The following are some of the comments that I've received from people that have stopped by "Cemetery". I am deeply touched and most grateful for each and every one of the following. My sincerest thanks.


S.L. - "I just looked at all of your photos of statues and I'm *really* impressed!  I share your passion for cemetery photography, and in fact I've taken photos at cemeteries all over Europe & the U.S.  I consider myself to be a very good photographer, but I think your photos are truly outstanding.  Do you have any plans to publish a book?  I'd buy a copy in a second!  (Btw; Green-Wood and Woodlawn are two of my favorites, also)."

M.M. - "I was googling images for Cypress Hills Cemetery when I came across your site...it at first showed the immense masoleums that I remembered from my child hood and adolescence, and...I felt those memories run through me so strong... I was looking at something I had been wanting to see for years and years, ever since age 14 when I moved out of Queens after the death of my father...I had never seen those cemeteries again...and I am 22 years old now. You see, my mother and father used to bring me to Cypress Hills cemetery as a child, to visit my grandfather's grave. It was usually in autumn that we went. Years later, when I was 12, my mother passed away and was buried at Cypress Hills in the same grave that we used to visit. My father and I went to the grave everyday to visit her and tend to the roses we planted there. As we did this, we used to drive through the cemetery, looking at and talking of the graves there. I was very attracted to the old ones in particular, as was he... We used to explore other cemeteries as well...some of these are my happiest yet saddest memories. When I turned 14, my father passed, was cremated and his ashes were buried with my mother's in that grave I mentioned earlier. So many memories in that cemetery... I know this may seem like an outlandishly personal email...but your photography brought back so much for me, things I think about on a daily basis, as those cemeteries (Mostly Cypress Hills and the one located across from it...what is the name of that one?) are such a huge part of my childhood. You know, I even dream about these masoleums, these graves, and its like I am really there (because I really I am through sleep)...and with the pictures you took, I feel as if I am in those dreams. Thank you for making a site in dedication to the beauty of cemetery...the art of death...for, all I seem to search for in life, is the perfect necropolis...and its found in your pictures. Please write back if you can. Have a good day. "

K.D., U.K. - "Hello MR. Grant, I am a student at college studying photography as one of my subjects. I came across some of your photographs on the internet that interested me on your website. If it's not too much of a bother. I just need some information from you about the kind of equipment you use whilst doing your work. E.G Camera types, lense types, areas of intrest, Styles, inspirations. All these things are to back up my research. Without this, I can say that you were an inspiration to the photos i have been taking. Thank you or your time, and hope to hear from you soon."

G.T., South Carolina - "Just a note to say that I came across your Cemetery web site today and I must say thank you. Your photographs are works of art and the statement they make about how we remember our loved ones whom we knew well and our ancestors whom we never knew is an inspiration."

Pat - "I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES YOU HAVE ON THE COMPUTER. I DO NOT KNOW THE DATE OF MANY OF MY RELATIVES WHO ARE BURIED IN CALVARY AND SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE BURIED. IT IS A PLEASURE TO SEE THE LOVELY PICTURES HAVE AND HOPE THAT ONE OF THEM MAY BE MY RELATIVE. THANK YOU. BEST WISHES"

J.I., Oregon - "Your images are truly beautiful. For a long time, I thought I was alone in the world in how I feel when I go to a cemetery. I started off in cemeteries in the field of Paranormal research, but like you once I heard that little voice saying pick up the camera - a whole new way of life was born. The funny thing is I started off with an Olympus point and shoot too! (C-5500 5.1megapixel). I'm quite happy to hear you're getting an awesome setup! The images you create sir, are worthy of nothing less than the latest and greatest technologies. I live in Central Oregon, so my collection of photographs range more into the "old west" look. Not like I have much choice. :-) I much prefer the Victorian Gothic style of grandeur found on the east coast. I grew up in Albany and New Lebanon, NY so I'm longing to return and expand my collection! Nevertheless, some places like Hot Lake Sanitorium and the Warm Springs Indian Reservation Burial Grounds are places have changed my life.

Keep up the beautiful work! I hope to hear back from you."

R.H., Detroit, MI. - "I just wanted to mail you and say that I loved your pictures! I take a real fascination with the Angels of cemeteries. Thank you for the smile today!"

K.I. - "Hello there, I just had to tell you. Your website of cemetery photography is best site I've ever seen. You have such beautiful photos. Keep up the wonderful work. I'm adding your url to my site so everyone that visits can check out your site. Thank you for sharing your wonderful photography. Sincerely, K.I."

Rich - "I would like to express my thanks to you for putting up such an interesting and beautiful site.   Even as a child I was fascinated by cemeteries, gravestones, mausoleums and hearses.  Perhaps it started with seeing "House of Usher" or  maybe "Premature Burial" which played in the theatre around the same time.   I haven't shared that with many people for I realized they would think I was either strange or morbid. I, like yourself, have walked thru cemeteries and taken pictures and stopped to view gravestones and wondered about the lives of those now past.  So many thoughts and things to ponder. All I meant to do was say thank you for your site.  I am thoroughly enjoying it and also your most interesting style of writing in your introduction.  I would have enjoyed reading a page about you as well.  Sincerely,   Rich

V.O., Bronx, New York - "I discovered your website while browsing the Internet for sources relative to funerary practices. I required some examples for an art history course I am taking. I found your site to contain some of the most wonderful photos of Mausoleums, Gravestones, and Statues I have encountered in photographs. There are many sites out there that exhibit such a theme, but your site and photos capture a feeling and metaphysical tone that is simply endearing. Many of your photos are of objects found in the Woodlawn Cemetery. I am not one to traverse cemeteries, but I am immensely awed by the many aesthetically exquisite gravestone objects I truly had no idea existed within that cemetery - having only had peripheral passes by it, and being a resident of the Bronx. Your photos have given me reason to pay a visit to what is not only a sacred burial place but an open air museum. I look forward to future visits of your site."

K.G., Auburn, New York - "As I continued to look at your cemetery photographs after I sent my initial email, I was moved beyond words at the beauty of your photographs. You manage to take an otherwise cold and somewhat distant subject matter and create warmth and incredible beauty. Your 'eye' in your photographs is simply amazing. Thank you for your willingness to share your talent. I look forward to receiving the photographs."

H.M., Florida - "hi john, i must say thank you again... the picture just blew me away! i have been having a few down days,but, you lifted me. ''The lives they touched, and were touched by. I wonder; and I give them breath again in my mind...'' thank you john....." and "wow !!!!!!!! great shot !!!!!, you've got a great eye for these pictures, the shots look as if they are speaking...do they ?"

S.H., Houston, Texas - "I absolutely love your photography!! One of the best sites I have ever seen.      (I love cemeteries too)"

S.G., New York - "I am totally in love with your webpage man, so relaxing, I think because I was born October 31st, it makes sense for me to love the head stones and cemetery’s."

Peggy - "Mr Grant, I'm so glaaaaad that someone like yourself is going arnd doing this. The family of those that in craves are gone themselves, so who can or will take care of them. I want to Thank you very much for taking care of them. I have a parents & a son that have gone. I pray that when it is my time that someone will take care of mine.God bless you & keep you safe."

Minda Powers-Douglas - Epitaphs Magazine - "First, I have to say that your photos are splendid. Absolutely gorgeous. Photos I wish I had taken myself! You have an amazing eye and a great technique. And the way you get the color to pop is just awesome. I wish I had seen your work before I decided to take the magazine online because any one of your shots would have made a fabulous cover. "

S. L. - ICCFA Magazine - "Yes, I do like your photos, Mr. Grant. Some have an Eliot Porter feel to them, and I like your composition."

J. K. - American Cemetery Magazine - "WOW...they're so beautiful! I love your color & composition. A deep and emotional experience."

Bec - my daughter - "simply incredible Pop!!! They seem to come alive."

Ruthie Brown - board member/Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT. -  "However - I must tell YOU that your perspectives and angles are VERY good, "I" really appreciate those immensely."

Cheryl - "What beauty. Green-wood cemetery is very special to me . That is where I grew up and have family. I used to go there all the time. I have been wanting to visit, and your photos brought me back there. My Dad as a little boy used to fish in the ponds there with his friends. Thank you for posting."

William, Portland, Maine - "I guess this place has a special significance for you - and you've taken a beautiful image of it."

Katherine, ? - "People are dying to get in there. But i like it, gone and 'mostly' forgotten. Good idea and focus and composition."

Conrad, L.A., CA. - "Quite an evocative image of this graveyard."

? - "Great subject, composition, color, focus and a job well done!"

Maureen, Chicago, IL. - "Good eye for stories in obscure places. Thanks."

Simon, Texas - "I'd thought cremation would be the way I would go, but after seeing your photos of cemeteries, I'm not so sure now"

S.T., San Diego - "I just stumbled upon your site and found it totally intriguing.  Exceptional photography and moving images. I, like so many people out there, are doing geneaology research and I found this to a beautiful site. I am certain my ancestors were in the cemetaries you photographed - all are from Marblehead, Salem, etc...   Thanks for putting this very interesting site together! I look forward to new additions to your site."

Andrew, Utah - "You do for cemeteries what Adams did for the American West - very inspiring - Thanks."

S.K., New York - "Thank you so much for posting your cemetery photos online.  I, like you, love cemeteries.  Many people don't understand this but it's usually the ones who have no interest in genealogy.  The beauty that your photos express will surely inspire many people to see cemeteries in a different way and get them to visit such peaceful places."

Judith, Sacramento, CA. - "I too love cemeteries and photography.  On a recent trip to Idaho for a family reunion, my husband & I trekked through the stubble of a mowed barley field to photograph a small, practically forgotten, cemetery on the very top of a hill.  We took pictures of each marker and the view from the plot.  My intention is to post them online for others, like you and me, doing family history research. Your pictures are so moving.  Thanks very much for sharing.  Keep up the great work.  Just Beautiful!"

Christie, ? - "Do you have any books of your cemetery photos in the stores? Please let me know."