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Dear John,
This war is awful. It doesn't start to set it until you've experienced it, nothing like I've ever felt before. Our battalion tried to make a move out of our trench, unknowing of what would happen. The whistles blew and our captain climbed the ladder, followed by several other men, only to get riddled with German ammunition. The rest of the battalion tried to charge forward but mortar fire cut us short. We received quick orders to retreat back into the trenches, dragging wounded along with us. I vividly remember a man laying out in no man's land. He was screaming for his mother, I don't think he realized both his legs were severed at the knee. One soldier tried to go and drag him back but a German sniper was ready for him. The soldier dropped like a sack of potatoes next to the man yelling for his mother, slowly dying on the ground. Its been almost 15 minutes after we retreated, wounded are everywhere and medical supplies are running low. Along side that, the war is taking a toll of us mentally. Just moments ago medical personnel was bringing a man back to the makeshift med station, he looked as he was possessed by satin himself. Don't worry though, I hear talk that this war may be over soon. Hopefully it's true.
Your brother,
Issac Benson
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slight increase in...umm okay, so "slight" might be a little bit of an understatement... grandiloquent increase in manipulating, layering and a whole lot of crazy shit (post process)... plus contrast :-)
My first association from this viewpoint was a post-nuclear forest, but then I saw the positive sense of fulfilled purpose :)
Cover of PhotoPoetics 3-Jun-2015
There is one road / we hardly know / as you can guess / that's the road we go. // More insight / do we have / about other people's paths. // Somewhere / between our view / and understanding / lies the aftermath.
My first real Art shot in a long time!
Burning off in autumn - 2009. This was the most boring burn off, canola stubble usually is ... its spindly and doesn't burn. this part however was great because the wind did something cool and the smoke just swirled past in a drift.
Sunrise this morning in the park where the fireworks display was held. The bonfire was still burning.
Yuba glaring at Tigger for interrupting his triumphant theft of my chair at the kitchen table. Tigger tried to (playfully) attack Yuba and he wasn't having any of it...
© Darlene Bushue 2020
The aftermath....
Parts of Rocky Mountain National Park reopened to the public on Friday, and I took a drive into the park early Saturday morning and up to Many Parks Curve to see the aftermath of the Thompson Zone of the East Troublesome fire. This image shows the burn scars to both Upper Beaver Meadows (in the foreground) and part of Moraine Park (in the middle). The YMCA camp is in the background so you can see just how close the fire came to that area. Many thanks to the firefighters who prevented that spread from happening and to Mother Nature who dumped over a foot of snow in the area just days after the fire spread which slowed down the progression.
According to an article in National Geographic about the ecological benefits of fire, "it might seem counterintuitive that a fire, which burns plant life and endangers animals within an ecosystem, could promote ecological health. But fire is a natural phenomenon, and nature has evolved with its presence. Many ecosystems benefit from periodic fires, because they clear out dead organic material—and some plant and animal populations require the benefits fire brings to survive and reproduce."
Looking forward to what next spring holds for this area.
Inlay booklet CD artwork studies for the US band Serianna (Bullet Tooth Records USA).
Work in progress...
The Cameron Peak Fire burned for 62 days in 2020, becoming the largest wild fire recorded in the state of Colorado. 209,000 acres of pristine forest and 461 structures were destroyed. Flash floods in the burn area have taken several lives and caused more damage in 2021. Drinking water quality for some front range cities has been threatened.
Death & birth. Such a contrast between the old growth and the new. Southeast Australian bushfires 2020.
Happy New Year!
This is a companion image to go with yesterday's post. Yesterday was the "before shot".
I am looking forward to shooting and posting more in 2016. I love the community here on flickr and am grateful to all of you for all of your beautiful, clever, fun and inspiring images. Here's to a GREAT 2016!
I am definitely going to do a 100x project this year and am still sorting out what the "x" will be. I have so many ideas that I want to develop and will decide shortly!
SP1 in 2016
Not a cloud in the sky after the last few days droppings, the sum of which is here depicted. And the bright, blue skies are expected to last...until tomorrow when (yes, you guessed it) more snow is in the forecast. We have already smashed the record for April snowfall with 41.8 inches (106.17 cm) so far....and it's only the 20th. April showers of a different sort...
Much of the top of Mesa Verde has seen recent wildfires. The mesa attracts a lot of lightning strikes.
Plan has been the last 10 days to try and get some strength back and battle this fatigue that tests so far have come up blank , i need to return to work 22nd this month , been off now 4 months with no answers , last Friday did this walk its 400 yards from the car , last walk easy today every step with heavy legs , i love the aftermath for photo opportunities , i dislike the way the landscape was torn apart and not left as it should have been.
Some more compositions and more to be done.
Again not the planned location , i have plans for that once the conditions are right .
Also using the long lens V`s wide angle .
A sight to behold monday afternoon after sunday's massive snow blizzard.
It was very cold but the sky was clear & the sun was shining. Only one tiny
speck of snow remains on a centre branch. Best viewed large.
Taken in the victorian gardens, st james cathedral park.
Happy holidays everyone. Take it easy!
explore #169. Thanks everyone for your support.