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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Dewi Sant on July 17, 2014, 06:34:12 pm

Title: Aftermath
Post by: Dewi Sant on July 17, 2014, 06:34:12 pm: (http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s656/DewiSantPhotography/France%202014/Europe2104-75aP6210028_zps6dfb8387.jpg) (http://s1310.photobucket.com/user/DewiSantPhotography/media/France%202014/Europe2104-75aP6210028_zps6dfb8387.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Aftermath
Post by: degrub on July 17, 2014, 08:17:32 pm: DDR ?
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Post by: Lonnie Utah on July 17, 2014, 10:05:07 pm: Cool image, but I feel like I need some context in order to connect with it.
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Post by: Paulo Bizarro on July 18, 2014, 03:52:33 am: Very good photo. We have a ruined car in front of ruins. Looks almost like a scene from a movie about WWII?
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Post by: francois on July 18, 2014, 04:36:58 am: Quote from: degrub on July 17, 2014, 08:17:32 pm
DDR ?

Possibly, it looks like a scene taken in eastern Europe…
Title: Re: Aftermath
Post by: Chairman Bill on July 18, 2014, 04:43:01 am: Is it Oradour-sur-Glane?
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Post by: Dewi Sant on July 18, 2014, 05:55:22 am: Quote from: Chairman Bill on July 18, 2014, 04:43:01 am
Is it Oradour-sur-Glane?

Yes
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Post by: luxborealis on July 20, 2014, 09:44:50 am: Thank you for sharing this photo, Dewi, and for identifying the location, Bill. It caused me to do some re arch and learn about a part of the war I was unaware of. Sobering.
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Post by: Fine_Art on July 20, 2014, 06:35:28 pm: I find it a mildly moving image, as in it doesn't grip you like a holocaust image. It moves you to think of the lives that were changed from the civilian wreckage you see. I think it is very well done.
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Post by: Rajan Parrikar on July 20, 2014, 08:48:40 pm: I prefer the colour version Dewi has on his site. The one on the Wiki page for Oradour-sur-Glane is also evocative.
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Post by: Dewi Sant on July 22, 2014, 08:12:08 am: Sorry for the delay in replying. Thanks to all for your comments, I have quite a lot of images of Oradour sur Glane which were taken on my short visit there but chose to post that one simply because it's probably the most published image of the old town and to many people would be immediately recognisable. It is indeed a very sobering place and it doesn't take a very vivid imagination to appreciate the horrors of what took place there.

I wasn't actually going to post it here at all, as I had to justify it to myself as being a "Luminous Landscape", which I'm still not sure that it qualifies as. Yes, as Rajan has noted there is a also a colour version, which on balance I think I prefer. I'm just in the process of putting the photographs taken on our 3 week roadtrip around France / Spain onto my website - I shot over 500, all on an Olympus micro 4/3rds, plus a fair few videos so it may take some time :)