ETERNITY / ETERNIDAD, a photo from Panama, East

Photographer's Note

EL CEMENTERIO AMERICANO DE COROZAL EN LA ANTIGUA ZONA DEL CANAL CERCANO A LA CIUDAD DE PANAMA, ES EL LUGAR DONDE MAS DE 5000 MILITARES AMERICANOS Y SUS FAMILIARES ESTAN ENTERRADOS DESDE LA EPOCA DE LA CONSTRUCCION DEL CANAL. MILES DE VETERANOS DE TODAS LAS GUERRAS YACEN EN ESTE HERMOSO LUGAR PARA LA ETERNIDAD...

THE COROZAL AMERICAN CEMETERY IN THE FORMER CANAL ZONE NEAR PANAMA CITY, IS THE PLACE WHERE MORE THAN 5000 AMERICAN MILITARY AND OTHER PEOPLE ARE INTERRED SINCE THE TIMES OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PANAMA CANAL. THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN VETERANS AND HEROES OF EVERY WAR REMAIN IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE FOR ETERNITY.

"THIS MEMORIAL HAS BEEN ERECTED BY THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
IN HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO ALL INTERRED HERE
WHO SERVED IN ITS ARMED FORCES OR
CONTRIBUTED TO THE CONSTRUCTION,
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF
THE PANAMA CANAL"

http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/cz.php

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Critiques | Translate

BilboCA (734) 2009-07-12 21:10

Hi, Juan,

Well, it is amazing to me that almost 3000 times this photo has been viewed, and yet not one critique!

Okay, here is mine. I think you have made an interesting composition, technically well executed, and with a good choice to use black and white as the medium. On first look, I thought that maybe you had too much of the frame devoted to sky. And I even tried making a workshop version with the sky cropped down. But the original was better than the cropped version, so I did not even post the workshop. The large amount of sky in the photo somehow increases the seriousness of the picture to match the seriousness of the subject.

I think that maybe one small detail could be improved. The white stripe near the bottom in the first walkway joint is visually distracting. A minor crop to remove this from the image would help.

But that is all.

The trees, the walkway, the cloudy sky, the shadows, and especially the white tombstones make this a strongly expressive photo.

Congratulations!
- William

davidrlinton2 (0) 2011-08-06 23:40

The straight path, the narrow road, not turning to the left or the right, but going straight ahead. On top of the hill and on either side, the tree of life, Eternal Life.
Oh, and nice photo bro!