Re: Gravestone photography

[Don Roberts <droberts@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Elson Elizaga wrote:
> The project has me curious about the symbols -- the obelisks, the 
> pointing finger (a reference to Da Vinci's John the Baptist?), the 
> weeping willow (I don't know, yet, what this means), and what appears to 
> be the masonic handshake. All these repeated in several instances. I 
> intentionally placed a large photo on the cover, showing the name 
> "Magdalena". I'm sure some of you here have also read "Holy Blood, Holy 
> Grail," "The Templar Revelation," and similar literatures.
>  
> Near one of the gravestones marked "Bryans" 
> (http://isb.elizaga.net/94-99.htm), I found four coins during my third 
> visit. I had a companion then. He is doing the documentation of this 
> cemetery. He took a quick look at the coins and said they were US money, 
> dated 1970s up. How they got there we don't know.
Elson, I'm sure that you know that  searching Google, Yahoo or 
others for "funerary art", "cemetery art" or "tombstone symbolism" 
will turn up numerous resources to help you interpret what you are 
shooting.
Don

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