The Trail of Tears by chohole
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Description
An image I have wanted to attempt for a long time. The current Bryce challenge gave me the impetus to do it.
Comments (17)
Ang25
Excellently done!
beton
fantastic ! really a great work !
Flak
The finished version is great :) The snow/colouring of the image really gives the feel of the harshness of what they went through very well (if that makes any sense).
Elsina
Exellent work!!
jaydiva
Excellent!! outstanding work on the snow and storm. like Flak says, give me a real feeling of the cold and harshness.
GROINGRINDER
Love it! The snow is fantastic. Have you read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee"?
quixote
Somehow, it seems appropriate that even nature's tears would be white. Very striking imagery.
thgeisel
I agree to all,said before . And you put much attention to every detail.And the footsteps look great
Rayraz
Awesome. So much emotion in this image. And the stormy clouds, the snow and the subtle background dof give it just that little bit extra. As quixote said; Very striking image.
tjohn
Very moving.
electroglyph
Moving and emotionally charged.
zopeynn
Excellent & strong composition.Bravo!
Sharleen
excellent work.....I'm impressed (and that's hard to do)...
Doublecrash
Beautifully done. Gets my vote... but, apart from this, have you read the "Time Patrol" series by Poul Anderson? This strongly reminds me of one chapter, in which the woman-scientist from the future is analyzing the first tribes to enter the American continent traveling over the Kamchatka peninsula... __ Beautifully done again.
roobol
Very impressive, you have created a very beautiful scene.
lookoo
"I fought through the civil war and have men see shot to pieces and slaughtered by the thousands, but the Cherokee removal was the cruelest work I ever knew". A Georgia volunteer, afterwards a colonel in the Confederate service. "We learned from the inhabitants on the road where the indians passed, that they buried fourteen or fifteen at every stopping place, and they make a journey of ten miles per day only on an average" A white traveler from Maine. The death march went from Georgia all the way to Oklahoma, deliberately through Cholera-infested regions. Thanks so much for this piece, Chohole! Thanks for setting a realistic counterpoint to the prevailing tendency of reducing Native heritage just to tacky barbies with feathers devoid of any real history. You have my vote.
mboncher
Those who did this truely earned the name washichu. Powerful work, hands down.