The Names of the Valiant Photo

Photographer’s Note

The largest cemetery in the Pacific of Americans killed during World War II is located in the American War Memorial at Fort Bonifacio Philippines.The walls (seen here) inscribes the names of the 36,282 soldiers that we killed in the Pacific The site used to be the U.S. Army Fort William McKinley. It is located about six miles of Manila. Its 152 acres contains 17,000 graves. .

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adam_k (596) 2006-07-31 14:08

It could have been quite an interesting and good picture but now it's just half of its potential...
I'm explaining why: despite the informative note this is not enough to defend the image: image needs to speak itself - at least try to speak itself... and this one does not speak: it's just a background for its potential...

You would need to add some foreground to this background: a man contemplating the names for example, someone deep in thoughts watching the numbers of the dead... I don't know - something like that...

There is a lot of space in the foreground - you have a good background and the rest is to wait until something interesting happens here...

- sorry for writing in such a way about the picture showing some tragic elements of world history, but I can justify myself as trying to help the photographer to notice the picture's potential (which is not used here)...

rahul__rahul__ (2250) 2006-08-19 11:19

Hi Luis
nice picture, I like the colors in this, perhaps a human element would have added interest...but it is still very nice, your POV makes it like a path leading us...interesting note as well..
Good job!
TFS
Rahul