Asher, thank you for the work on the image, you even copy righted it for me.
I am in Nicaragua but almost no chance to take photos other than family related.
I could post one from the series that on my web site, I could write a bit about the image now that I am sitting on a WiFi stream in my brother's house.
(there seams to be a problem with me embedding the image here, so I will copy the link to it on my web...
http://leonardobarreto.com/AQUI/source/055.htm
This is an image of a group of soldiers and it was captured with a slow shutter and TriXPan probably with a Canon 50mm f1.4
This was the all volunteer army Ejercito Popular Sandinista (they had a draft law after) and we where holding this ground for tree days from the "contras" that where on the other side of a small hill. It was a safe place, but the idea was to assault the enemies position something that was attempted unsuccessfully during that time. I counted at least 6 fatalities on my part of the trenches. As a journalist I was not allowed to charge enemy positions, but officers informed us that "everyone of us are going to the assault tomorrow morning"
So we went to "sleep" with this in mind: we attack at dawn. The only problem was that we knew that that there was a high mortality rate on the soldiers that did that earlier.
In the photo you can see the stress of the battles past and future in this very young men that hold their guns and to themselves and sit there in a close group making no jokes and not knowing where to look at. One can count now looking at the picture four of them looking towards the photographer and his camera, maybe thinking that this was somehow an historic moment and that it was being capture for posterity. Had they forgot about their dead friends and concentrated in their own mortality? ... don't know, but early next morning we all found out that the contras had escaped in the cover of the night.