Remembrance

[AlexR!]

Contemplation at the Guard's Memorial, London


Guard's Memorial by AlexR!, on Flickr

[Trev B]

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[tigerburnie]

Nice mood caught

[John Liddle]

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

Indeed we shall.

[Lavenderhill]

Poignant capture.
Rose

[antoeknee]

Very poignant indeed. We need to remember and be thankful for the sacrifice.

[Guest]

Excellent shot Alex,you captured it well.That memorial has significance for me,my late Dad,Grandad and Great-Grandad all served in the Coldstream Guards.

My Grandad was one of the many who never came home from France in September 1914,having been on the reserve and then joining the then newly formed 3rd battalion in August of that year.His name is on three war memorials in Leicestershire,plus one CWGC memorial in France.He has no known resting place.

[AlexR!]

Thanks all, for sharing your thoughts and comments. I will admit, as someone who generally doesn't like people in my photos (much to my wife's frustration), just as I put the camera to my eye the chap walked into frame and I was was muttering "don't stop, don't stop, don't stop... oh darn". But I took a couple anyway and waited for him to go before getting the shots I wanted. But once on the computer I threw all of those away as just standard record shots; his positioning and clothing are perfect and he makes it. But having seen it on here I now wonder if I should have cropped the edges to make it portrait which would focus even more on the important bits.

[bobowen]

But having seen it on here I now wonder if I should have cropped the edges to make it portrait which would focus even more on the important bits.

I think cropping as suggested would result in 2 excellent shots. Uncropped it shows the magnificent memorial and a cropped portrait would bring the chap and the soldier statues closer in contemplation.

Echoing other comments - a time of reflection for those who fought and especially for those who did not return.

[Bill53]

Well taken.

[Daisy M]

The proudest day of my 29 years in the fire service was being on parade at the Cenotaph representing the South West in my final year of service.

[lunarbo]

No don’t crop this, Alex, the shot tells the story eloquently.
if you still want to fiddle just remove the white stand at extreme left

[Guest]

It seems that the white stand that Bo refers to is asking people not to climb on the memorial(from what I can see when enlarging the image in Flickr)

When I last visited the memorial in the 1990s,I had to ask some foreign tourist youths to get off it,pointing out that it's a memorial to those who lost their lives in WW1 and since.They apologised for doing so.

Incidentally,did you know that each figure was modelled on actual Guardsmen?

[Trev B]

The proudest day of my 29 years in the fire service was being on parade at the Cenotaph representing the South West in my final year of service.

What year was that David, I was there in 1984

[Daisy M]

What year was that David, I was there in 1984

Bit later than you Trev, 95.