Archive for the ‘Cemeteries’ Category

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A Stroll through Allegheny Cemetery

February 26, 2008

A short stroll in the snow through an enchanted landscape filled with fantastic temples, angels, and cold beauties with warm hearts.

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Dead, but Still Busy

February 20, 2008

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Mr. O’Neill is possibly the only resident of the Allegheny Cemetery who is still working at a desk job post mortem. Eugene O’Neill is buried nearby, but not any Eugene O’Neill you know.

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Lilies

December 20, 2007
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Easter lilies, symbolic of the resurrection, rendered in stained glass at the rear of a mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery.
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Among the Angels

December 19, 2007
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Two angels from the Allegheny Cemetery, where angels are understandably a popular theme in sculpture.
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A Forgotten Temple

December 7, 2007

 

Like a forgotten Khmer temple rising out of the jungle, this octagonal mausoleum in the Allegheny Cemetery is partly overgrown, sprouting small trees from its roof. The black-and-white pictures were taken with an old Agfa Isolette, the color picture with a Yashica-A TLR.

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Allegheny Cemetery

December 5, 2007

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Sometimes a camera’s flaws can be used to some advantage. An old and slightly foggy lens on a cheap Agfa folding camera gives the proper air of mystery to these scenes from the Allegheny Cemetery.

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Sunset or Sunrise?

December 3, 2007

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Stained glass from a mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery. Is it a sunset or a sunrise? That depends, perhaps, on what we think of death.

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Egyptian Fantasy

December 2, 2007

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The Winter mausoleum in Allegheny Cemetery is an Egyptian-revival fantasy. The bronze doors show Mr. Winter himself as a pharaoh embarking on his journey through the underworld.

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