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California Gravestone - PostMortem
2007.12.04
I took this in Northern California on my honeymoon. I went back there because I lived there for one summer as a 6-year-old. My friends and I used to play in this cemetery and I recall one of them noticing this stone, and we all were amazed that someone so young could be dead, so long ago. Anyway, I trace my interest in cemeteries to that event, to this place and this stone.
Blame it on Albert Rogers (this is his gravestone).
This was taken on color 35mm film and printed in my own darkroom. The original ceramic portrait looks to be faded or possibly never was in focus, and might even have been sketched over at some point. I've tried to pull it out in the scan and bring up what details are there. I have only seen a couple post mortem photos on gravestones. For it's age, I still think this is in pretty good condition...
By the way, the kid I played with most in that cemetery died at the end of that Summer. Guess you never know, do you?
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I took this in Northern California on my honeymoon. I went back there because I lived there for one summer as a 6-year-old. My friends and I used to play in this cemetery and I recall one of them noticing this stone, and we all were amazed that someone so young could be dead, so long ago. Anyway, I trace my interest in cemeteries to that event, to this place and this stone.
Blame it on Albert Rogers (this is his gravestone).
This was taken on color 35mm film and printed in my own darkroom. The original ceramic portrait looks to be faded or possibly never was in focus, and might even have been sketched over at some point. I've tried to pull it out in the scan and bring up what details are there. I have only seen a couple post mortem photos on gravestones. For it's age, I still think this is in pretty good condition...
By the way, the kid I played with most in that cemetery died at the end of that Summer. Guess you never know, do you?
