# Introduction
**I finally managed to get out to a nearby War Memorial despite intermittent rain and it being quite a miserable day.  The light was good for certain types of shots but a bit too grey and grim for some of the others.**

Personally shots 1 and 3 are my favourites as they seem to have been ideal for the light and the simple composition works well.  

I've posted some of the others as I know different people have different tastes to me.

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Assuming the weather allows it I will try to photograph some other war memorials before Remembrance Sunday. 
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## Processing
These were processed in Lightroom and Nik Analog Efex Pro 2 (get it free [here](https://www.google.com/nikcollection/)).
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# The Photos
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## The Memorial Itself
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#### 01
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d151ad9.jpg
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#### 02
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d77f5f7.jpg
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#### 03
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d6073fb.jpg
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#### 04
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d745d4f.jpg
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#### 05
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d582f23.jpg
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#### 06
<center>https://i.imgsafe.org/244d72f855.jpg</center>
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#### 07
https://i.imgsafe.org/244cfdee51.jpg
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#### 08
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d556472.jpg

#### This is an extract called the ["Ode of Remembrance"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_of_Remembrance) from the famous poem ["For the Fallen"](http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/laurence-binyon-for-the-fallen.htm) by Robert Laurence Binyon.  It is hard to read on the actual stone due to the texture.  

Here is the extract:

<center>**They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.**</center>
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#### 09 - There is a semi-circular area with stone carvings of text describing all the significant conflicts of the last 100 years.
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d546d6c.jpg
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#### 10
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d499c94.jpg
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## The park behind the memorial and commemorative bench
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#### 11
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d755041.jpg
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#### 12
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d4885b5.jpg
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#### 13
https://i.imgsafe.org/244d622736.jpg
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## A historical water fountain adjacent to the park and memorial - sadly it has been vandalised
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#### 14
https://i.imgsafe.org/244c411525.jpg
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#### 15
https://i.imgsafe.org/244c77c86b.jpg
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