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German War Cemetry , Glencree, Ireland
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Glencree German war cemetery (German: Deutsche Kriegsgraberstätte) was dedicated on 9 July 1961. There are 134 graves. Most are Luftwaffe (air force) or Kriegsmarine (navy) personnel. 53 are identified, 28 are unknown. Six deaths date from World War I, they were prisoners of war held by the British. Forty six[citation needed] German civilian detainees were being shipped from England to Canada for internment when their ship, Arandora Star was torpedoed by a German U-boat, U-47, off Tory Island in July 1940. Dr Hermann Görtz, a German spy is also here. He committed suicide as he feared he would be handed over to the allies at the end of the war. It is administered by the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge [2])
2 photo’s taken yesterday
Hope you find this interesting. CC welcome
I visited there once, it’s not easy to find. You could drive by and not know it was there.
Yes very interesting, thanks for putting them up and supplying info.
As photos #1 works best for me, (because there are two competing points of interest in #1)
but in #1 perhaps a crop about 1cm down as the cut of the trees might be less distracting.Martin
Thanks Martin for suggestion re crop on #1, the tree line does indeed need cropping.
Glad you found the history interesting.Eddie
Yes, I like #1 too – another point of view would be to have taken it from lower down to emphasis the foreground crosses and the expense of the paving.
its a nice place, been there a few times, only ever got one image i was happy with:
https://www.photographyireland.net/viewtopic.php?p=199747&highlight=fguihen#199747
You have some nice images, the only thing i would say, and its only my amateur opinion:
Image 1 – If you took it from a lower vantage point you would have gotten a nicer perspective and cut out a bit more of the blown out sky.
Image 2 – Id try to use the paving to create some leading lines, draw your eye into the image. I appreciate this may not have been possible, and again, I have visited this place a few times and only have 1 image i think is anywhere near half decent so im not sure how much my opinion counts for.
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