Cemetery Photography



TaphophileAn individual who has a passion for and enjoyment of cemeteries.

In 2011, I started a segment on this blog called Cemetery Sundays. The idea originated from an incredible tour of St. Louis Number 1 Cemetery during my first visit to New Orleans. While photographing the beautiful and ornate tombstones, crypts and sculptures, I realized that the photos could be used as inspiration for the cemetery and tombstone props in my yard haunt.

I began venturing out each weekend in October, camera in hand, to document the large number of local area cemeteries. With each cemetery that I walked through, I began noticing the ornate art and typography of the older tombstones (usually from the mid to late 1800s) in each. I focused my attention on these stones, as the character and story of each far surpassed the mundane repetition and bland cookie-cutter shapes of the newer stones. I quickly realized that these stones needed to be documented and shared for inspiration with my fellow haunters on each Cemetery Sunday...

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Mater Dolorosa Cemetery
Peninsula, Ohio
Cemetery Photos





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Bath Center Cemetery
Bath, Ohio
Cemetery Photos




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Union Cemetery
Steubenville, Ohio
Cemetery photos - Day 1
Cemetery Photos - Day 2




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Fairview Cemetery
Richfield, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Old Town Graveyard
Medina, Ohio
Cemetery photos



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Wintersville UMC Historic Cemetery
Wintersville, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Montrose Cemetery
Copley Township, Ohio
Cemetery photos




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Evans City Cemetery
Evans City, Pennsylvania
Cemetery photos 



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Middlebury Cemetery
Akron, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Cedar Grove Cemetery
Peninsula, Ohio
Cemetery photos

  

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Mount Hope Cemetery
Akron, Ohio 
Cemetery photos 



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Old Tallmadge Cemetery
Tallmadge, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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West Lawn Cemetery
Canton, Ohio 
Cemetery photos - part 1
Cemetery photos - part 2 



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Rose Hill Burial Park
Fairlawn, Ohio 
Cemetery photos 



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Glendale Cemetery
Akron, Ohio
Cemetery photos - part 1
Cemetery photos - part 2 



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East Akron Cemetery
Akron, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Saint Vincent Cemetery
Akron, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Easton Union Memorial Cemetery
Chippewa Township, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Mount Peace Cemetery
Akron, Ohio
Cemetery photos 



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Saint Louis Number 1 Cemetery
New Orleans, Louisiana
Cemetery photos 




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