg dynasty, hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and their descendants.

The bodies of 145 aristocrats, plus urns containing the hearts or cremated remains of four others, are deposited here (as of 2005). They include 12 Emperors and 18 Empresses. The most recent entombment was in 2011.

Christ with a Toothache_#E006

On the facade of St. Stephen’s Cathedral is a figure of Christ, the official name for figure is the “Man of Sorrow”. The Viennese know this figure as “Christ with a Toothache”. This comes from an age old local legend.

Legend has it that, one day, two homeless people woke up in the cemetery and saw this statue. They made fun of it saying that Jesus had a toothache. The next day each of them developed terrible toothaches. These were incurable until they returned to the spot and prayed fervently for forgiveness, after which they were cured within the hour.

The Morning Star_U004

The KJV and NKJV both translate “morning star” as “Lucifer, son of the morning.” It is clear from the rest of the passage that Isaiah is referring to Satan’s fall from heaven, Luke 10:18. The "morning star" is also a nickname for the planet Venus, which was called Lucifer in Roman astronomy.

The story behind those ugly faces that adorn the Biltmore House located in Asheville, North Carolina, was that the builder was not happy the way the customer paid him (in bouncing checks) so the sculptures of the ugly faces resembled the customer with the bad checks. Horses with scowling faces that adorn vintage carousels also fell to this same fate.

A Profound Gift_#C002

Isla Mujere's unnamed cemetery, located on Avenida Lopez Mateos, on the South end of the island, and is a cemetery, of a grand scale, full of lavish crypts, beautiful statues and colorful handmade grave sites made by families and loved ones.

This is an SX-70 Polaroid Manipulation - A technique that is no longer available, or possible. Photographed in 1998 with a Polaroid SX-70 camera and Time Zero film. The image captured is but a small part of the memorial, dedicated to Amparo Rodriguez Povedano, Birth Feb. 10, 1904 – Death Feb. 17, 1991. Panteon Municipal de Isla Mujeres.

Spirits of the Dead_#U005

Oakland Cemetery is an eighty-eight acre space of beauty and serenity in the heart of Atlanta, Georgia. The cemetery served as the final resting place for everyone in Atlanta between 1850 and the early 1880’s, including all races, religions, and social classes. Oakland Cemetery is also known for the 6,900 Confederate Soldiers buried there, 3,000 of them unknown.

Jewish Section – The closely spaced monuments mark the eastern European Jewish section of Oakland Cemetery. Jews from eastern Europe came to Atlanta later from those that migrated from Germany.

Draped In Sorrow_#E007

Divison 18 - Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris. Located on Boulevard de Ménilmontant. Each year, Père Lachaise Cemetery has more than 3.5 million visitors, making it the most visited cemetery in the world.

This is the tomb of Francios Vincent Raspail (1794 – 1878), a revolutionary who was imprisoned during the revolutions of 1830 and 1848. High on the outer wall of his tomb is a barred window. Beneath it, with her arm extended so that her hand reaches inside, is the completely shrouded figure of his wife. The statue is commanding, but graceful, mysterious and yet sorrowful.

Love Lost_#E008

Divison 14 - Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris. Père Lachaise Cemetery was opened on 21 May 1804. Père Lachaise is still an operating cemetery and accepting new burials. However, the rules to be buried in a Paris cemetery are rather strict.

Augustin-Jean Moreau-Vauthier (1831-1893), Tombeau de la famille Moreau Vauthier. Including Gabriel-Jean-Paul Moreau-Vauthier (1871-1936). French sculptors. Statue of La Douleur.

Untitled_#E009

The Imperial Crypt, also called the Capuchin Crypt (Kapuzinergruft), is a burial chamber beneath the Capuchin Church and monastery in Vienna, Austria. It was founded in 1618 and dedicated in 1632. Since 1633 The Imperial Crypt in Vienna has been the principal place of entombment for the Habsburg dynasty, hereditary Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire and their descendants.

The bodies of 145 aristocrats, plus urns containing the hearts or cremated remains of four others, are deposited here (as of 2005). They include 12 Emperors and 18 Empresses. The most recent entombment was in 2011.

Walk With Me_#U006

Located in beautiful Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, founded in 1852. This is one of two identical tombs crafted by Robert Wood & Co. of Philadelphia and Miltenberger Foundry of New Orleans.

The name on the tomb is J. M Pelton. He started out as a sugar planter in Terrebonne (Dulac Plantation), later formed a partnership with Joseph Dunbar. Together they built a very successful refinery that made sugar, molasses and syrups.

Lion Lion_#U007

The Richards Mausoleum, found in Oakland Cemetery, located in Atlanta, GA. The mausoleum was designed by renowned funerary architect H. Q. French of New York City, in the 1880's. The monument features a Gothic Revival Style. He designed a very similar mausoleum in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse New, York.

Robert H. Richards, died on September 16, 1888, and managed to complete the build of the mausoleum before his death. Robert H. Richards was the co-founder of Atlanta National Bank.

Lyes Buried_#U008

The Circular Congregational Church is a historic church located at 150 Meeting Street in Charleston, SC., USA, and is still used today by a congregation established in 1681.

The graveyard of Circular Church is likely the oldest English burial ground still in existence in Charleston. While many gravestones have disappeared, more than 500 remain.

Markers in the 1600s typically were inscribed with stark skull-and-crossbones, the ancient symbol of death. By the early 1700s, the crossbones were replaced by wings and the resulting image was being called "death's head." So, although the skull continued to emphasize death, the wings were introducing the idea of flight from the Earth or life after death.

360 Marietta Confederate Cemetery

The Marietta Confederate Cemetery came into being  in September of 1863. The city of Marietta acquired a little over two acres from a man by the name of William Bosley for soldier’s burials. It was not long until additional property was needed and two plus acres were purchased from Ann Moyer. The last portion of the cemetery was a donation by Jane Porter Glover. Men who died around the battle of Chickamauga and whose bodies were left around the battlefield area were interred in this section of the cemetery after the war.

The Marietta Confederate Cemetery Foundation and Friends of Brown Park, Inc. is committed to the preservation of the cemetery and to honor the soldiers buried there. Our past fund raising efforts have provided benches with sculptures for a walking tour through the cemetery. Several statues grace Brown Park and the cemetery and granite walls list the names of the known dead who lie in the Confederate Cemetery.

Ladies of the Celtic Cross_#U009

The Neal Monument is one of the most beautiful monuments in Oakland Cemetery located in Atlanta, GA., USA. Completed in 1874, it shows a rich array of symbols the Victorians used to commemorate the dead. The Celtic cross stands for eternal life. The books are Bibles. The closed one suggests a life guided to completion, the open one illustrates the spiritual wisdom that leads to an eternal life. The laurel wreath and palm branch signify victory over death and the triumph of eternal life.

Mary "Mollie" Cash Neal (1844 - 1894), Wife of Thomas B. Neal - This monument shows a mother and daughter which is said to represent Mollie and her daughter Lizzie. Mollie Neal is thought to be represented by the woman on the left.

The Sphinx of Brunswig_#U010

One of the most visited and photographed places in Metairie Cemetery stands near the rear of the older part of the cemetery. The outstanding Egyptian influences of the Brunswig Mausoleum are very worthy of attention. A sphinx guards its doorway along with a woman delivering a libation urn; a winged orb chiseled over its entrance offers divine protection.

Lucien Napoleon Brunswig was born in Montmedy, France, in 1854, Lucien Napoleon Brunswig was a pharmaceutical millionaire, and when his young son and wife died within a month of each other he had them buried in this pyramid tomb. Upon Lucien Brunswig's death 51 years later, he was laid to rest in the same toomb. The pyramid mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery has attracted visitors for over a century.