The Civil War - The battle #15 by goodoleboy
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Enough of this long distance exchange of gunfire!
The Rebs march aggressively toward the Bluecoats.
Captured 7/31/10, at the American Civil War Reenactment, held at the vast and beautiful El Dorado Park in beautiful Long Beach, California.
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Auf wiedersehen, thankx for the peek, and for any and all complimentary comments and favs.
Comments (13)
Rainastorm
Very good close up's and action in these Harry.
morningglory
Yes, love the close-up action. Ultra-close in the 2nd shot. Awesome!
MrsRatbag
Another great addition, Harry!
jocko500
these shots is very good ones
Digitaleagle
these captures are always so interesting very nice work!
babuci
Yepp...2nd shot is the winner. Great collage of action.
danapommet
That is really a real long rifle in #2. Wonderful collection of photos for this collage. Dana
mbz2662
Nice work Harry :)
lior
Superb captures!
myrrhluz
It's nice following the same group of five men. I like the guy yelling in the first one and the one in the back whose body language looks like he just wants to go home. The second shot is great for detail of their uniforms and the great capture of their rifles. I like the smoke coming out in a triangular shape from the rifle of the young soldier in the group behind them. Great captures!
bmac62
Love the details in these shots Harry. Today's detail for me is the horseshoe like medal piece on the boot heal of the young Johnnie Reb nearest the camera in pictures 2 and 3. This would certainly make boot heals last a lot longer as they marched and marched and marched.
tennesseecowgirl
Terrific series... wonder who wins?? :)
anahata.c
it's great to read the comments of those who have been in the service (bill & lucinda), they see things I'd never have noticed. The horseshoe shape on the heal---that's observation! And the triangular shape of the smoke in shot number two---wonderful comments. Another fine addition to this complex & ever changing series. I too like the variation in attitude in some of the shots (between soldiers who are totally immersed and those who are weary and a few even jaded & bored). There's real counterpoint in #1 between the obvious leader-ly person in the front row shouting, and the guy in back looking like he's seen so many battles and is so very tired. The second shot has real tension in it, a real kneeling battle shot. (I just can't get over that battle in those days really involved kneeling in position before shooting, at least with some weapons. It seems so complicated & formal. You caught the postures quite well, Harry.) You have all kinds of arrays as one moves through these, including slain bodies, and different physical postures, attitudes, etc. and the last one with the amazing mix of uniform & color, something I'm sure was common enough in the Civil War. I just had dinner last week with a man from WWII who was shot down in Germany on one of his last missions, and was brought face-to-face with Himmler & escaped. It was a harrowing story and astonishing for the detail he remembered and the immediacy with which he conveyed it. So I've kind of been immersed in stories of battle (there were other veterans there who told a little of their experiences, and I know you were in the center of that war too.) Photographically, you move to a long view in the end, which takes us "out" of the montage very naturally. FIne work, and though I haven't been able to comment on all of your civil war series, you must know that I honor you for the tenacity you put into them (I've seen everyone), the time in making your painstaking montages & choosing just the right sequences for each, and for the variety you include, as well as for the individual images themselves. If I only comment on a few, in my occasional returns to the galleries, please know that I appreciate every one. FIne and painstaking work. And ninja wise, I respect your agility & ability to move in & out of these processions. I'm just learning that art now...