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![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/139248169_LNQYc-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9965]
’Folded paper in the Gorges de Daluis.’
Massive rock looking like folded alu paper, one of the highlights of the Gorges de Daluis, at a 1,5 hour drive from Nice and the Côte d'Azur. This gorge, carved in red slate, is as spectaculair as the famous slot canyons of the American Southwest. And although it is closer to civilisation and more easily accessible, it attracts less visitors. I counted thirteen on a sunny august day! You can hike the complete length of the canyon if you are not afraid of wet feet. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/113230750_wbHSS-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9965]
’Folded paper in the Gorges de Daluis.’
Massive rock looking like folded alu paper, one of the highlights of the Gorges de Daluis, at a 1,5 hour drive from Nice and the Côte d'Azur. This gorge, carved in red slate, is as spectaculair as the famous slot canyons of the American Southwest. And although it is closer to civilisation and more easily accessible, it attracts less visitors. I counted thirteen on a sunny august day! You can hike the complete length of the canyon if you are not afraid of wet feet. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9962b]
’Folded paper in the Gorges de Daluis.’
Massive rock looking like folded paper, one of the highlights of the Gorges de Daluis, at a 1,5 hour drive from Nice and the Côte d'Azur. This gorge, carved in red slate, is as spectaculair as the famous slot canyons of the American Southwest. And although it is closer to civilisation and more easily accessible, it attracts less visitors. I counted thirteen on a sunny august day! You can hike the complete length of the canyon if you are not afraid of wet feet. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/113230361_AfAmj-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9962b]
’Folded paper in the Gorges de Daluis.’
Massive rock looking like folded paper, one of the highlights of the Gorges de Daluis, at a 1,5 hour drive from Nice and the Côte d'Azur. This gorge, carved in red slate, is as spectaculair as the famous slot canyons of the American Southwest. And although it is closer to civilisation and more easily accessible, it attracts less visitors. I counted thirteen on a sunny august day! You can hike the complete length of the canyon if you are not afraid of wet feet. Photo Paul Smit.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9978]
’Gorges de Daluis.’
There are spots where hardly any light reaches the bottom of the steep and narrow Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France). Carved in red slate, with its shades of purple and violet, it is one of the most beautiful and spectacular canyons in Europe. At just 1,5 hours from Nice and the Côte d'Azur it is more accessible then its famous counterparts in the American Southwest. If you don't mind getting wet feet you can walk its complete length. Photo Mick Palarczyk.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/111900193_2hgF2-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [FRANCE.ALPSSOUTH 9978]
’Gorges de Daluis.’
There are spots where hardly any light reaches the bottom of the steep and narrow Gorges de Daluis (Alpes-Maritimes, France). Carved in red slate, with its shades of purple and violet, it is one of the most beautiful and spectacular canyons in Europe. At just 1,5 hours from Nice and the Côte d'Azur it is more accessible then its famous counterparts in the American Southwest. If you don't mind getting wet feet you can walk its complete length. Photo Mick Palarczyk.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7716]
'Balls everywhere.'
Balls of layered sandstone above the Paria Canyon. They may be of micro-organic origin, dating from the Jurassic era.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/106652498_6tfCZ-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7716]
'Balls everywhere.'
Balls of layered sandstone above the Paria Canyon. They may be of micro-organic origin, dating from the Jurassic era.")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3868] 'The Wave.' Behind the ravines entrance I walk into a giant wave of what seems to be a sticky red fluid with white stripes. Like sour cream stirred into pumpkin soup ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048582_YFes4-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3868] 'The Wave.' Behind the ravines entrance I walk into a giant wave of what seems to be a sticky red fluid with white stripes. Like sour cream stirred into pumpkin soup ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7689] 'Holes in the rock.' Some walls are decorated with complicated patterns of indentations, holes and caves. It looks like a group of crazy sculptors with a strange sense of humour have been at work (Paria Canyon).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048581_VWdEZ-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7689] 'Holes in the rock.' Some walls are decorated with complicated patterns of indentations, holes and caves. It looks like a group of crazy sculptors with a strange sense of humour have been at work (Paria Canyon).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3879] 'Side wave.' I walk on in a side wave, a whole network of waves, some narrow and some half submerged. ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048579_RTKgj-Ti-1.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.ARIZONA 3879] 'Side wave.' I walk on in a side wave, a whole network of waves, some narrow and some half submerged. ('The Wave' in nature reserve Coyote Buttes).")
![Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7702] 'Our diner table.' The table on which we eat our dry dinner comes straight off a Seventies album cover of the symphonic rock group Yes (camping wild in the Paria Canyon).](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/2048576_aob3C-Ti.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [USA.UTAH 7702] 'Our diner table.' The table on which we eat our dry dinner comes straight off a Seventies album cover of the symphonic rock group Yes (camping wild in the Paria Canyon).")
[GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
![Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.](http://paulsmit.smugmug.com/photos/139248169_LNQYc-S.jpg "Smit & Palarczyk > [GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.")
[GERMANY.SACHSEN 39]
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
'Völkerschlachtdenkmal near Leipzig.'
Everything looks heavy, the atmosphere is dark and the interior seems to be imported straight from the computer game Doom: the Völkerschlachtdenkmal. It seems as if the granite giants can wake up from their slumber any moment and crush you under their weight. It was built in 1913 as a monument for peace and commemorates the tens of thousands of deceased soldiers that fell one hundred years earlier in an enormous battle against Napoleon.
In reality nothing refers to peace, and everything to megalomanic, brainless Teutonhood. Maybe not so strange, being constructed only one year before the First World War. It shows clearly with which philosophy the country would thrust itself into war. Its Wagnerian, mythical Germanian kitsch makes clear that Germany was in fact ready for Nazism in 1913, ten years before its actual conception. Photo Paul Smit.
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