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Vietnam Memorial


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Located between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial on

the Mall in Washington, the dramatic Vietnam Veterans Memorial was

dedicated in November 1982. The privately financed monument was

officially accepted by Ronald Reagan on Nov. 11, 1984, when he signed

a document transferring the memorial to the U.S. Park Service. The

V-shaped memorial (the Wall) consists of two 250-ft walls of polished

black granite sloping to the ground from an apex of 10 feet. The walls

are inscribed with the names of the more than 58000 USA men and women

who were killed or missing in the Vietnam War. Privately funded

through the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund headed by Jan Scruggs, the

memorial was designed by Maya Ying Lin, a Yale architecture student

whose design was chosen over 1421 others submitted in the public

competition. To ease a controversy aroused by the nontraditional

appearance of the memorial, a sculpture of three servicemen and a flag

were placed off to the side. With the desire of Peace in Iraq and of

which other military memorials are not necessary in the future!

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Me encanta la composicion y la luz. Tormenton al fondo y luz en la escena y el capitolio. Pero lo que me parece genial es que no salga el reflejo de la mujer asiatica.
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Una belleza de composicion y de gran profundidad y una gran perspectiva. Los reflejos y el Washington Monument al final contra eses cielo tan oscuro una maravilla.

 

Me gusta muchisimo.

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Muy buena imagen con una composicion muy elaborada, gran profundidad de campo con el punto de fuga en el centro de la imagen, lo que potencia el tama�o de un monumento que nunca deberia de haber existido. Gran idea la incorporacion de la figura de la se�ora oriental de primer plano.

Gran trabajo.

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Chula, muy chula. La asiatica es la que hace que la foto funcione, junto con ese obelisco del fondo.... lo unico mejorable para mi gusto.... las letras del marco...... demasiado simples, grandes y cursivas.... :P muy buena.
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I've been here many times. This is well composed along with a dramatic looking sky. My question is; why are the clouds reflecting on the wall WHITE, while the sky itself is dark and gray? Obviously the sky in this image is not natural. You should fix the clouds reflecting on the wall, to match what you have done to the sky for this to really work. Other that that, a nice photograph here.
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La perspectiva, el juego de lineas, el reflejo, esa luz tan bonita, la encuentro perfecta. Me da una sensacion limpia, lineal, con la mujer del primer plano haciendo de contrapunto, solo hay una cosa que veo rara que es el perfil de los arboles que parece como recortado.
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This is simply the best image of this memorial I have ever seen...the souls of those remembered are reflected in the wall and in the souls that remember....Awesome. Juan
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