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Beautiful Day at the Golf Course
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Ferncroft on a Beautiful day for golfing
Pontoon boat in the morning
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Wild Grass
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Sunset over the Holy City
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Sunset over The Battery and a row of Palmetto Trees, Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is known as the "Holy City" because it has so many churches and because it was amongst the most religiously tolerant colonial American cities.
This photo took some work to get -- but I was trying for something like the South Carolina state flag with the palmetto tree and the crescent moon.
Where Cushing Met His Fate.
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Gun of Cushing's Battery at the Angle on Cemetery Ridge at sunset. A graduate of the West Point class of 1861, Alonzo Cushing commanded Battery A of the 4th U.S. Artillery at Gettysburg. Cushing was shot multiple times while defending the Angle against Pickett's Charge on July 3, 1863. Despite the painful wounds, he stuck to his guns. As he turned to shout an order, he was killed by a bullet which passed through his open mouth. He was but 22 years old. Cushing is buried at West Point. The sergeant who took over for him was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism and gallantry.
This photograph (like almost all of my Gettysburg pictures) is straight off the camera -- my opinion is Mother Nature needs no enhancement. Thank you for all the comments and invites for my picture. :)
as if the sky were celebrating
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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain wrote of a return visit of Gettysburg that it seemed as if it were "a radiant fellowship of the fallen."
I've been to Gettysburg many times, and I can say for certain that there are these quiet moments on the battlefield, away from the noise of tourists and crowds, where you can feel that radiant fellowship, where the battlefield comes alive and you can feel the history hanging thickly in the air. This photograph captures that feeling, I think.
This is a re-edit of a photograph taken in May 2009 about thirty minutes prior to sunset on Oak Hill, the first day battlefield north of Gettysburg.
Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826.
Splendiferous Sunset behind a Living Landmark.
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Located on the western side of Hancock Avenue near the monument to General John Gibbon and the bronze cannons of Weir's Battery stands the "Gibbon Tree." This may well be the only remaining witness tree along the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg. According to legend, Brigadier-General John Gibbon was wounded near this tree during Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863.
This walnut tree has suffered several lightning strikes and several of the limbs are dying, and so every time I come to the field, I wonder if it will still be standing. But it endures as it has for over 145 years -- a silent witness to one of the most momentous scenes in American history. It was a privilege to enjoy one of the best sunsets I've seen at Gettysburg and to photograph the display of beautiful colors behind this living, fragile landmark.
The Last Full Measure.
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Sunset over the monument to the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 2009. 44 men were killed from this regiment at the battle of Gettysburg.
the last best hope of earth
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"The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln
On July 3, 1863, Confederate troops from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia launched an assault against this location. After crossing almost a mile of mostly open ground, the remaining survivors came across the stonewall here, known as the Angle, where they were repulsed by the Union Army of the Potomac. The area became known as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy -- Lee's army was compelled to retreat and began on the road that ultimately led to Appomattox.
When you view the field from the spot where Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble's men charged, the landmark you can find to mark the location of the Angle is the "umbrella tree." Although not a witness tree, the so-called Umbrella Tree has a unique shape and stands on one of the most hallowed spots in American history.
This shot is almost straight
Perfect Female Cardinal?
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Female Northern Cardinal, Rocky River Reservation, Cleveland Metroparks. My candidate for the perfect female so far. :)
A Little Sun
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(195/365)
After a long day playing hard at daycare, it's good to lay in the sun all half-sleepy and just enjoy the settling of dinner in the tummy. Yes, it's good to be the Pug of the House.
Yellow flower after rain
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Yellow flower after rain, in dim light
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Lime Fusion (cropped)
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Sort of a Citrus Eclipse...
Fusion Powered Orange
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King's Crown
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A light walk a long a wintery road in a canyon on the other side of the Salt Lake Valley that I'm not use to strolling.
sunset Masai Mara
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those beautiful acacia trees...
Sun skull
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National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Statue from the pyramid of the Sun
Teotihuacan civilization
sunset at Traveller's Inn
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Seaside Travellers Inn (Kinarut) view from the beach. View of the South China sea and the islands off the coast of Sabah (Borneo).
The proprietors are the parents of my friend Cynthia , executive director of LEAP, an NGO doing conservation work (see www.leapspiral.org)... and THANKS for all of the nice comments and favoriting.
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1826.
at the sight of a new birth of freedom
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Cannon of Alzono Cushing's Battery A, 4th U.S. Artillery, at the Angle, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The spot where the Union Army of the Potomac stopped Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in "Pickett's Charge."
Just slightly tuned in Photoshop. This was one of those sunsets that really needed no enhancement ........
Thank you for all your comments and friendship. :) I am a little behind on commenting, but I will try to catch up this weekend. :)
An ending and a beginning.
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"Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned. " - Bruce Catton
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Sunset at the Angle from behind the "Umbrella Tree" on Cemetery Ridge as viewed from the position of the 106th Pennsylvania Regiment, mid-November, 2009. Photograph almost straight out of the camera (just had to clean up some dust bunnies).
the last best hope of earth
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"The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." - Abraham Lincoln
On July 3, 1863, Confederate troops from Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia launched an assault against this location. After crossing almost a mile of mostly open ground, the remaining survivors came across the stonewall here, known as the Angle, where they were repulsed by the Union Army of the Potomac. The area became known as the High Water Mark of the Confederacy -- Lee's army was compelled to retreat and began on the road that ultimately led to Appomattox.
When you view the field from the spot where Pickett, Pettigrew, and Trimble's men charged, the landmark you can find to mark the location of the Angle is the "umbrella tree." Although not a witness tree, the so-called Umbrella Tree has a unique shape and stands on one of the most hallowed spots in American history.
This shot is almost straight
Sunset over the Holy City
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Sunset over The Battery and a row of Palmetto Trees, Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is known as the "Holy City" because it has so many churches and because it was amongst the most religiously tolerant colonial American cities.
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