Posted on 11/07/2014 11:45:40 AM PST by PROCON
These haunting images reveal the battlefields of World War One as they look today - one hundred years after the fighting broke out.
The powerful and atmospheric shots were taken by photographer, Michael St Maur Sheil, who spent seven years on the project.
The collection, called Fields of Battle-Lands of Peace 14-18, form an open-air exhibition featuring 60 freestanding photographs, each measuring 1.2 metres (4ft) by 1.8 metres (5ft 10in).
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Still bearing the scars of war, the beautiful landscapes which were once the scene of some of World War One's bloodiest fighting
Lots of stunning pictures of WWI landscape 100 years later.
In Flander’s fields the poppies grow...
Reminds me of the final scene of Black Adder Goes Forth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH3-Gt7mgyM
Worth clicking through to the article. Not for low bandwidth connections.
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In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
Lt. Col John McCrae, MD
(Canadian Expeditionary Force)
Wonderful photographs.
I have seen the Verdun battlefield, twice. To see it is never to forget it holes upon holes.
What is incredible, even to modern eyes, is the sheer tonnage of munitions poured into small expanses of territory. It's a century later and the craters are still there. Sobering.
WWI should have awaken us to the horrors of modern warfare.
Beautiful poem! Thanks for sharing.
That made me cry when I first saw it. Never thought I would cry about the Black Adder. Darling’s talk about what he hoped to do after the war was touching.
The ending to Gallipoli is one that tears me to pieces.
Rowan Atkinson originally thought that when they shot the final scene, it was garbage....little did he know what they would do in post-production, it became the most powerful ending of a series ever, and in the least likely of shows.
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