Some of the grave sites are hard to find, even if you are provided with lot or plot numbers. And in the morning hours, the grass is likely to be dewy. Pierce Lyden , cowboy actor Glenn Luther Martin , airplane inventor Pamela Courson , longtime companion of the Doors' Jim Morrison. You may notice that the images in the story are different. That's because they were shot on infrared film, which is sensitive to a different part of the light spectrum.
Infrared film sees infrared light waves, invisible to the naked eye.
The effects are somewhat surreal. Foliage and red roses turn white, blue skies turn very dark, and the image acquires an otherworldly glow. I chose infrared film for this assignment for two reasons. Graves and headstones tend to be stagnant things, and I wanted to make the images more interesting. Second, since we were talking about people who are only memories to us now, I wanted to remove the stark reality of gravesites and replace it with something more representative.