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October Photo a Day: 8 October
It was really tough deciding on how I wanted to present this image. I normally don't do black and white photography, but sometimes I do if the mood it creates is right. I figured the mood is right for this one. Since today's theme is "Angle" I figured it was best to post this image in monochrome because then I think all the angles in it are accentuated.
Attacking in column, beset by terrain, heavy cannon fire and volleys of bullets, McCook's Brigade nevertheless managed to pierce the center of the Confederate line at the Dead Angle. Brutal hand-to-hand fighting broke out between McCook's troops and the Confederate brigades of Vaughan and Maney.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, Marrietta, Georgia
I was talking to the artist/owner. He's an untrained folk artist and this keeps him busy.
Note the snake motif sidewalk.
I saw this on my walk with Ruby yesterday, i think its an Angle Shades caterpillar but not sure of ID
I put my favorite pair of vans on the wall in backyard and angles my camera so that it is looking up at the van with the tree branches in the background to fit the ocean theme of the shoes.
Short, helmeted football payer nutcracker holding a football is lightly embellished with "cosmo jet" crystals as pupils and painted hair with a more subtle glitter as a highlight.
Another shot of the wooden walkways at Government Island park. The walkways themselves are pretty zig-zagged through the park, and the fencing provides for additional interesting angles.
Some stones in a stone circle. The Ethiopians don't understand their meaning, but I like the face and the arrow.
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Bloody Angle, Crowded Ravine
Fighting at the Muleshoe Salient focused on a slight turn in the Confederate earthworks, to your right-front, known as the “Bloody Angle.” The Angle occupied a small knoll that commanded adjacent parts of the Confederate line. Whoever controlled the knoll controlled the Salient. For 22 hours Union and Confederate soldiers vied for possession of the Angle, firing across the works or engaging one another in grim, hand-to-hand combat.
During the battle Union soldiers took cover in the ravine in front of you. Time and again they rushed forward to attack the Angle, only to be beaten back. With each repulse they left the ground between the ravine and the Angle strewn with hundreds of wounded and dying men. Bodies piled up three, four, even five deep, forming what one man described as “a perfect rampart of [the] dead….” By day’s end, up to 17,000 men were killed, wounded, or captured, most within sight of where you are now standing.
The hill dropped abruptly to a branch a short ways in front of the breastworks. The Yanks could come up behind the hill and have a short distance to charge in the open. They massed under the protection of the hill and made a rush at us over their own dead and wounded.
Private David Holt, 16th Mississippi Infantry
One South Dearborn's Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. This building was constructed in 2005 right next to the landmark Inland Steel Building, and was designed with quite a bit of reverence for its neighbor. Part of this reverence is the expansive plaza in front of the building (One South Dearborn is set WAY back from Dearborn, even farther than the Inland). This plaza is full of intriguing surfaces, angles and seating arrangements...all wedges, trapezoids and triangles. The colors complement the surrounding buildings with the blue echoing the inland steel and the black benches matching up with Mies across the street. Would be a great place to scarf a quick weekday lunch, and was a wonderful place for me to rest my sore feet after walking so much on Saturday.
Angles rest is a special area of BFAS where those who cross the rainbow bridge find their final resting place. The gate was designed by Cyrus Mejia who was one of the original founders of Best Friends. Inside the gate hundreds of memorials and markers for beloved animals and the sound of wind chimes create a touching atmosphere.
Must have move a lot during frames in this one, Cropped it on the angle to get more of the image in the shot.
I took a long time figuring out just the right angle on this shot -- again, my fixation with doors becomes apparent: I wanted to show the depth of the arches ad entryways and the way that they overlapped.
Oddly enough, I discovered years later that someone had painted the cover of P.D. James' Devices and Desires from the exact same place, but from an angle only a few degrees different.
I hope I got the meaning correct. This shot is my try at a little humor.
Our Daily Challenge
Dutch Angle
30+ yards of crushed velvet sewn on a severe angle to match the forced perspective of the set. Sewn on a Dressmaker II
An ally in the old town, Hoi An. We liked the small door on the left as it looks like a door to the other world.
Hội An is a city on the coast of the South China Sea in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. It is located in Quảng Nam province and is home to approximately 120,000 inhabitants.
In 1999, the old town was declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO as a well-preserved example of a Southeast Asian trading port of the 15th to 19th centuries, with buildings that display a unique blend of local and foreign influences.
Hội An attracts a fair number of tourists, also being a well-established place on the backpacker trail. Many visit for the numerous art and craft shops and tailors, who produce made-to-measure clothes for a fraction of the Western price. Several Internet cafés, bars and restaurants have opened along the riverfront. Hội An is famed for its centuries old cao lầu noodle, which can only be uniquely served here.The town is also famed for its unique lanterns.