Question of the Week: What are you most likely to photograph on a battlefield?
Monument? Cannon? Building? When you visit a battlefield, what are you most likely to photograph?
Monument? Cannon? Building? When you visit a battlefield, what are you most likely to photograph?
The terrain.
The cannons; always the cannons! Many times I will take close ups of the muzzle, showing the manufacturing markings.
Terrain, terrain and markers. From the top of Blocher’s Knoll looking down, up charged the 21st Georgia. My buddy whose passing caused me to go to the Symposium in his remembrance was a gravestone guy.
Monument! But everyone loves a good cannon photo too
Terrain features such as the hornets nest
Terrain. I love the challenge of getting earthworks to show up well in photos. And I can’t resist drama/nature beauty shots like the if the sky looks pretty behind a rail fence or an expansive view from a high point.
Monuments because I am a fan of outdoor sculpture and the messages of the memorials, but also the terrain offers the opportunity to visualize on a personal level what these soldiers saw and endured.
Terrain and earthworks.
Friends and relatives walking the battlefield with me
Terrain and markers are the two primary, but there are some places that the view is just as important, such as from Little Round Top looking out over the battlefieldor the point on Lookout Mountain looking down over the guns.
Terrain and monuments are the two primary but view scape that sometimes tops it like looking from Little Round Top across the battlefield or from the point at Lookout Mountain over the guns down on the river and Chattanooga.
Probably myself and/or whoever Im with standing next to, well, something! Markers, monuments, equipment (like cannons) fortifications, etc , they’re all fair game.
My own foot!
Tactically significant terrain, that differ from descriptions in books or go unmentioned.
I’ve found that I have the most success with monuments. Sometimes I have luck with flowers against wooden fences, but my photographs of the terrain capture none of the magic.
Terrain or any surviving structures
Whenever I go to a battlefield my high school friends insist I stand next to a cannon and dramatically point while my wife takes a photo. We went to several battlefields together when we were teens and all the photos show us standing next to cannons and pointing as though we were firing the pieces. We only noticed this peculiar pose many years later so if we go to a battlefield, or a fort or anywhere else where cannons are present we have to strike the position even in our late 60s. It is funny although not historically accurate.