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Back From Guard Duty Art Print
by Doug Matthews
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Back From Guard Duty art print by Doug Matthews. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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A scene in the old fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. This was a miserable, wet, foggy outpost of the French... more
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Artist's Description
A scene in the old fortress of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada. This was a miserable, wet, foggy outpost of the French empire and most soldiers posted there were not in the best of moods. This image is intended to reflect this.
The Fortress of Louisbourg is a National Historic Site of Canada and the location of a one-quarter partial reconstruction of an 18th-century French fortress at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Its two sieges, especially that of 1758, were turning points in the Anglo-French struggle for what today is Canada. The original settlement was made in 1713, and initially called Havre � l'Anglois. Subsequently, the fishing port grew to become a major commercial port and a strongly defended fortress. The fortifications eventually surrounded the town. The walls were constructed mainly between 1720 and 1740. By the mid-1740s Louisbourg was one of the most extensive (and expensive) European fortifications constructed in N...
About Doug Matthews
I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...
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Scott Kingery
Great atmospheric image, Doug. Wonderful sense of history depicted here. L/F
Caitlyn Grasso
Very well done!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Caitlyn
Robert McCubbin
COOL!~L
Doug Matthews replied:
Thank you, Robert
Doug Matthews
Thank you, Beverly and Kathleen
Beverly Guilliams
Beautiful Piece of Artwork....................v.
Kathleen K Parker
What a fine image!! fvt kk
Marco Oliveira
Terrific image, Doug! V.
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Marco
Priscilla Burgers
Wonderful work!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Priscilla.