Lunch Time
File: 2023007-0140
The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
The guy nearest to the camera is a re-enactor dressed as a Second World War German Heer soldier.
Movies often commonly call them the Wehrmacht which is technically more or less correct. They are actually called the Heer as it is a German word meaning Army.
The Wehrmacht is actually, in the German language meaning defence force, and this word is also used to describe any other nation’s armed forces. Thus Britische Wehrmacht meaning British Armed Forces. The Wehrmacht is actually made up of the Heer (Army), Kriegmarine (Navy), and the Luftwaffe (Air Force).
Here in the photograph, he is seen taking a break, and having food. As it was about nearer to 1pm, I thought to give this photo the title of Lunch Time.
As a re-enactor, he, like many other re-enactors, often would try to eat and drink in the same way as it happens in history, which is why he’s eating from WWII German utensils.
In the background, the guy in the baseball cap and sunglasses is one of the visitors looking around, while drinking possibly beer. Notice the camera equipment he is carrying with him, I’ve noticed him around, taking photos with two different cameras hanging from shoulder harness.
I took the shot in colour, but decided to convert it into black and white while in Lightroom, and cropped it closer in Photoshop, for a more story-telling feel to it.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!
Lunch Time
File: 2023007-0140
The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Friday 23rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
The guy nearest to the camera is a re-enactor dressed as a Second World War German Heer soldier.
Movies often commonly call them the Wehrmacht which is technically more or less correct. They are actually called the Heer as it is a German word meaning Army.
The Wehrmacht is actually, in the German language meaning defence force, and this word is also used to describe any other nation’s armed forces. Thus Britische Wehrmacht meaning British Armed Forces. The Wehrmacht is actually made up of the Heer (Army), Kriegmarine (Navy), and the Luftwaffe (Air Force).
Here in the photograph, he is seen taking a break, and having food. As it was about nearer to 1pm, I thought to give this photo the title of Lunch Time.
As a re-enactor, he, like many other re-enactors, often would try to eat and drink in the same way as it happens in history, which is why he’s eating from WWII German utensils.
In the background, the guy in the baseball cap and sunglasses is one of the visitors looking around, while drinking possibly beer. Notice the camera equipment he is carrying with him, I’ve noticed him around, taking photos with two different cameras hanging from shoulder harness.
I took the shot in colour, but decided to convert it into black and white while in Lightroom, and cropped it closer in Photoshop, for a more story-telling feel to it.
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.
The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.
The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.
However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.
By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.
The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.
TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.
For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
You are free and welcome to comment on my photograph, about the photograph itself, or about the subject in the photo, or about your similar experience. The Comment Box is NOT an advertising billboard to promote any Groups. If you want to promote the groups, do it in YOUR own Photo Page or YOUR own Photostream!