Your eyes slowly adjust to the gloom but immediately start to sting. Dust and plaster has fallen down from the ceiling, and you taste it in your dry mouth. Slowly the ceiling lights flicker on as the emergency generator starts up, and people begin to pick themselves up... ...Its August 9th. You've just survived the biggest killer of man in history. In 30 minutes, 3.6 billion people have died across the globe. Unknown to you, the population of the UK has quartered, and will continue to drop. You think briefly of your family before being dragged onto your feet by your platoon sergeant... "Come on son, there's work to be done!" Comes the gruff voice from the dark... but not yet... for now we wait... in the dark...
A Shaky hand took this photo on the evening that we took Peninsular Wharf. I was in one of the landing craft ferrying the wounded back to our Forward Base in Bermondsey. The union had set fire to the building around them as we closed in.
I looked over my shoulder whilst trying to stem the blood flow from Hoxley's ruptured femoral artery, and saw this sight, worthy of a picture I thought.
We lost so many that day. Most in the crossing... we were just sitting ducks. By the time we reached the quay, we we're so depleted that it was a wonder that we made any headway at all. The worst thing was the wounded who fell off the landing craft and barges, you could hear them coughing and spluttering as they disappeared into the dark water. We were just too damn heavy, and too exposed...
meh. improve brush work and vary the brick textures.
Nice fire though.
Its allright i think, but its too regular for any old building in london. Might just be that you need to vary your textures with some grime. Soot maybe. + ive never seen the thames look so... milky?
Good photography though with the reflection in the water.
I like the idea. keep it up
the thames does look quite milky there, i wil fix it. and i dont know if you guys went to the docks before they were knocked down, but large section we're built in the same brickwork, therefore retaining the same 'texture'.
Whats your aa at?
aa?
anti aliasing
Well I've got to make some constructive criticism here, hopefully for the better.
I'm unfamiliar with this building, but should you be able to see the sky through the top windows?
The sky on the right leaves this impression like the map just 'stops'.
Usually building fires have much more smoke, and depending on the building, flames can often 'leap' much more outward than depicted here.
On that note with the flames, they are all very even looking.
Just some thoughts.
On the bright side, the reflection does add a nice effect to it. Though if someone was standing on a landing craft, wouldn't that make the camera a little too close to the water?
yeah, i wanted it to be as close to the water as possible to give off more of a better perspective.
The roofs of all the buildings collapsed during the initial nuclear blast, and fell backwards on the opposite side of the buildings, that's why the sky is visible behind the roof.
All points on everyone's criticism and noted. I really appreciate them, and they will be addressed when i do the final touches to this map.
I will find out the aa when i took the picture and let you know.