This was a Victorian Aid Society fund raiser to help with the Animas Museum they are currently in the process of putting a new roof on and this has been part of their yearly fall festival.
"Being rushed may have had something to affect more precise framing of the shots.
The cemetery is my personal favorite for photography and DISCOVERY OF WHO WE WERE (some call my "personal favorite" a "shameful pleasure". I think that's because 99.9% of most Americans are uncomfortable with the subject).
I've scoured cemetery's ranging from the Henry Olmstead designed Oakland Cemetery (Henry designed New York's Central Park by the way) to the once decrepid, and only recently saved Hollywood Forever Cemetery next to the Paramount Movie Studios in Los Angeles. At the Forever Cemetery I discovered the monumental resting places of classic, Hollywood movie stars and the island mausoleum of the man Clark County, NEVADA was named for.
The Forever Cemeteries (there are several across the country) are unique in that there are computer kiosks throughout them that visitors can do everything from research the cemetery's residents to actually see and hear them speak while they were alive! Some even knowing of their imminent deaths due to mortal illness' can be seen.
To the uncaring and univolved it appears "kind of creepy". But to the bright-eyed, little child seeing their beloved Grandpa it's nothing short of priceless.
See Robin William's film "THE FINAL CUT" for a taste of what those tributes are like."
