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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Chris Calohan on May 17, 2014, 12:18:03 am

Title: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: Chris Calohan on May 17, 2014, 12:18:03 am

Did it in conjunction with the second shot, an older movie showing at a renovated Art Deco community theater,

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: wolfnowl on May 17, 2014, 01:34:30 am

Took me a second to figure out the first one. Well done!

Mike.

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: sdwilsonsct on May 17, 2014, 09:57:30 am

Good one!

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: Colorwave on May 17, 2014, 08:18:25 pm

The bridge photo is spectacular.  Well done!

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 19, 2014, 04:14:58 am

#1 is really good.

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: francois on May 19, 2014, 07:49:13 am

Love the first photo, great lines.
Bravo

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: Chris Calohan on May 19, 2014, 04:55:30 pm

Thanks, all. There is a bit of a side story to the making of these images. My father's boyhood friend was one of the thousands of victims from the infamous Death March at Bataan. He was really quite pained by Frank's death and while he didn't really hold great animosity toward the Japanese (anymore than he did the Germans) immediately following the cessation of hostilities, years later he watched a documentary film on the march, the footage taken from Japanese soldiers and one of the men killed along the way seemingly only for lagging a bit behind the man in front of him, was my father's friend. He was beheaded, badly botched job of it and all. I know from that day forward, until he died he wouldn't have any doing's which involved anyone of Japanese descent. I never was able to take a side with him and though he knew one of my best friends was Nisei, she was never allowed into the house when he was home. Seeing the marquee brought back some interesting memories. Strange how things affect people. I guess.

Title: Re: Not "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," but nonetheless, a pretty nice bridge.
Post by: Roger S. on May 19, 2014, 09:25:33 pm

Wow! What a picture (the first one). I did not know one can do that!!! I have also read a book on that terrible death march where I think 25000 lives perished. The Japanese Imperial Army was really something else but let's not get there though.