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Peg Brantman’s Award-winning Photo
Honor and Remember
A tribute to all veterans this month.
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by Laura Haraldson
Photo by Peg Brantman
The Hamel American Legion marches in formation, presents the colors, does a gun salute and performs “Taps” at several of the area’s small cemeteries.
Even though Peg Brantman’s photo, Honor and Remember, was photographed on Memorial Day 2013 at St. Joseph Catholic Church off Rockford Road, the gripping imagery serves to commemorate our veterans, alive and deceased. “I like to do a lot of close-up, detail-oriented photography,” Brantman says. “Although I shot other photos of the flags, the guns and the other participants that day, my favorite was my bugler— I loved his cap. The dark, flat slouch hat with white hair sticking out caught my attention and was my main focus, but of course, there were also his hands on the bugle. I liked the blurred background with the hint of the cemetery stones to place the event. I chose to process it in black and white, because I felt it more fitting to the event I was portraying.”
Both of Brantman’s parents, now deceased, served in World War II and, in fact, met in India where they served on the same base for a time, so Veterans and Memorial Days hold special significance. “I really appreciate the military honors at our cemetery since my parents are buried in Illinois, and I’m not able to honor them there,” she says. “I think November is a wonderful time to run this photo as a reminder to ‘honor and remember.’”
A frequent contributor to this page thanks to her talents, Brantman and her husband Frank have lived in Plymouth since 1989, shortly after their youngest child graduated from high school in southwest Minnesota.
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Honor and Remember by Peg Brantman earned first-place honors in the Events and Activities category of the 2013 Picture Plymouth photo contest.
The Hamel American Legion marches in formation, presents the colors, does a gun salute and performs “Taps” at several of the area’s small cemeteries.
Even though Peg Brantman’s photo, Honor and Remember, was photographed on Memorial Day 2013 at St. Joseph Catholic Church off Rockford Road, the gripping imagery serves to commemorate our veterans, alive and deceased.
“I like to do a lot of close-up, detail-oriented photography,” Brantman says. “Although I shot other photos of the flags, the guns and the other participants that day, my favorite was my bugler— I loved his cap. The dark, flat slouch hat with white hair sticking out caught my attention and was my main focus, but of course, there were also his hands on the bugle. I liked the blurred background with the hint of the cemetery stones to place the event. I chose to process it in black and white, because I felt it more fitting to the event I was portraying.”
Both of Brantman’s parents, now deceased, served in World War II and, in fact, met in India where they served on the same base for a time, so Veterans and Memorial Days hold special significance. “I really appreciate the military honors at our cemetery since my parents are buried in Illinois, and I’m not able to honor them there,” she says. “I think November is a wonderful time to run this photo as a reminder to ‘honor and remember.’”
A frequent contributor to this page thanks to her talents, Brantman and her husband Frank have lived in Plymouth since 1989, shortly after their youngest child graduated from high school in southwest Minnesota.
Honor and Remember by Peg Brantman earned first-place honors in the "Events and Activities" category of the 2013 Picture Plymouth photo contest.
