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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:46 pm    Post subject: Ashes to ashes... Reply with quote

...dust to dust. It's good to remind ourselves of the fact that we're only here for a short time, and that we really should make the best of it.


With Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f/4 Sonnar (Alu):

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Awesome series , you handle very, very well dof, colors ... Congrats!


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very evocative. Can you tell us where the last two were taken ?


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks! The last two were made on the same cemetery here in Ede, The Netherlands. A very small part of this cemetery is for those who fell during Operation Market Garden. I live just 5 kilometres from the place where the planes landed in September, 1944 (the biggest air operation in history). Some of you may have seen Richard Attenborough's movie "A Bridge Too Far" (or at least have read Cornelius' Ryan's book with the same title): this all took place close to my home.

More about Operation Market Garden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 6:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonderful pictures!

My favourites are Nos 1,4 and 8.


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Outstanding pictrures!!!


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many thanks for the information. The pictures brought back memories of our family's visit to Bayeux a few years ago when we went to find my wife's uncle's grave.

Many people in the UK will be familiar with the film. They might not know the operation by it's name 'Market Garden' but simply by 'Arnhem'.


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Outstanding series. I love your way of playing with wide apertures ....

Cheers
Tobias


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is a mind-blowing series of shots - the colours, the subjects, the range of depth - all perfect!


PostPosted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I hope you dont mind me tagging on a few pictures, I love the colour you have got with your alu sonnar, I struggle to achieve the saturation your getting there. 6 and 12 are awesome beautifully lit very poignant. Here are some Kowa 6 scans you pictures reminded me of the war graves cemetery near my parents house in Southampton. (film tx400)



PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:17 am    Post subject: Re: Ashes to ashes... Reply with quote

Spotmatic wrote:
...dust to dust. It's good to remind ourselves of the fact that we're only here for a short time, and that we really should make the best of it.


With Carl Zeiss Jena 135mm f/4 Sonnar (Alu):


Amazing shots !


PostPosted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent series!
2, 4, 6 are my favorites.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks everyone!

I have tried a B/W conversion. Did it work out?



PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent series !!
Love no 14 !!


PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wonderful series and you are so right. Our lifetime is just a blink of the eye in time.


PostPosted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I find a lot of history is revealed in these older cemeteries. Here in the Wild West we have graves of people from all over the world who obviously came for a better life, and sometimes found it. In my immediate area I have pics of almost every European country, plus China, Japan. Capsule history of the railroads here and gold mining.
That is a spectacular series Peter and that little piece of WWII history makes it very real.


patrickh