[night86mare] Krakow, Poland

[lastboltnut]

U blended some texture on the photo?

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[night86mare]

I like this! The color tones and composition is nice~

It seems a bit tight from your usual stuff but this is :thumbsup:~

thanks bro, yes, i cropped it a bit

the streets in poland are narrow..

U blended some texture on the photo?

yes, fibres in photoshop..

 

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Police officer stopping cars at random.​

 

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#22

And we now move on to Auschwitz, which I had the chance to visit since it was in the vicinity of Krakow. I think this is one place I do not really need to write up on, seeing how everybody should know something about it or at least read about it at one point in time or another.

This is a record shot of one of the standard buildings in the first camp, which was used as an administrative centre, if my memory serves me right. Originally an army barracks, everything started out here, before later on expanding to Birkenau, a larger camp which I will post later on. The first camp is relatively small.. But it is still large, this is but one building, I think there were perhaps 20 or even more.

I will not pretend that I felt anything when I arrived at the camp, it is summer after all, and it is immensely ironic how it is at this place that I saw some of the most beautiful flower clusters I got to see on this trip. Nonetheless I think everybody will feel some form of emotion, especially when they go to the second camp, which is really, really enormous. But more on the second camp later.

 

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Auschwitz I has been converted into a museum today, with various countries housing their own exhibitions with regards to the atrocities carried out. This is one of the exhibits, it is actually a lot of what is shown here, i.e. many mannequins bent over, wearing the same uniform. The background is filled with pictures of actual people who were incarcerated in the camp.

Also, thought I'd mention first that I have processed this series deliberately to not look like what I saw, because somehow it seems very wrong that blue skies, green grass and flowers should appear in such a place. It's just a personal preference, but I kept one relatively untouched in terms of color just to show how it really looked like, you will see it later on.

 

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For some funny reason the windows in Auschwitz are tinted and give this color. This particular one was the room, if I remember correctly where you have the huge massive amount of hair harvested from the Jews.. The hair stretches across approximately 3 HDB living rooms, by my rough estimate. Really a sight to behold.

 

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Signage with guard post at the perimeter of the camp​

 

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The "Black Wall", where prisoners were executed. This one is a reconstruction.​

 

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Perimeter outlook post over grass and flowers​

 

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Offerings left by people visiting Birkenau​

 

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What must have been the final destination for many people - just how many, we can only imagine​

 

[Drumy]

your pictures are so clean! I love them

 

[night86mare]

your pictures are so clean! I love them

thanks for the kind comments drumy

 

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Guardpost​

 

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Interior of a bunker in Auschwitz Birkenau​

 

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Frontal view of one of the bunkers(?), colors as they were seen​

 

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Guard post from within the camp area​

 

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Gas chamber ruins​

 

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Record shot of that all-time ironic German phrase, Arbeit macht frei.. "Work shall set you free".
Note here that the B in the first word is inverted..
A lot of German concentration camps have this on the gate somewhere, there is speculation as to who placed it there in this particular camp, SS General Theodore Eicke (concentration camp inspector/first commandant of Dachau Concentration Camp) or Rudolf Höß, commandant of Auschwitz I (i think) who believed that his own experience of doing menial work under imprisonment of the Weimar Republic helped him in life.