Fog Muse

A foggy morning in Bonaventure Cemetery. Bonaventure is not particularly ancient. It is just particularly Savannah. Along with Laurel Grove cemetery, it is one of the post Colonial era cemeteries in Savannah. It is situated on a sandy bluff overlooking the Wilmington River, heavily wooded, begun in the early 1800s. It is a cross section of Savannah life in the Low Country South Georgia, full of a port city's immigrant people (Jewish, Irish, Greek, German, Scot) interspersed with old money native sons and daughters, the nouveau riche, the merchant princes, the Civil War heroes and favorite sons (Johnny Mercer, for example). There are a thousand stories, known and unknown here. It has a rich patina of age.

This particular monument is the gravestone of a "Native Son", Thomas Nichol Theus. "Thomas Nichol Theus, a well known Savannahian who was prominently related in Georgia and South Carolina, died at an early hour this morning. He made a dying request that he be buried in Confederate gray, and he himself named six pall-bearers, all Confederate veterans." [Macon Telegraph(Georgia), 29 November 1903, pg. 2. His granddaughter-in-law and great granddaughter were and are members of my church.

Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoyed the historical minutia as well.

Camera Info:    Nikon D750, HH
Lens:    VR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G
Focal Length:    62mm
Focus Mode:    AF-C
AF-Area Mode:    Single
VR:    ON
Aperture:    f/8
Shutter Speed:    1/100s
Exposure Mode:    Aperture Priority
Exposure Comp.:    0EV
Metering:    Matrix
ISO Sensitivity:    ISO 800
85% of full frame
PP in LRCC 2015, PSCC 2015, Silver Efex Pro 2, ACR filter