Images from a restless Nikon

          A few hours before the start of this year’s Civil War Institute, your loyal blogger

Back lighting provides a nice image.

took to the battlefield with a camera, a tripod and a dream.

          The camera was the trusty Nikon D90 DSLR, just a terrific platform. The tripod was the nifty 58-inch, dual-bubble gizmo my wife bought the night before for just such contingencies.

          The dream was to get a decent image.

          The first two shots in this sure-to-be award-winning collection come from the Devils Den area of the battlefield, the memorial to the 4^th New York Battery that served the Union cause so well during the second day of the battle of Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

          There are a lot of possibilities with this statue, but this was a morning shoot and the backlight shot simply instructed the photographer to forget everything else on the morning’s list and begin working right there.

       

The business end of the canon provides
a nice addition to the image here.

   Backlight images are fun to produce and this one works very well because the sun is obviously behind the subject and the background is clear.

          Another image from the same area shows an attempt to get creative, using the barrel of a cannon to help frame the statue. Right, re-read the previous sentence. This was an attempt to be creative, not a promise to be creative.

          The next two images show two views of one of the more popular stops for this particular photographer: The memorial to the Andrew Sharpshooters on the Loop near the Rose Farm.

The Andrew Sharpshooters.

          The first image is a generic view. The second image is from in front of the monument. Take a look at the nice detail on this monument and the placement within the trees. This is a superior location and your loyal blogger has many hundreds of

Note the damage to the neck area. The
National Park Service has a group of
dedicated men and women who spend
their time repairing cases like this.

images of the monument.

          The last image in this collection shows a position marker neat the crest of Culp’s Hill. The marker details the position of the 60^th New York regiment on the side of the hill.

          The positioning leads me to believe the Federal breastworks that were put up to help stop the charging Confederates may have been lodged in this general area. A little investigation is in order next week be accurate on that suggestion.

          Either way, the setting is very nice.

          Getting back up the slope was a challenge, but life never promised to be easy.

         
          Thanks for reading.