Battlefield Photography, again

Continuing this series...
More recent battlefields will have their monuments too, although with the evolution to continuous lines, you don't see the concentration you find at a place like Gettysburg. The result is that you can come up with shots that are more natural. At times it's a challenge to visualize what occurred at a place. Here is a photograph of Omaha Beach taken from just inside the wall of the US Military Cemetery at Collville-sur-Mere:

Utah beach, with overcast skies, is a little more foreboding (and less populated than Omaha, Omaha being a vacation beach):

But these are really establishing shots, the Omaha Beach photo about how peaceful this holiday location is today, the Utah Beach photo conveying a measure of bleakness on the less popular segment of shoreline. There are actual artifacts of the war about.
In Arromanches, we find remants of a Mulberry:

I've blogged about the military history aspects of the Mulberries previously. From a photography point of view, the mulberries were large, the remaining bits are large, and the days in Normanday are frequently very grey. I turned up the saturation a little to bring up the green seaweed, and the gentleman in the bright blue jacket was an added color bonus in this shot.
To be continued...