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Time just stands still.....


Time just stands still.....
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Copyright: Tim De Chassaing (leboistoo) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Workshop Editor/Silver Note Writer [C: 63 W: 62 N: 38] (168)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2003-08
Categories: Daily Life
Camera: Pentax Optio 550
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Date Submitted: 2006-07-05 14:15
Viewed: 892
Points: 10
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
In the small town of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Haute-Vienne department of France, on Saturday the 10th of June 1944. An attack was carried out by soldiers of the Der Führer Regiment of the 2nd Waffen-SS Panzer Division Das Reich. On that day they killed a total of 642 men, women and children without giving any reasons for their actions and to this day there is no universally accepted explanation for their massacre. The ruins of this martyred village have been preserved as a reminder of the madness of war.

Main picture: Part of the lower town of Oradour-sur-Glane is the section of the main street to the south end. This is opposite the church where the women and children were massacred. Houses are just left to crumble. The overhead electrical wires for the tram lines were installed in 1911, they remain as part of the reminder that time has stopped here.

Inset left: This is the ruined bakery where two cremated bodies were found, one of which was a baby's skeleton discovered in one of the ovens visible at the rear of the premises.

Inset centre: The car of Doctor Desourteaux on the ‘Champ de Foire’ (Fairground). This view is one of the best known of all the images of Oradour, symbolising as it does, a frozen instant of time.

Inset right: A rusty women’s bicycle lies in the ruins of a main street house. There are many artifacts of normal people in all of the ruins, a reminder that war does not discriminate.

Understandably, there is an eerie silence encapsulating Oradour-sur-Glane.

The inset composition was to give a more balanced visual effect, showing more than one PoV around the town.
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Belle composition et jolie resultat

Hi Tim. So, youve been in Oradeur-sur-Glane as well :). It was a good idea with those smaller images. Good and sharp images. I think it was hard to get "the message" into my pictures from Oradeur. A moment of my life I prob. never forget. TFS
My picture from Oradeur.

Tim, this is a tragic and sobering composite image, and yet it is a good picture as well. War is never good, no matter what the reasons....no matter the cause....I know war, and war is hell. Four
military actions or wars have occurred in my lifetime so far, and three have affected me personally. I fought in one. I always lament the loss of innocent noncombatant persons; especially children. I have a young daughter myself, and have so many hopes for her. Anyway nice images...very poignant and clear...just one point of critique though...if you posess the means...I would like to see a bit of a frame or a simple dividing line between each of the smaller images and the main image to clean up and provide enough contrast to eleminate confusion to the eyes, and add that extra something to give your composition the tasteful professional, dignified look it deserves. Great shots, Tim. I am touched by these village scenes and its lost lambs.

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  • inaam Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1719 W: 5 N: 389] (1376)
  • [2006-08-17 9:59]

Beautifully taken shots and presentation along with an excellent commentary note.

Though contemporary world has thousands of examples of wars, its atrosities and results, even then war is on....... its a shame!

Best compliments for sharing such a useful information and nice photography.

france is very beautiful country,i like it...
i have been there two times,at the very romantic moments
and your photo is demonstrative for us,
learning about the world
TFS

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