Esther's photos with the keyword: death

2014 United States National Figure Skating Championships - Championship Pairs Free Skate - Gold medalists Marissa Castelli and Simon Shnapir AIMG 1881

2014 United States National Figure Skating Championship - Junior Pairs Free Skate - Bronze medalists AnnaMarie Pearce and Jason Pacini AIMG 1536

2014 United States National Figure Skating Championship - Championship Pairs Short Program - Alexandria Schaughnessy and James Morgan AIMG 1257

2014 United States National Figure Skating Championships - Junior Pairs Short Program - Alyssa McDougal and Paul Schatz AIMG 1011

2014 United States National Figure Skating Championship. The winners of the competition, Ai Setoyama and David Botero, performing a back inside death spiral AIMG 0478

Ice Chips 2012 - Gretchen Donlan and Andrew Speroff do an unusual take on a death spiral AIMG_5202

Pompeii, Italy with Mt. Vesuvius in the background. Pompeii was founded sometime between the 8th–6th centuries BC. After numerous conquests, it eventually became a Roman town. It was destroyed in, 79 AD when Mt. Vesuvius erupted. Most people are believed to have died by the searing heat (250 degrees C). Afterwards, the town was covered in layers of ash, which preserved the ruins. The eruption was documented by Pliny the Younger who watched it from across the Bay of Naples. The town was eventually forgotten about and it was not until 1599 that it was rediscovered during an project to divert the Sarno River. It was then forgotten about until 1748. Major excavations continued for years thereafter. In the mid 19th Century, Giuseppe Fiorelli led the architctural recovery. He determined that spaces in the ash layer containing human remains had been left by the decomposed bodies. He injected plaster into the spaces to recreate the forms of Vesuvius's victims. AIMG_3256

This marble skeleton memorial can be found in the beautiful Santa Maria del Popolo Church in Rome, Italy. It marks the tomb of the Polish architect, G.B. Gisleni, who created it two years before he died in 1672. The inscription on the side says, "Neither dead here nor here living." ODT: Out with the old AIMG_2778