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Posted on 22/08/08 09:22:26 AM

Steve Caplin
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Contest 212: The war zone

As you'd expect, I took a load of photos during my recent trip to France, and we'll see a few of them cropping up here during the weeks to come.

I was particularly intrigued by this ruined house, which reminded me of the sort of ruins you see in old war films and games like Call of Duty. Of course, I photographed this scene on a bright, calm day. What would it look like in the heat of battle?

High res is here.

Posted on 22/08/08 9:05:08 PM

stefan
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

It's been a long time...and it's nice to be back:-)

Posted on 22/08/08 9:29:00 PM

Mick Malkemus
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ZeitGeist

I often wonder what places like this used to look like in the past, as far as human activity that took place there...

Posted on 23/08/08 08:30:50 AM

Nick Curtain
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Posted on 23/08/08 12:30:56 PM

tooquilos
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

For goodness sake, we are in the midst of a crisis here and you two are arguing over who has the biggest light saber.!!

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa164/tooquilos/Familyfeud.gif

Nice to see you back Stefan!!

Posted on 23/08/08 12:32:06 PM

tooquilos
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

Very nice Nick. Extremely convincing

Posted on 23/08/08 3:50:47 PM

stefan
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Nice to see you back Stefan!!

Thank you Anna..

Posted on 23/08/08 6:53:15 PM

dave.cox
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

I thought that I would try a different approach this week.

The animation requires Quicktime, and will take a couple of minutes to download.

Animation here.

Posted on 23/08/08 7:48:30 PM

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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

DON'T PANIC!

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Posted on 23/08/08 8:41:21 PM

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War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.

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Posted on 23/08/08 8:49:40 PM

Luis
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

Here is my attempt. I tried to make it like a old photo.

Posted on 23/08/08 9:35:31 PM

james
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http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s211/fungismith/brokenwall-2.gif

Gordon, I love your poppies.

Thank you Anna; Photobucket problem resolved.

Posted on 23/08/08 10:46:02 PM

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Posted on 24/08/08 02:03:14 AM

tooquilos
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

James, my Photobucket account seemed fine apart from it being slow, which is quite normal.

Dave your animation is fantastic.

Gordon, your poppy field is beautiful. Such a serene setting.

Posted on 24/08/08 02:56:14 AM

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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

Here is my attempt. The old photo approach was the first thing I thought of, too.
Nick, your's is just great.
And Gordon, I love your poppyfield.

Posted on 24/08/08 07:07:41 AM

Nick Curtain
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Re: Contest 212: The war zone

Anna and Mariong, many thanks for your kind comments.

All of the work so far is fantastic, with so many of the ideas I'd considered originally being realised so well.

Nick

Posted on 24/08/08 10:31:16 AM

GKB
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Thank you James, Marion and Anna. Poor old R2D2!

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Posted on 24/08/08 3:15:27 PM

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