ipernity: Belgium by Phil Sutters

Gormley's - Another Place - de Panne, Belgium - no…

07 Aug 2013

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Beware! I have just bought a cheap slide and negative scanner. These are four examples of its work - there will be more! The South Bank version is at www.ipernity.com/doc/364457/26315091 I haven't ventured up to Morecambe Bay to see them there.

Market stall - toys - Steenhouwersdijk, Bruges

14 Oct 2008

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Market stall - wooden crafts - Steenhouwersdijk, B…

14 Oct 2008

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Sylvie and friends Bruges 2005

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Canadian Hill 62 WW1 Memorial - Belgium - August…

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WW1 trench - Sanctuary Wood - Belgium - August 2…

27 Feb 2014

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Langemark Military Cemetery - August 2003 - graves

27 Feb 2014

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Langemark Military Cemetery August 2003 - statues

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These figures stand at the back of the wooded cemetery. They are very simple shapes, bare-headed and holding their helmets. Beyond them is one of the many fields of maize, common in the Belgium countryside. The bright sunshine was coming from behind them as they faced into the wooded cemetery, so the resulting photos are not so good. This group of photos was scanned from negatives, with a budget scanner.

The view from Sanctuary Wood in August 2003

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In World War 1 this landscape was soon turned into a sea of mud, with the trees reduced to shattered stumps. The strange thing to me was that my mind went back to an earlier conflict on Belgium soil - the Battle of Waterloo. The neat ranks of the ripening maize reminded me of the columns of French infantry toiling up another hill, around La Haye Sainte farm, against the fire of the British artillery.