Stone Angel

Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon 18-70
f/4.2 at 1/200
ISO 100

Last night I was watching a movie called “The Stone Angel” where a family plot in a small graveyard played an important roll in the main character’s reflection on her life. I immediately made a connection between the angel in the film and this picture I took last year in a cemetery in Dundas, Ontario.

This is where I grew up and most of my family is buried here. For some reason this stone angel captured my attention. I still am not quite sure why. Perhaps it’s her facial expression? There is a certain sadness I sense in her gaze that is fitting for such a place.

Perhaps it is something more spiritual, something I have suppressed within for most of my life that she is trying to draw to the surface. Perhaps it’s her permanence that I envy as I reflect on the fragility of flesh and blood. Whatever it was, she will stand there long after most of us are gone.