Forum: Photography


Subject: Photography Forum Challenge - October 2010 - "Bridges"

Meisiekind opened this issue on Oct 08, 2010 · 138 posts


TomDart posted Tue, 19 October 2010 at 7:19 PM

A recent image is wanted...so far my only bridge comes from a pc now hiding in some covered place in this home, somewhere downstairs with the camel crickets.  I used an old Minolta DImage F100, bought for eBay stuff.  The picture was aged a bit and ghostly soldiers placed in the woods, near where they were in the fighting at the bridge in 1862.   This was likely one of my earliest attempts to manipulate a photo.

The bridge is over Antietam Creek, near Sharpsburg, Maryland. This area was made infamous by a battle in the Civil War in America known in the north as Antietam(named after the creek as was custom) or after the nearest town, Sharpsburg in the south(as was custom).

I always feel a tear at my heart and a tear in my eyes when considering these terrible battles.  This one September 17, 1862 produced the bloodiest day in American combat history with over 23,000 casualties.   All were sons of what was the same country prior to the war.

I will put up a bridge from a new photo soon as I get one.