ORKNEY
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a well weathered post close to the cottage we have rented.
How it looks at Old Point with a more adverse weather condition you can see here
This came 3rd in the Annual Landscape Projected Image Comp at Devizes Camera Club on the 19th Jan 2011. I was hoping to win with this but once again my nemesis Robert Harvey pulled an amazing image out of the bag taking 1st place with an image of Seven Sisters Park in Sussex. Second place was taken by Rod Stowell, another very experiance Royal Photographic Society ARPS awarded photographer; no shame in coming thirds to these two. Check out the Devizes Camera Club website for their images.
Captured whilst up in Orkney back in December.
550 Italian prisoners of war, captured in North Africa during World War II, were brought to Orkney in 1942. They constructed the Churchill Barriers, four causeways created to block access to Scapa Flow. 200 were based at Camp 60 on Lamb Holm. In 1943, Major T P Buckland, Camp 60's new commandant, and Father Giacombazzi, the Camp's priest agreed that a place of worship was required.
The chapel was constructed from limited materials by the prisoners. Two Nissen huts were joined end-to-end. The corrugated interior was then covered with plasterboard and the altar and altar rail were constructed from concrete left over from work on the barriers. Most of the interior decoration was done by Domenico Chiocchetti, a POW from Moena. He painted the sanctuary end of the chapel and fellow-prisoners decorated the entire interior. They created a front facade out of concrete, concealing the shape of the hut and making the building look like a church.
Chiocchetti remained on the island to finish the chapel, even when his fellow prisoners were released shortly before the end of the war (Taken from Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Chapel )
Another of my old shots revisted and processed using LAB Colour mode.