
Timeless Angel - Rand District Cemetery, Johannesburg, Calif. And to my imagination.” Avenging Angel - Calvary Cemetery. “Today I see that same angel as a guardian from this life into the next - standing bold over her charge as an unvarying reminder we may forget those who would otherwise be forgotten. In the Arms of an Angel - Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles, Calif. It has slightly sloping hills, with flowers and careful landscaping making it appealing.
The one thing I have been able to hold onto from my youth is an image from my catechism class of a lone angel overlooking a couple of children crossing a rickety old bridge.Guardian Angel Cemetery is the largest of its kind in the area.
“Photographing angels allows me to grasp on to that constant that has survived my past. My friend Alvin Valles, another angel photographer says, “Sooner or later everyone comes to the realization that the past is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope - comfortably faint and seemingly further away than it is. Silver Angel - Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, Calif. Perhaps that benevolent emotion is what pulls me in again and again.

They are God’s messengers, working for Him and for the ultimate benefit of mankind. In the Bible, the word “angel” nearly always applies to heavenly beings.

The statues’ creators are long gone and probably long forgotten - but their art lives on in cemeteries around the world. The final outcome is a collaboration between me and the sculptor.

She is so sensuous and, well, just perfect.Įach figure determines its own artistic treatment - how it will be photographed and how the resulting image will be processed afterward. I think the sculpture above was created by a man who truly loved women.
