Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tyneham Ghost Village
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:33:15 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013  Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote:
Subject: [Leica] IMG: Tyneham Ghost Village 

>Tyneham is a ghost village in south Dorset, England. The village and 
>7,500 acres of surrounding 
>heathland around the Purbeck Hills were commandeered just before 
>Christmas 1943 by the 
>War Office for use as firing ranges for training troops. 

>Thanks for looking and all comments welcome! 
-- 
>Jay,
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The pictures are nice enough, but I don't get a sense of the ghost village.  
These could have been taken almost anywhere. 

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA POY 1978
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt



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