Graves

youre a ruskie?

stepp must be a gothic

cool pics anyway

Pictures are pretty. But i think the graves get something glorious in your pictures (because they're pretty and are in nice colors and all), so they don't portrait the graves well, which they should do.

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Pictures are pretty. But i think the graves get something glorious in your pictures (because they're pretty and are in nice colors and all), so they don't portrait the graves well, which they should do.

Well, they are war heroes in their country after all, so maybe it isn't that bad.

commies in Germany?

I love the last shot.

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Well, they are war heroes in their country after all, so maybe it isn't that bad.

I think it is. A really good photo is more than just a pretty picture. For graves, i'd go for some more humble photos really. Even for war heroes. Death is never something glorious, not even for war heroes. Cemetaries are there for grief, to remember those people.

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Well, they are war heroes in their country after all, so maybe it isn't that bad.

I think it is. A really good photo is more than just a pretty picture. For graves, i'd go for some more humble photos really. Even for war heroes. Death is never something glorious, not even for war heroes. Cemetaries are there for grief, to remember those people.

That's like partially true. Are we to feel grief for the thousands we don't even know who they are? Visiting a random grave site carries with it a different emotion, it's like a odd sense of discovery.

I like this photos.

Oh i don't say that i am sorry for those people as individuals, but graveyards are not happy places to me, at least. And Steppenwolf, i think that because of some bright colors and because you tried to make pretty pictures, they get something glorious almost. As if those graves only matter because of what they look like, you know?

I should take pics of the graveyards in savannah, They are huge and filled with people from both the civil and revolutionary war.

i like these, they're pretty well composed. did you try them in grayscale?

Well the last pic is the best.

btw many Ivan names on the gravestone

Good point, hereby accepted.

In every american movie the american graves are portrayed as grand monuments filled with heroes. These pictures opened my beautiful eyes and made me realise the russians have heroes too, much more then any other people which has fought wars.

And Daano, these are wargraves. Im sure when u die fighting against the mocro Jihadists in Holland, u would like ur depressing torn down grave to be visited by the grandchildren u werent able to make and have them take home ominous pictures to show their friends and say: Hey, this is the rubble of my grandfathers grave, i added extra filters over it to make it more forsaken, out of respect for his sacrifice to my freedom.

But me, and probably the rest of the free world, would like my grave to be a grand monument of courage visited by millions of pilgrims in joy.

Yep just ridicule my point, you're doing a great job. Either you just do not understand what i'm saying or you're not willing to try.

Why should these russian warmonuments be humble?

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Why should these russian warmonuments be humble?

In didn't say those should be, i said the photos should. The fact that Steppenwolf saw these graves as an opportunity to get pretty photos (he succeeded well) is what i mean. I think good photos should be more than just a pretty picture, they should tell a story, be, well, interesting. I don't consider dying for your country to be something glorious, never. Photos should tell that.

Steppenwolf: I know, shots are well taken and all