Armistice
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The title comes from the poem by Lieut-Col. John McCrae. / Click to view my redbubble work by category: Altered Images / Animals, Birds and Insects / Flowers and Plants / Fractal Images / HDR Images / Satin Series
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More of the wonderful poppies up the road. While the French translation is Field flowers, the word Champs is rather appropriate for Remembrance Day. Those Soliders were our champions! The “Amazing Orton Effect” has been applied and the green desaturated a little.
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As I post this photo, the QE2, the most famous ship in the world, will be departing my home city and her home port for the last time, to become a floating hotel in Dubai. This is purely a documentary shot, captured before 9am this morning as the Queen waits for her big day. The day started off badly when strong winds caused the ship to run aground on a sandbank at the entrance to Southampton Water, but no damage was done and a fleet of little tugs pulled her into deeper water so she could sail home for the last time. Southampton is home to the greatest ocean liners in the world, but this old lady who is over 40 years old and has sailed 5.9 million miles will be sorely missed. Note the red poppy in the midground – the QE2 became a troop ship in the Falklands War (I was even there to see her leave) and Armistice Day is a perfect choice for her farewell.
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With the Anniversary of D Day upon us, i’m reposting an image of a former soldier, paying tribute to those who paid the ultimate price for our ability to live our lives the way we do. Thank you. Llandudno Cenotaph, North Wales.
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Remembrance Day – also known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day (the event it commemorates) or Veterans Day – is a day to commemorate the sacrifices of members of the armed forces and of civilians in times of war, specifically since the First World War. It is observed on 11 November to recall the end of World War I on that date in 1918. The day was specifically dedicated by King George V, on 7 November 1919, to the observance of members of the armed forces who were killed during war, this was possibly done upon the suggestion of Edward George Honey to Wellesley Tudor Pole, who established two ceremonial periods of remembrance based on events in 1917 / info taken from Wikipedia This is dedicated to my grandfather Henry E Cottrell a civilian killed during WWII and to all the other casualties of war.
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In the 11th hour, on the 11th month and 11th day each year the US celebrates, honors and remembers it’s Veteran’s of War… / Last year in an attempt at balancing the power to creatively express my peaceful self, as a previous anti-war activist who had never truly delved into the depths of ‘casualties of war’, learning even more that they went beyond the physical or deceased sense of the term. Creating a series called PEACE CANDLES that began with the importance of our votes, I was soon inspired by the real reasoning behind some of our holidays. This series brought on an amazing series of collaborations, but the Veteran’s Remembrance (III) one had to be the most profound of these experiences, as it inspired this poetry and a whole new way of looking at ‘Warriors’... Singing for Heroes Unsung heroes of time and eternity gone by, / upon eagle’s wings please hear harmony’s cry; I know of the courage in your brave, purple heart’s, / the valor that runs deep through all body parts; No medals or ribbons could suffice true zeal / of facing the devil, declaring “NO DEAL!” Senses denatured to the ills of humankind, / focusing on ‘cause’ without losing one’s mind; War, we were taught, is freedoms price tag, / for waving or planting the colors of our flag; Laying claim to faith and dignity to rites / for victim nations, to empower from plights; A noble choice to risk one’s life and limb, / while ignorance decides whether to sink or swim; My promise to you from this moment on, / your memories heard in ephiphenomenon; With love and honor, respectfully I’ll close - / each dawn sound the bugle, each eve with a rose. TK Rosevear 11/11/07 Sound the Bugle by Bryan Adams / There were Roses written by Tommy Sands are the two pieces of music that inspired the last line of this poem, and each day I hear the first song, while each evening I hear the latter. In remembrance of all Veteran’s of all wars and to all those still walking with the memories and all who have been lost… Peace Candles III includes interviews with soldier’s requests on how they wish to be remembered… /
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Two days of the year Lezay comes out to Thank and Remember family members and friends who lost their lives during the Great War – today the 11th November 2008 the orchestra marched and Les Anciens carried their flags and Flowers and the school children joined the parade with flowers and words of commemoration to say… May 8th is another day in the Calander…....Liberation Day… This is the soldier that stands in the middle of Lezay to commemorate the war to end all wars! Living here in France brings it just that little bit closer to home – how it must have been and how the countryfolk lived…..last night there was a documentary about Albert Kahn and his colour photos of the great war – seeing them made us realise just how awful life would have been for the people here in the middle of it all…. I would like to share this with you – My daughter Chloé came home from Lycée today and said that they had to write a prose as if they are talking to the object or person this is her translation into English from French she is worried it will not make sense so I have also posted in a Journal in both languages I think it fits this photo and is our first Collaboration of which I hope we have more :) Untitled / Oh War, you are the enemy of mothers, / you take our brothers, our sons and our loved ones, / you destroy the countryside, which echoes / with the cries of soldiers,and nobody understands / what you are doing here, / we have had enough already, / don’t you think so? / We lose our lives,our spirits,our reason for living / because who wants to live after seeing / the horror in the fields / the blood which runs / like a river who never stops, / brothers massacred, who will never again wake up. / You bring death upon us, with your malicious spirit, / to see a woman dissolve in tears, / that pleases your vicious mind / who is overjoyed to see / our men trembling, who know that soon / they will die. by Chloe May Smith 12 November 2008 / Chloe’s Work featured in Statues and Such Nov 08 / featured in Images with Words Jan 09 taken on canon 400d using sigma lens on full zoom at 300mm on P program
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The subdued light is a beacon for humanity lost in a world wide orgy of unadulterated madness. / / They met each other and their fate in muddy trenches, spiritually degraded and morally confused. Senseless murder did not discriminate, it made them all victims of a crime whose magnitude numbs your logic, turns your love into a still nature of sort. Just a thought of a civilization buried below my feet fills my head with panic. The souls who live in other people’s hearts live forever. They are still around, one more reason to remember to care. This candle is for them, and only for them. The ones who raped their ideals have found their own fires already.
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ACRYLIC ART CALENDARS CARDS POETRY PHOTOGRAPHY – ANIMALS PHOTOGRAPHY -CANDID SHOTS PHOTOGRAPHY – CATS AND DOGS PHOTOGRAPHY – CONTEMPORARY WORK PHOTOGRAPHY – FLOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY – INSECTS PHOTOGRAPHY – TRADITIONALLY TURKISH PHOTOGRAPHY – TREE AND TREE PARTS T-SHİRTS 1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance is a work of art to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Armistice, running in the days leading up to 11th November 1918. The photograph and message aims to focus on the act of remembrance and brings the image of World War One vividly alive in the present. / A unique opportunity to reflect on lives lost during war. GREETING CARDS ARTWORK ADAPTATIONS – BLANK / ARTWORK ADAPTATIONS – WITH MESSAGE / EVENTS / BIRTH / BIRTHDAY / HEARTS, LOVE, VALENTINE, INNUENDO AND TEASE / HUMOUROUS CARDS FOR ALL OCASSIONS / / , / SEASONAL AND HOLIDAYS / BURNS / CHRISTMAS / EASTER / GET WELL / MOTHER’S DAY / REMEMBRANCE / THINKING OF YOU / Dulce Et Decorum Est BENT double, like old beggars under sacks / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, / Till on the haunting flares we turned out backs / And towards our distant rest began to trudge. / Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots / But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; / Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots / Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—-An ecstasy of fumbling, / Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time; / But someone still was yelling out and stumbling / And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime… / Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, / As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin; / If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, / Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud / Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,- / my friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory, / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori. Wilfred Owen
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Woodville Town Hall, Adelaide. The 11th November is known as Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day. It is, of course, the anniversary of the end of World War I, and it is a day for remembering those who died in the wars. In November 1997, then Australian Governor-General Sir William Deane formally proclaimed November 11 Remembrance Day and urged all Australians to observe one minute’s silence at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month each year to remember those who died or suffered for Australia’s cause in all wars and armed conflicts. While Remembrance Day is thus observed in Australia, the better-known “remembrance” day in Australia (and New Zealand) is actually Anzac Day on April 25 each year.
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11th November is Remebrance Day (Australia, Canada, UK), Veterans Day (US), Poppy Day (Malta and South Africa) and Armistice Day (France, New Zealand). On this day remember those of past and present generations who laid down their lives in the cause of freedom and liberty. Forget them not. In Flanders fields the poppies blow / Between the crosses, row on row, / That mark our place; and in the sky / The larks, still bravely singing, fly / Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie / In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: / To you from failing hands we throw / The torch; be yours to hold it high. / If ye break faith with us who die / We shall not sleep, / though poppies grow / In Flanders fields. / - Lt. Colonel John McRae, Canadian Army (1915)
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This life boat carried 28 soldiers onto Gallipoli beach on 25 April 1915. The story of Life Boat No.6 is described in this video from the Australian War Memorial The story of the ANZACS at Gallipoli can be found here For mine, on standing and looking at this boat, I started to realise how treacherous the landing must have been. I have to say that to stand next to and see an actual boat that carried 28 ANZACS ashore that day was almost religious in it’s significance and was, if nothing else, moving.
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peace sign with earth shapes
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We WILL remember Them. Taken on the 11th morning of the 11th day of the eleventh month on the 90th anniversary of the armistice. This is underneath Ballantrae War Memorial.
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Australian War Memorial
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A large wooden hand giving the peace sign I had carved in Korea many years ago, now turned into flat image with a bit of retro color spectrum background.
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SHOW THE WORLD YOU WANT TO “WAGE PEACE” NOT WAR
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