4K Walk - Raleigh, North Carolina - Historic Oakwood Cemetery

A relaxing walk around Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh, North Carolina.

4K video walk for relaxation, stress relief, meditation and insomnia. As with all my videos, this is not looped or layered, this is a real-time recording, filmed by me, using the best mobile microphones, cameras and audio recorders available.

“A place of unique significance, meaning and value to Raleigh, Wake County, the state of North Carolina, and thousands of citizens for more than 140 years, Historic Oakwood Cemetery provides a beautiful park-like setting for the final resting place of a fascinating cross section of over 22,000 of the area’s citizenry, including many prominent city, state and national leaders.

Among the many beautiful monuments and statuary within the cemetery are those of seven governors, five United States Senators, eight Supreme Court Chief Justices of North Carolina, four Civil War generals, two Secretaries of the United States Navy, numerous Raleigh mayors, and thousands of other individuals, some widely known and others known only to their families, but each life’s story constitutes a part of the interesting and colorful history of Raleigh, Wake County and North Carolina.

Oakwood Cemetery encompasses 72 acres, of which 30 acres remain for future needs. Oakwood Cemetery contains over three miles of paved roadways, several thousand feet of wrought iron fencing, a Visitor and Information Center constructed in 1910 of local granite, a Memorial Cremation Garden for cremation burials and a beautiful Chapel Mausoleum for above-ground full body and cremation entombments.

Oakwood Cemetery contains a very special area, the Confederate Cemetery, located on the original two and one-half acres given for that purpose by Henry Mordecai in 1867. Herein lie nearly 1,500 Confederate soldiers. Adjoined with the Confederate Cemetery is the impressive House of Memory. Erected in 1935 to commemorate those brave soldiers of the Confederacy, today its bronze memorial plaques recognize the many North Carolina servicemen and women who have served our country in time of conflict.

The diversity of the Raleigh area, with its wide variety of languages, cultures, religions, and traditions is not lost at Oakwood. Historic Oakwood Cemetery honors all those buried in the cemetery and remains open to all without preference or discrimination relating to race, religion, or national origin.

Valuing the heritage and people of the city, county, and state it serves, the staff at Oakwood Cemetery has conducted detailed research relating to the lives of many of the most notable and colorful individuals buried on its grounds. The Cemetery also preserves interesting information about hundreds of unique monuments, statues, and decorations which dominate the cemetery. This information is readily available to family members, historians, and interested individuals and is presented to student groups and visitors.

Oakwood is widely recognized as an outstanding example of the evolution of 19th Century garden cemeteries from the grid-like church graveyards to spacious, beautifully landscaped gardens and parks located away from fast paced city life. These “modern” cemeteries were designed to be resting-places for the deceased which could be enjoyed by the living and a place designed to “pay respects to the dead while celebrating life.”

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Filming equipment:

Cameras:
– Panasonic Lumix GH5
– Panasonic Lumix GH5S
– Sony Alpha A6600

Lenses:
– Panasonic 8-18 f2.8-4
– Sony E 70-350mm f/4.5-6.3 G OSS
– Sony E 10-18mm f/4 OSS
– Venus Optics Laowa 7.5mm f/2

Stabilizers
– Zhiyun-Tech WEEBILL-S
– DJI Ronin-S

Audio:
– Rode Stereo Videomic X microphone
– Sound Professionals SP-TFB-2 binaural microphone
– Sound Professionals MS-EHB-2 binaural microphone
– 3Dio Free Space XLR Binaural Microphone
– Sound Devices MixPre-3 II
– Zoom H6 Handy Recorder
– Zoom H1n Handy Recorder

Editing:
– Final Cut Pro X
– Izotope RX 7
– 2016 iMac 27inch
– 2019 Macbook Pro

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