Remembrance Day 2009
In the photos here, included is a shot of double Memorial Cross recipients -- Kitty Elliot who lost her husband, brother and cousin in WWII, and Rebeka Bulger who lost her husband to the violence in Afghanistan in July. Insanity 65 years ago, insanity four months ago. Bulger's brothers looked so much alike and surely like their fallen sibling and I looked into the face of the 87 year old woman and tried to see the face of her brother so long gone.
Included too, a shot of an old vet fallen from his chair, later quietly carried from the hall he appeared okay, perhaps simply exhausted from a march on legs too distant from their last formal drill.
I wound up in the press pool taking photographs this morning so I felt a bit "distant" from the ceremony, somehow -- nothing more cynical than a reporter, except perhaps the camera guys.
The image of the young boy saluting so earnestly was the trigger for my tears today, however. Children. In uniforms. But as a friend said looking at the enlisted men and women today, they are all children, really....
Lest we Forget
posted by Heipel at
7:29 PM
3 Comments:
The selective focus, the comp, the crops, the emotion and the look captured between the young and the old women...well done Lad. Always see your best every November, these are the best yet.
Thanks.
The interior lighting helped with DOF -- at reasonable ISOs I was pretty much forced to shoot at 2.8, although the D3 did allow me to get many of these shots at ISO 1600 or better, so I could open up a bit more.
Other big advantage was I was on the field with the ceremony so right in the middle of everything with the news gang. As an old radio guy I found myself purposely getting my shoulder in the tv camera shots :)
hey man. thanks for these. I agree with your brother (I assume you're not actually schizophrenic and complimenting yourself) these are lovely.
you're a great photographer, and writer, you should do more of that
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