New perspectives of an old friend

General Warren on his rock. To the right of the general, in the distance, is the Pennsylvania Memorial, the

large structure with the dome. On the upper left of the image is the Codori barn.

              Very few locations at National Military Parks offer as many amazing photographic opportunities as Little Round Top at Gettysburg. The vistas from that little hill can be spell-binding for the viewer and offer gifts of every variety for photographers. If there is one commanding feature on LRT, it is the statue of federal general Gouverneur K. Warren.

The General with Cemetery Ridge in the distance.

          The general is so well posed that it is almost impossible to walk by without looking in the distance and imagining what he saw and did on July 2, 1863. Warren is a genuine hero of Gettysburg. His contribution to the Union victory in that battle can’t be overstated. If you should happen to have a camera in your hand it is almost impossible to ignore the general when you walk the hill.

          Even if you already have hundreds of images of the statue.

         

Your Loyal Blogger went looking for a new view of the general in June, new for this blog anyway. Other photogs have certainly captured these same angles at one time or another through the years, but they are new here. Different views of a tried and true subject can be a photographer’s joy.

          One challenge was to capture the general with both the Pennsylvania Memorial and the Codori barn in the same frame. It sounded easy, but so did

learning to drive a stick-shift. This collection started with the goal of collecting all three battlefield features in one image. The Memorial is to the right in the images, the barn is to the left.

          The other challenge was to keep the general’s interest while photographing features outside of his view. Well, you can’t win ‘em all.

          Also included in this collection is an image that does not include the general. Instead, the prominent feature is the monument to the 155^th Pennsylvania Volunteers. This monument’s soldier is looking in the proper direction for the barn and the Pennsylvania Memorial because that unit fended off an attack from the direction of the Wheatfield, which he is looking at.

          YLB hopes you appreciate the effort involved here, even if the results might not be perfect. And thanks for reading.