Excellent resource, thanks! I've been collecting pictures of gravestones on each vacation trip every time we've spotted a cemetery or graveyard. My kids are going to look back and wonder if we were the real life Addams Family because of all the stops we made like that, but it's amazing the amount of variety you see around the country and the amount of detail to take in, like the extreme weathering you see in 150+ year-old stones around New England that are so thin they can no longer be read. There's also the interesting mineral leaching (i.e., streaks on the stone where Ca, Fe, etc. dissolves and runs down the sides over the decades) and moss or algae. I bought an airbrush years ago to add all those details to my otherwise very plain plywood grave"stones." I'm sure your photos will inspire some great builds.
Excellent resource, thanks! I've been collecting pictures of gravestones on each vacation trip every time we've spotted a cemetery or graveyard. My kids are going to look back and wonder if we were the real life Addams Family because of all the stops we made like that, but it's amazing the amount of variety you see around the country and the amount of detail to take in, like the extreme weathering you see in 150+ year-old stones around New England that are so thin they can no longer be read. There's also the interesting mineral leaching (i.e., streaks on the stone where Ca, Fe, etc. dissolves and runs down the sides over the decades) and moss or algae. I bought an airbrush years ago to add all those details to my otherwise very plain plywood grave"stones." I'm sure your photos will inspire some great builds.
Such beautiful architecture
the small ones against the trees in the beginning are beautiful