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Fattyowls

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Chilly looking magnificence John. Not sure about the first one but the chapel at Notre Dame de Lorette followed and the Arras Memorial at Faubourg d'Amiens are otherworldly. It's a good angle at Etaples with the sea in the background if I'm not mistaken. Is the misty cemetery Lijssenthoek? Not sure about the German cemeteries, is the first Fricourt and the one with the flat panel Langemark? I recognise Vladslo from the Käthe Kollwitz sculptures and is the last one the gates at Pozieres?

 

Pete

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wouaaaa... so many great pics! 

Favourite is definitely the chappel at Lorette. 

Last time I was there I was surprised by a huge amount of fog!! 

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This one was taken at La Cambe cemetery... WWII mostly, but just making my point of previous post: 

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M.

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The Cemeteries are;

Bancourt British cemetery

Notre Dame de Lorette

Faubourg d'Amiens British cemetery

Etaples

Flatiron Copse

Saint-Laurent-Blangy German military cemetery

Menen German war cemetery

Vladso German war cemetery

Pozieres

 

Some of the Frosty Citadel Images

 

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NICE !!!! 

 

The closest I ever got to having snow on the battlefields was december 2017, at a very impromptu visit - just heard I was getting deployed and had 2 days to get all my gear from the depot in Ypres - area was more frozen than snowed in.

 

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M.

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Some Snowy Ones;

 

18th Division Trones Wood

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Track on the side of High Wood

 

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London Cemetery

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Martinpuich Cemetery

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when was that?? Can't remember having had a winter with so much snow lately... 

 

M. 

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I've been saying for a while now: next snow, I'll jump in the car and make sure I'm on the frontline before sunrise... but the snow never really came! 

 

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10 hours ago, Marilyne said:

 

 

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An alternative view >

 

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Tom

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Good stuff gang. The snow and ice scenes are scenic, but I'm going to have to wear mittens if we get any more. There is one John took of High Wood in the snow with a low sun which is beautiful but can only be viewed while clutching a steaming mug of hot chocolate.

 

Pete.

 

P.S. I loved the black and white Guillemont Road one Tom @Tom Tulloch-Marshall . It's another one where I have an interest and that has a sharpness that you don't quite get in colour. Maybe I'm mellowing towards monochrome.

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15 hours ago, Fattyowls said:

Good stuff gang. The snow and ice scenes are scenic, but I'm going to have to wear mittens if we get any more. There is one John took of High Wood in the snow with a low sun which is beautiful but can only be viewed while clutching a steaming mug of hot chocolate.


Sorry, just one more, taken from Italian front line positions at 10,000ft on the Adamello in early July. Five minutes later there was a complete white-out.

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I love the hoar frost and snow photos, magical and haunting. As several others have lamented, the lack of snow over the past few years has been very frustrating. I too have been poised on the wrong side of the Channel obsessively checking Meteo forecasts, or checking the Arras webcam, ready to jump into the car and hope that I haven't forgotten some vital piece of photographic tat.

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Delville Wood I'll wager. Nice light.

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9 hours ago, Marilyne said:

@Tom Tulloch-Marshalldon't know if I asked this already... what lens did you use??? 

 

I now use a very ordinary £400 'ish Panasonic Lumix with a Leica lens. It has about 17,527 different functions - of which I understand about 5% (I did go on one of Jessops' instruction courses but as I'm not particularly interested in how the technology works I took in little of the jargon). The subject and composition is of more interest to me.

Tom

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Breakfast was delayed to go and get this one. My grandfather was wounded in an attack just off into the fog here (Nov 1917) - several men from his battalion who were killed during the same raid are buried at the far end of this cemetery.

Tom

 

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Another winter scene (sans neige :o )

Tom

 

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Forgive me if I'm reposting.

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33 minutes ago, horrocks said:

Forgive me if I'm reposting.

 

Your not, but even if you were you'd be forgiven for that one; Delville Wood I assume. I was just admiring Tom's Thiepval Memorial too and thinking if some of my black and white stuff might be worth dusting off. Literally as they are 35mm prints in boxes which need a good vacuum. So that will be a no then.

 

Pete.

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Cocoa time then Pete

 

There is one John took of High Wood in the snow with a low sun which is beautiful but can only be viewed while clutching a steaming mug of hot chocolate.1777369819_BleakHighWood.jpg.9b1492c87dacdd3b418db5b0224ab5b9.jpg

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35 minutes ago, Frajohn said:

Cocoa time then Pete

 

That's the one John. I've got the same photo from much the same spot, the difference being that the temperature was about 30 degrees C higher. Unfortunately I've not got enough milk for the hot chocolate until we do the big lockdown shop tomorrow. I'll rub my hands together in the meantime.

 

Pete.

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