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Shots of a French village preserved for all time, in the memory of the 642 men, women and children murdered there during one fateful day in 1944. Only metal objects survived the fires, most notably cars and sewing machines. The full story here

http://www.oradour.info/

All taken with the OMD and either the 7-14mm, 12-35mm or 40-150mm. PP'ed sympathetically to the era.























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Moving images. I remember the first time I saw this on 'The world at war' with Olivier's understated tones.

Never again, if only.

Thanks for sharing.

Jon.
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Some very well thought out and accomplished perspectives, Tony. Served well in B&W. Haunting.
 
What a sad, horrible story. The sewing machine is the most haunting to me.

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You know how sometimes you just feel so tiny, so small in this world, well guess what mate. Some shots just have so much feeling in them and this is one set for me Tony. Must say superb work on these and excellent results. After a bit of reading it makes me realise why I feel so good taking nature shots. Gulp !!. I won't ask why or how, nothing would makes sense. A huge thanks Tony for a bit of reality.

All the best over your way mate, if you ever get a chance to get here, let me know ;)

Danny.

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Very well done.

Danny.
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The Jacal said:
Moving images. I remember the first time I saw this on 'The world at war' with Olivier's understated tones.

Never again, if only.

Thanks for sharing.

Jon.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/7467981@N05/

Tell the truth and shame the Devil, even though he doesn't really exist.
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Thanks, I loved that series, it's still as relevant today as it was when it was released.
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Any problem on earth can be solved by a well aimed Pomegranate...
Tony
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nzmacro said:
You know how sometimes you just feel so tiny, so small in this world, well guess what mate. Some shots just have so much feeling in them and this is one set for me Tony. Must say superb work on these and excellent results. After a bit of reading it makes me realise why I feel so good taking nature shots. Gulp !!. I won't ask why or how, nothing would makes sense. A huge thanks Tony for a bit of reality.

All the best over your way mate, if you ever get a chance to get here, let me know ;)

Danny.

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Birds and macro. NEX and m4/3

http://www.birdsinaction.com

Worry about the image that comes out of the box, rather than the box itself.
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Thanks Danny, I always enjoy your stuff even if I do often go for the darker side of life. I think there's a place and context for it all. I do have some more upbeat stuff from France as well and I will get over to NZ one day :).
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Any problem on earth can be solved by a well aimed Pomegranate...
Tony
http://the-random-photographer.blogspot.com/
 
Great pics. I have just put one of my children on ebay to fund a 7-14.

I think the place is badly served by its new visitor centre which doesn't serve the site specifically but generalises about atrocities. And this particular atrocity, though sadly common in the eastern theatre, is unique on the Western front. As far as Jersey goes, this was the only bit of occupied Britain and the German forces were ordered to be the ne plus ultra of gentlemanly conduct (in the hope that the rest of Britain would feel less apprehensive about German occupation). If you think that's how the occupying forces behaved generally then you need to read some history or look again at the pictures.

These are taken with the 9-18 and the 12-60 and are pretty much SOOC.























 
Great pictures that will help that it will not be forgotten!!!
 
It's hard to say nice photos for such an awful place, but they are well done.

Here's the wikipedia page for the village: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane

Some of the soliders were prosecuted for war crimes, although those in the GDR couldn't be extradited. Also it looks like the British would not extradite the person who gave the orders for the massacre from their sector of West Germany. Also of note is that some of the soldiers committing the massacre were Alsatian. What a messed up time.

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Hmm. Sorry to be the dissident here but converting to tinted gray-scale and adding lots of grain to reproduce what we think of as a "period" film look simply adds something that seems to me self-consciously arty. It adds phoniness rather than authenticity, IMO.

The world is well supplied with sites that commemorate the legacy of atrocities but I'm not at all sure how (or even why, documentation aside) they should be turned into something that aspires to the condition of art. I recall walking around S21 extermination camp in Phnom Penh many years ago and although I'm not exactly over-sensitive I stopped snapping after a few frames despite the fact that the opportunities to make striking images were plentiful. Probably because the place is characterised, uniquely, by the thousands of "period" B&W portraits of the victims who passed through S21 on the way to the Choeung Ek killing fields.

Roy
 
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