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I took 15 pictures of this red dragonfly, and another 15-25 of an orange one closer to the wetlands, but only 4 turned out in focus... It is the drawback of macro photography with a telephoto lens while riding a bike through a state park. Either way, at least I got a shot I liked.
It was cold and it was dark. He felt an unbelievable pain gripping his entire body and at first Joseph could not recall how he got there and what had happened. Then the whole ghastly event came flooding back to him. The 22nd March 1943 the Nazis arrived in the village of Khatyn, rounding up all its inhabitants and herding them like cattle into the barn. With the roof covered in straw and the doors barred, the barn was doused in petrol and set alight. Joseph could both see and hear his friends and family die in the flames, burnt alive. And now, all that was left of his village was him, and the ashes. Joseph went looking for his son, and cradled his badly burnt, but still breathing, body in his arms, where he later died.
26 households were razed to the ground and 149 people died that day at Khatyn. Joseph Kaminsky, the blacksmith, was the only one to survive. Khatyn was one of 186 villages in Belarus to suffer a similar fate during WWII and forever be wiped off the face of the earth. A further 433 villages were also totally destroyed, but were later rebuilt after the war. 2,230,000 people perished in total, one in four of the population.
Not many memorials have moved me in the way Khatyn did. The only sounds were the ringing of the 26 bells – each one erected where a home once stood – at 30 second intervals, and the surreal clatter of a distant woodpecker. The eerie silence, the fitting hail storm and the ghostlike emptiness came together to overwhelm me totally.
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I loved this photograph so much, that I decided to edit it in Photoshop and change it to black and white. I loved it way more in black and white, because it really highlighted the clouds and the body of the electric tower a lot more, while also shadowing everything beneath it.
I had the most beautiful sky to work with for a backdrop in my shot. I loved the repetition of the electric towers, where you could see them for miles through the Kansas fields. While they trail off in size, I wanted to capture the photograph from a perspective that captures how truly massive they really are.
The leading lines in the tower leads you right up to that beautiful blue sky with beautiful clouds. I used the Rule of Thirds for composition, putting the tower on the left of the shot.
I used Photoshop to adjust the contrast, highlights, and shadows, to show more depth and contouring of the clouds in the sky.
Listen to Body Electric by Lana Del Rey
The New Pornographers (Mass Romantic + Twin Cinema Fall Tour) @ 9:30 Club, Washington, DC, On Thursday December 2, 2021.
Mass Romantic + Twin Cinema Fall Tour Setlist:
Twin Cinema:
Twin Cinema
The Bones of an Idol
Use It
The Bleeding Heart Show
Jackie, Dressed in Cobras
The Jessica Numbers
These are the Fables
Sing Me Spanish Techno
Falling Through Your Clothes
Broken Breads
Three or Four
Star Bodies
Streets of Fire (Destroyer cover)
Stacked Crooked
Myriad Harbour
Champions of Red Wine
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism
Falling Down the Stairs of Your Smile
The Spirit of Giving
Whiteout Conditions
Sweet Talk, Sweet Talk
War On the East Coast
All the Old Showstoppers
Testament to Youth in Verse
Letter From an Occupant
Seth traded this 63 Jazz Bass for a new bass because the Jazz came in as a huge mess and would have cost the owner thousands in restoration labor and replacement parts. A few weeks later and this beauty looks brand new.