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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Bonaventure Cemetery

Yesterday morning I woke up bright and early at 7:30 and snuck out of the hotel room and drove myself to Bonaventure Cemetery.

Located 15 minutes from the Historic District, Bonaventure was originally a plantation with a small family cemetery. Over a hundred years ago, it was converted into one of the finest and largest public cemeteries in the South.

I was the only visitor as far as I could tell for my 90-minute trek through gravestones and monuments. I'm going to share a couple of pictures of some of the cooler monuments below, and I used very different editing techniques for each. Which do you prefer?

Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery

Bonaventure Cemetery

2 comments:

PSF said...

Great pictures! What a fun little morning adventure :)

Anonymous said...

Beautiful pictures. My favorite is the third from the top, because of the feelings of serenity, yet also melancholy, it evokes.