This coastal city is a hot, moist and humid place for much of the year. Bonaventure Cemetery is known as a “City of the Dead,” set within an environment of intensely thriving plant life. Many of Bonaventure’s monuments are cleaned regularly, and are pristine. However other grave monuments have fallen into disrepair, drastically altered by the effects of time itself. I used a telephoto lens here to emphasize the toll that nature can take upon these monuments to the dead. This discolored marble figure seems to acknowledge this toll, bending its head in acquiescence.