On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > G'day all > > Another one from my trip to Western Australia. > > At Geraldton there is a memorial to the sailors who were lost off the WA > coast when the HMAS Sydney II was sunk in WW2. It's a particularly > beautiful memorial and it's focal pint is a silver dome with 645 silver > seagulls - one for each sailor lost. > > The memorial is even more significant now than in the past - the wreck > of the Sydney (and the Kormoran, the German raider that sank her) was > located in 2008, about 100 km off the coast at a depth of 2,468 metres. > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/186421/645_Seagulls.html
And here I was thinking it was seagulls taken with a medium format camera... Very interesting photo of what sounds like a moving memorial. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
