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The challenge this week is to show how we look up and then look down when we are photographing. I’ve dug through my images and come up with these.
Can you see the tiny church on the mountain top? It’s almost in the centre of the image. This was taken from a Gondola coming down from Mt. Pilatus near Lucerne in Switzerland.
And now we are going up in the funicular to Mt. Floyen in Bergen
And now for something completely different. Look down on the beach here, this is Utah Beach in Normandy, France, scene of the D-Day Landings during World War ll. Up these cliffs the Allied soldiers had to climb, cut down by machine-gun fire from the entrenched enemy in concrete bunkers on the top of the cliffs, and this after having waded to the beach from the landing craft. No wonder so many thousands died on that day.
The second photograph is looking up at the effigy of a soldier hanging from the steeple of Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy. On 5th June 1944 a US paratrooper of the American Airborne Landing forces was caught on the steeple as he descended. He feigned death to escape being shot at and was eventually taken down by an enemy soldier from whom he escaped. The village has kept the effigy (hanging just below the white flag) as a reminder of those days.
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MARI'S TRAVELS WITH HER CAMERA 
I did not know there was a Utah beach. When I think of Utah, I immediately thought the United States. Utah state is very inland and nowhere near any beaches :-P.
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Ah! Sorry for that, my fault. I didn’t want to delve too deeply into the history of World War ll when I put those images up, but when the D-Day Landings to liberate Europe were being planned by the Allied forces based in England, in 1944, the beaches of Normandy, France, were given coded names so that the enemy would not pick up the references. The landings took place on five beaches and they were named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword. Most of the Americans landed on Utah. Hope this explains things.
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Great examples, Mari! I have to chime in on the first one!
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That opening shot is amazing – what a view!
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Taken in the days when I used slides in my trusty Canon SLR long since sold on due to the weight and being seduced by digital!
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Your scanner must be better than ours, it still looks good!
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Great response to the challenge. I love your opener photo, amazing!
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Thank you. My first response to your challenge I think, but I hope to contribute again.
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🙂
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