Ypres and the Somme

[olf]

Paid a visit to the killing fields of Europe at the weekend. I took a few photos but not nearly as many as I would normally take or with as much enthusiasm as normal. Not only does the camera fail to capture your immediate impressions but it also seems a lot less, well, worthwhile because you can't even capture in your own mind how immense a tradgedy WW1 was, let alone try to capture it in a few snaps.

Anyway for what it's worth I liked this one. I took a photo of the back of the graves because I was stunned how many of the graves were nameless so photographing the fronts often told you little more than the back.

[gopher]

Good shot, poignant.

For those interested I came across a series of steroscopic pictures taken during the Great War posted by someone on the news group alt.binaries.pictures.military today, some of which could make it into the picture thread in the P & P.

Very interesting IMO.


Cheers

Paul

[olf]

gopher said:

Good shot, poignant.

For those interested I came across a series of steroscopic pictures taken during the Great War posted by someone on the news group alt.binaries.pictures.military today, some of which could make it into the picture thread in the P & P.

Very interesting IMO.


Cheers

Paul

Cheers. Yes I would be intereted in those. Not sure how to access alt dots anymore on my mac - used to do it via windows.

We stayed in a fantastic B&B which had been a field hospital during WW1, still owned by the sme family and boy did they know how to cook.

[gopher]

olf said:

gopher said:

Good shot, poignant.

For those interested I came across a series of steroscopic pictures taken during the Great War posted by someone on the news group alt.binaries.pictures.military today, some of which could make it into the picture thread in the P & P.

Very interesting IMO.


Cheers

Paul

Cheers. Yes I would be intereted in those. Not sure how to access alt dots anymore on my mac - used to do it via windows.

We stayed in a fantastic B&B which had been a field hospital during WW1, still owned by the sme family and boy did they know how to cook.

Try googling for --> nntp client mac it seems there's a few options.

[olf]

Thanks. I shall do my research!

[Fruitcake]

olf said:

Paid a visit to the killing fields of Europe at the weekend. I took a few photos but not nearly as many as I would normally take or with as much enthusiasm as normal. Not only does the camera fail to capture your immediate impressions but it also seems a lot less, well, worthwhile because you can't even capture in your own mind how immense a tradgedy WW1 was, let alone try to capture it in a few snaps.

Anyway for what it's worth I liked this one. I took a photo of the back of the graves because I was stunned how many of the graves were nameless so photographing the fronts often told you little more than the back.

It's a good pic, really brings out the greyish tone to the stones (and no I'm not joking) but please try to take them from the front and not the back