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Boer War Memorial (1899-1902)
Boer War Memorial (1899-1902)
HarveyG


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Military (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D90
Lens: Sigma 28-70mm f/2.8 EX DG for Nikon
Location: South African National Museum of Military History
Date: Nov 14, 2010
Aperture: f/9
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/160s
Galleries: Black and White, Military
Date Uploaded: Nov 14, 2010

 I did a lot of work in adjustment layers as per basic rule set to emphasise the ominous cloud and light up the statue. I wanted to portray the feeling of gloom and despair of war in this image. Let's see if any comments pick(ed) that up. I'd be happy with a few useful comments. I can't begin to guess what it might score.

Taken at the Ditsong South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg.

Ditsong's website here.

I dedicate this image to all the people who died during the Second Boer War, 1899-1902, many wives and children of Boers captured by the English and placed into a new English prison system; the Concentration Camp, (long before Hitler and his henchmen) where they were starved or fed ground glass in their food to kill them off. The sanitation was appalling as was the overall lack of care of Prisoners of War to force the Boers (fathers and husbands) to surrender. The English also pursued a policy of "Scorched Earth", destroying every farm, house, store room and all livestock of the Boers. No reparations or apologies have ever been made to the Afrikaner nation for these war crimes and no one has ever been punished for them. History has always been written by the victors.

And now to the 3rd Boer War, that since a "democratic" South Africa in 1994 and ANC Government, over 1600 1700 farmers in South Africa have been systematically murdered (figure excludes their families, often also murdered at the same time).

Some are calling it boer genocide.

NEF-JPG by camera
Copy, Copy Again, Adjustment Layers: Curves, USM, Black and White, Color Balance, Selective Color, Crop, Borders, SFW.

Post Challenge: Thank you all for voting, commenting and 2 faves! Much appreciated. I am surprised it got a top 10. The low-baller votes tell me something too...that I'm on the right track learning digital PP and they hate competition!

Statistics
Place: 9 out of 51
Avg (all users): 6.2283
Avg (commenters): 7.8000
Avg (participants): 5.5000
Avg (non-participants): 6.3375
Views since voting: 2025
Views during voting: 335
Votes: 184
Comments: 8
Favorites: 2 (view)

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Canon EOS-7D Mark II
Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
11/24/2010 12:51:27 AM
A really good "feel" photo. You did bring out the lines and grittyness so well.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-6D
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 11/23/2010 11:59:14 PM
Lovely. (not voting)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sigma DP1x
11/21/2010 06:23:43 PM
Good to see it from this point of view, as a casual observer (visiting in person) might not see in quite such splendor. The lines and angles and dramatic sky frame the statue nicely.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 11/21/2010 01:14:32 PM
Nice :)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D750
Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED
 11/17/2010 10:14:58 PM
What an intense and foreboding sky. I really like how the angel is highlighted (there IS a positive side to pigeon droppings!!!), and how the complexity of the statue is underscored by the strong but simple lines of the monument.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon D4s
Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED
 11/17/2010 08:19:26 PM
Very nice tones and lines
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L Macro IS USM
 11/17/2010 08:07:37 PM
nice sky add a dramatic touch
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Olympus OM-D E-M5
Panasonic Leica DG Vario-Elmarit 8-18mm f/2.8-4 ASPH
 11/17/2010 02:54:00 PM
Very nice angle and processing give a dramatic view of the angel on the Anglo-Boer War Memorial at the South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
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