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Symmetrical view of a forest path leading to a stone monument, with a brick wall and engraved tablet in the foreground.

Symmetrical view of a forest path leading to a stone monument, with a brick wall and engraved tablet in the foreground.

Symmetrical one-point perspective, camera low at seated height, looking straight along a narrow mown grass corridor into a dense summer wood. Centred close in the foreground, a low broad red brick block with a thin pale stone cap; an upright cracked weathered grey stone tablet is set into its front face, leaning slightly back. Far away at the end of the corridor, small in the distance, a slender upright grey stone pillar on a stepped brick base, only its top third showing above a waist-high green carpet of brambles. Tall trunks left and right. Soft overcast summer light. Photograph, 35 mm.GEDENKORT DRÜLT — BASE SPECIFICATION SITE. Dense mixed woodland in Schleswig-Holstein, high summer, late morning, soft overcast with a few slanting sunbeams through a broken canopy. Tall straight conifer trunks with scaly grey bark stand among beech, sycamore maple and oak; several trunks are thickly clad in ivy; a fallen trunk lies in the undergrowth. The forest floor is a dense knee- to waist-high green carpet of brambles, ground elder and balsam, growing right up to the edge of the monument ground. Around the monument itself, and in a strip about 10 m long along the axis, the ground is mown short — rough uneven forest grass, with the wood standing directly at its edge. A narrow bare-earth forest track curves past. COMPOSITION. Three elements on one straight axis, strictly mirror-symmetrical. 1 THE EXEDRA, at the near end. Towards the arriving walker it is a straight, upright wall of red Ver mais