Excellent work, I like the so many details of your chop!
Very effective. I like your use of filters (which filters, by the way?). Maybe you could have found a non copyrighted image for the sunset background... This picture could be used for an advertising. Ahem...
I like how your robot finger pierced the roof of the Trabant... which is far to sharp compared to the rest of the image, maybe you could blur it a bit?
Well done and excellent idea. I like that you coloured the little green pine tree.
Just for you, here is the original photo I took in Prague two years ago (which I already tweaked a bit for the photography contest 😉)
https://imgur.com/a/dnvDGIE
Wery well done. I like the way you damaged my Trabant 😁
Ooooh thank you Lolu. I watched this movie a long time ago and don't remember such a scene. I'll have to watch it again (with great pleasure).
Where is the driver? hope he is safe in the desert...
Thank you Olga.L
Indeed, the church is the only building still standing in this ghost village.
Here is what I found about it:
Geography
Perched at an altitude of 1,880 m at the foot of the Mont-Cenis dam, it is located 12 km downstream from the Mont-Cenis pass. The last hamlet before Italy, it dominates the plateau of Saint-Nicolas, a stone's throw from the border 2 km below. Due to its location it is cut off from the rest of the town throughout the winter season.
History
The village is reunited with France following the Treaty of Paris of 1947 allowing the territory of the province of Maurienne to expand with an area of 81.79 km2. This new border line now encompasses the pass and the valley of Lake Mont-Cenis crossing the watershed line, and thus sees the town return to the Savoyard fold. During the construction of the dam in 1968, the village located at the foot of the dike was gradually abandoned by its inhabitants. The opening of the Fréjus motorway tunnel will definitively seal its fate, with a drastic drop in road traffic. Nowadays only a few second homes remain, occupied in summer, practically following the route of the current road.
The French customs post is located at the entrance to the village. Long a crossing point on the road linking France to the Italian peninsula, the town will reach its peak between 1868 and 1871, when the locality served as a supply point on the railway line built between Saint-Michel and Susa. The railway passing through the Mont-Cenis pass, with a Fell system locomotive, practically following the route of the current road.
We still see today at the foot of the village the remains of the tunnel drilled into the mountainside to pass the train through, with a drastic drop in road traffic.
Grand Cross (called at the time Gran Croce) was detached from the municipality of Lanslebourg during the implementation of the Treaty of Turin of 1860 and was detached from the Duchy of Savoy to be attached to the Kingdom of Italy. Possible reasons that Grand-Croix is now a ghost town is that 1) The Mont-Cenis pass is closed in winter and 2) Benito Mussolini had expropriated French citizens, officially for military reasons. However, this was only a pretext and was an act of hostility towards the French Republic.
What a wonderful way to get rotten. I wish it would happen to me.
No, it is just because this will be the theme for another next contest.
Oh nooooo, it could be useful for others, and moreover it is too funny 🤣😁😊
Could we have more contests please, I feel that it is going to slow, am I the only one ???
More contests please, I feel that it is going to slow, am I the only one ???
