City - Gettysburg State - PENNSYLVANIA Country - United States
About
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
-Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
From Gettysburg National Cemetery. Repost of earlier image with improved post processing and crop.
Angelo, There were actually two of the blue wreaths. One I cropped out on the right. The remaining one I tried to desaturate enough that it wouldn't stick out too much but also wouldn't be obviously altered. Maybe I should have just tried to clone it out instead. Oh well, thanks for the critique and input. Eric
Very poignant picture and an excellent speech in the "about".
Picture is nicely made, though photographically speaking I wish there was more of a pattern to the flags, and that blue shape in the middle hadn't been there.
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{K:1341} 7/2/2005
