To my personal opinion, this is definitely a landscape, rather minimal but it is, and I like it a lot!Lake near Macedon, Victoria, Australia .
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Not sure if this is a landscape or a still life.
Pentax 67 165mm lens 6 stop ND filter, 1 minute f5.6 shot on TX. Developed in D23 16 minutes.
Sadly I can't make wet prints because the TX, which was out of date, had very bad backing paper imprints which were removed on the scan.
Lake near Macedon, Victoria, Australia .
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Not sure if this is a landscape or a still life.
Pentax 67 165mm lens 6 stop ND filter, 1 minute f5.6 shot on TX. Developed in D23 16 minutes.
Sadly I can't make wet prints because the TX, which was out of date, had very bad backing paper imprints which were removed on the scan.
To my personal opinion, this is definitely a landscape, rather minimal but it is, and I like it a lot!
It's a relief to feel not alone (what I often do over here)...Agreed. On all points.
I like the second the most, wel done!I like the pictures on this page (well, above the present post; below cant say). Especially the last two by markbau and Philipe-Georges. If they qualify as landscapes, so would these. F4, D-76 1+1, FM2N, 24mm, 85mm.
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It's a relief to feel not alone (what I often do over here)...
But I very much enjoy the posts even when I don't say so.
The same is true of several other posters
Very nice photograph Phillipe, we must be on the same photographic wavelength as the very next frame after the one of the sticks is this. I don't like it, the background is too sharp and too bright and it is a very hard area to burn down but thought you'd enjoy our kindred photos from opposite sides of the planet!Markbau, this one is for you...
'Looking down', Scheldemeersen near Gent, Flanders, Belgium.
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Hasselblad 500C/M + Planar 80mm + Yellow filter on Tri-X 400ASA processed in Pyrocat-HD (but at little too high temperature hence the gritty grain).
Let's go on...Very nice photograph Phillipe, we must be on the same photographic wavelength as the very next frame after the one of the sticks is this. I don't like it, the background is too sharp and too bright and it is a very hard area to burn down but thought you'd enjoy our kindred photos from opposite sides of the planet!
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We should always remember what misery the war does, sadly some very stupid man has forgotten that!
PS: where my roots are, we have a lot of Australian military graveyards from WWI, and every year many Australians come to vist the former frontline, along English, Canadians, New-Zeelanders, French, Germans and so many others...
We should always remember what misery the war does, sadly some very stupid man has forgotten that!
Lake near Macedon, Victoria, Australia .
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Not sure if this is a landscape or a still life.
One of the reasons I enjoy your photographs is that I have a friend in Flanders. We've toured the area and visited some of what you have documented.
Not the best of my photos, but they're online and they're some of my favorite, so here they are.
A hundred years later they still maintain these sites like they are new. In the summer they're green with grass, flowers and in some places people will even leave a little something at the memorial. A picture of a great grandfather with flower or something. They still blow the Last Post at the Menin gate in Ypres every night for 90 of the last 95 years. Places like Tyne Cot are beautiful, sad, and remarkably moving.
For centuries, Belgium was where Europe went to fight their wars. The folks in Flanders got the worst of WWI and wanted people to never forget.
It's complicated. Everything in life ebbs and flows in circular, spiraling patterns - what was old, is new again after couple of generations and it just seems that another such cycle is repeating itself to take away our illusions about global peace - hell, even peace on a single continent. It's not fun to live next to a miltant, backwards country that's susceptible to these patterns of anger, disgust, revolt and victory. A country that teaches alternate history in their History classes, that hasn't really confronted its war mistakes (history is written by victors, eh?), haven't learned from them, thus is prone to repeating the same mistakes.This is what is left of a generation of brave young men after that a few criminal fools got delusional, this should be a permanent wake up call...
Just a caution here.
We are trying to eliminate political and current events discussions unless they are specific to photography.
For now, I'm leaving Phillipe-Georges' thoughtful commentary to his war memorial photo in place, along with Ivo Stunga's thoughtful response to that commentary.
But if there are further responses, all will be deleted, leaving only the photo.
The photo (along with identifying information) is powerful commentary on its own, and it is within the ambit of our photography website.
Thanks for heads up! Good, it just tends to muddy the waters and break relationships needlessly.Just a caution here.
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