[ART]_CONnected

DYING TWICE A DAY...

I was looking for event to test a new lens, the Sigma 120-400mm (and for something that my 5-year old boy would enjoy too ;-) and discovered by pure chance an advertising for the reenact of the Battle of Austerlitz from 1805 at a castle in the Waldviertel Region of Lower Austria. Arriving there we where in the middle of the training of attacks and counterattacks, of dramatic dying sequences and unsystematic marches in the inner bailey. The performance itself then was far more realistic (aside of the fact that there where only about 50 or say soldiers compared with the 72,000 French soldiers and the 85,000 soldiers of the Russian and Austrian Army at the real battle). 

In contemplation of the battle...

Then the battle started. And it became noise and the "battlefield" was soon filled with smoke...

The first casualties...

Then the battle was over. The smoke cleared away. And the KIA's stood up, saluted and marched away to the camp to get some refreshment. Three hours later there was the repetition of the battle...