As a cemetery photographer, A. Louise Myers’ work has appeared in the two leading industry magazines: American Cemetery and Funeral Director Magazine. Two of her photographs have landed on the cover. She has had the privilege of working with historical societies, military associations, the Catholic Sisters of St. Joseph, genealogy leagues and cemetery preservation organizations. Her work has been shown and sold at juried art fairs across the Midwest.
Photographing cemeteries for the past fifteen years, I have traveled across the United States to capture the beautiful statuary hidden in cemeteries. Each stone with a name carved on it has a story, many are sadly lost, but the monuments remain. Clues to who these people were. Nothing is more fasinating to me than that.
Photographing marble can be tricky. Light seems to be absorbed by it in some places and beams off of it in others. Some sculptures are so eroded by time and pollution that it takes some special light and angles to get any shot at all. It is not unusual to see her perched precariously on a step ladder to get the shot with one of her long suffering daughters at the bottom trying to hold it steady on very uneven ground.
Photographing marble can be tricky. Light seems to be absorbed by it in some places and beams off of it in others. Some sculptures are so eroded by time and pollution that it takes some special light and angles to get any shot at all. It is not unusual to see her perched precariously on a step ladder to get the shot with one of her long suffering daughters at the bottom trying to hold it steady on very uneven ground.
Photographic prints and other items are available in our Marble Orchard Shop.
The photographs on this site © 1996-2011 by A. Louise Myers.
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