DirtyGlassEye
Fountain of Prayers
Shooting, what looks like, around 60-80 ft in the air, the Fountain Of Prayers greets guests to the Peace Memorial Park on a solemn note, as one would likely expect in a city now defined by how it was ripped to shreds by atomic fire 80 years ago.
Because I'm proud of my home nation, I thought it best that a person like me should not go into a place that would likely preach against the USA (which in this one particular case I understand why but still). And boy am I glad I did, people were being escorted out of the building every couple of minutes, and they were all foreigners. Makes me glad I at least have SOME form of self control. This fountain out front is what drew me here. I had an amazing foreground to work with. The diverting pathways on the left or right, and the museum behind it (looks a little like it was made in LA), there was a patch of flowers behind me, closer to the street, but the frame from back there didn't look really good.
The top of the geyser was out of the frame in the original shot, so I knew I had to rectify that. I expanded the top border and put a copy of the shot above behind it and edited around it. The temperatures and saturations didn't need much changing as there wasn't a whole lot of color to work with, which I guess is fitting for this place's atmosphere.
Personally I cannot condemn the US for what they did. Knowing Japanese culture, there is absolutely no way the war would've ended without that event. Now don't think I'm a warmonger, I don't endorse atomic war, and no one should, I'm actually glad Hiroshima has been advocating for the end of atomic warfare ever since, cause that is indeed something the world needs to be rid of. I view that one occasion as a necessary action. I love the USA and Japan a lot and am proud of how far they've come since then.
Again, don't think of me as someone who supports the idea of war, I do not. I'll pray for all those who died
Fountain of Prayers
Shooting, what looks like, around 60-80 ft in the air, the Fountain Of Prayers greets guests to the Peace Memorial Park on a solemn note, as one would likely expect in a city now defined by how it was ripped to shreds by atomic fire 80 years ago.
Because I'm proud of my home nation, I thought it best that a person like me should not go into a place that would likely preach against the USA (which in this one particular case I understand why but still). And boy am I glad I did, people were being escorted out of the building every couple of minutes, and they were all foreigners. Makes me glad I at least have SOME form of self control. This fountain out front is what drew me here. I had an amazing foreground to work with. The diverting pathways on the left or right, and the museum behind it (looks a little like it was made in LA), there was a patch of flowers behind me, closer to the street, but the frame from back there didn't look really good.
The top of the geyser was out of the frame in the original shot, so I knew I had to rectify that. I expanded the top border and put a copy of the shot above behind it and edited around it. The temperatures and saturations didn't need much changing as there wasn't a whole lot of color to work with, which I guess is fitting for this place's atmosphere.
Personally I cannot condemn the US for what they did. Knowing Japanese culture, there is absolutely no way the war would've ended without that event. Now don't think I'm a warmonger, I don't endorse atomic war, and no one should, I'm actually glad Hiroshima has been advocating for the end of atomic warfare ever since, cause that is indeed something the world needs to be rid of. I view that one occasion as a necessary action. I love the USA and Japan a lot and am proud of how far they've come since then.
Again, don't think of me as someone who supports the idea of war, I do not. I'll pray for all those who died