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This is week 7 of our Competition
and you have three days to submit a picture, after which the Top Ten Pictures will be selected by our panel of admins and posted up in a poll on Saturday morning (PST). The poll will run for 24hours (as requested by the public!) and the winner will be announced on Sunday morning!
~ Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be
only ONE picture please and it should be YOURS
not off the internet, not a friends picture but your very own
No slide shows please, and no automatic music on the page
Then come back and post a comment on this page
so that everyone can link to your blog and see your pic.
By all means mention your camera and lens used, and if the picture has been altered or enhanced in anyway!
Out of the box thinking is encouraged!!
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..ooOoo..
~*~Freedom~*~
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What a fitting theme for this holiday weekend..... and Friday being the Fourth of July.
My picture was taken just before Memorial Day in 2006. I just happened to be in the park that day and was shooting some pictures of our beautiful bandstand... which I hope to be able to use in a future photographical endeavor.
Our park has a history. It is the place of the very first settlement of our little town .. Gallipolis ,Ohio. Our town was founded by 500 Frenchman who were running literally for their lives. It was during the period of the French Revolution and well, the were mostly all aristocrats... fleeing the guillotine.
Back to the park... there are several monuments of structures in the park... this one is the statue of a an American WWI soldier... erected in memory of the first WWI soldier from Gallipolis to be killed... His name is John Oliver... and he was killed on a shore in France.. It is simiply called the Doughboy
It was a beautiful sunny day... I stood inside the wall to take this picture. A wall has been put aournd the . It is a bit like the Vietnam Wall in DC. There are names of almost all of the soldiers that have fought in the many Wars that the US has fought in. The beautiful black marble and granite walls are etched with the many soldiers that have fought for our freedoms. Below the wall are bricks bought by families as a memorial or as an honor brick.
I wasn't thinking very hard that day.... no really purpose just shooting... I found some names and I thought why not take a picture of those names that I knew..
This is the result
May we never forget the sacrifice these men gave... the freedom of living to make our country what it is today....
Have a Happy Fourth of July Celebration.... and if you see a soldier... tell him THANKS
shot with my Kodak C743 Zoom digital
