“Grave Images,” an art photography book published by the Museum of New Mexico Press, is a remarkable coffee table book of photographs of San Luis Valley gravestone and cemeteries.

Kathy Hettinga began taking gravestone photographs in 1994 after her husband died. Ms. Hettinga grew up in Alamosa and now lives in Pennsylvania, returning to the San Luis Valley each summer where she maintains a studio. She has taken over 9000 photographs memorializing the departed, but still remembered as their unique and personal markers are beautifully documented in her photographs.

The full story is in the Denver Post, Sunday November 1, 2009, edition on page 5B.