Dragon Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 These were taken (by me) at and near le Linge in the Vosges at dusk last weekend. The temperatures were minus 8 degrees celsius, with about 10 - 15 cm of snow. I would add that many routes were impassable, we only used cleared and gritted roads, and we ventured only a little way along the path at le Linge, with which I'm reasonably familiar. I don't take risks. (All pictures reduced in size and compressed for the Forum.) Barbed wire, trench: Posts: More abstract: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 21 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 21 December , 2007 The only visitor these men had was a fox or other mammal, whose paw prints were cut into the snow. I have more images of this charged place, which was entirely deserted that afternoon. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 Gwyn, Thanks for sharing these pictures. Would be happy to see more. Always interesting to view the different seasons in these locations, all the more so when they are infrequently visited. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanCurragh Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 Wonderful pictures, Gwyn, many thanks for posting. Looking forward to seeing more... Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 Gwyn: top notch quality , thanks for sharing!!! P.S. Do you want to become a professional photographer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 If that is the nearest German Cemetery to le Linge I know just where it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Johnson Posted 21 December , 2007 Share Posted 21 December , 2007 Gwyn, Please post these in War Art as well. Magnificent pictures! The first is now my desktop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 21 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 21 December , 2007 Thank you very much. I just need some time to edit images. Paul, yes, le Hohrod German Cemetery. Picture to come. Egbert, I wish......! Meanwhile, December decorated some men's temporary home with.... solid, sharp icicles (from bunker roof). Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 24 December , 2007 Share Posted 24 December , 2007 More to come Gwyn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaymen Posted 24 December , 2007 Share Posted 24 December , 2007 Gwyn Stunning photos, more please if you can Glyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 24 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 24 December , 2007 I'll put some more on shortly; thank you for your appreciative comments! I wasn't sure whether anyone would be interested. It's just quite a busy time at the moment! The originals do have crispness and a lot more detail than these heavily compressed versions; for example, the barbed wire in the moonlight one is clearly distinct from the background, and all the crosses have a ledge of snow on them. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 31 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Two record shots. No artistic interpretation, just as it was. Le Hohrod cemetery is very dramatic when first seen in the snow; two and a half thousand stark black crosses in the charged stillness of dusk, undisturbed except for a fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 31 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Dusk near the summit. Remains of some sort of blockhaus and trench. By this stage it was almost dark and the lights of occasional farms glowed yellow against the snow on the far side of the valley. You could feel the silence. Down in the wine area, the tourists in their hundreds were crowding to the cheerful Christmas markets in the medieval villages. The contrast couldn't have been starker. More to come. (These images are all very compressed.) Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Dixon Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Superb pictures, thanks for sharing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian turner Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Gwyn Again, many thanks! It gets better each posting... and quite a poignant contrast. Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Wow, another round of stunning pictures, thanks Gwyn. More, more pleeeeaaaase! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Phew! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 The one with the black crosses is stunning. Marina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Johnson Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 Yes, very moving, and quite a contrast to the usual CWGC stones in summer garden landscape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 5 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2008 Thank you very much. (I changed the thread title to Winter.) Climbed out of the trench and stood by it: Dusk is settling on the former battlefield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 5 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2008 The tearing wire is never far away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted 5 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 5 January , 2008 Looking out over Alsace. It's December. Down below, the villages are buzzing. It's a week before Christmas. Presents to buy, houses to adorn, festive cakes and choucroute garni to order. Marchés de Noël. Vin chaud. Mannäla, bredle. Firstly, almost the same spot in summer, taken about twelve years ago. This is scanned from a print. And now winter: The most odd sound happens in this soundless place. In the eerily pink dusk, there are dull explosions. Not hunters' guns. Not a quarry working. There's no-one, no-one, no-one around. Gwyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 7 January , 2008 Share Posted 7 January , 2008 another series of stunning pictures; thanks a lot and please keep them coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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