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Thames Barrier, Greenwich, City Of London. A very rainy, windy, stormy day providing a dramatic setting around the City tidal defences. 108 seconds @ f/16
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These vipers return from a training mission in perfect afternoon light in Misawa, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Wearing the iconic WW tail code for their primary mission, suppression of enemy air defences, or Wild Weasels.
Well, old ones! Appearing as the tide goes down on the beach at Happisburgh - some of them look as though they could be quite lethal!
Best defence also known as Blind defence. Agree? This group of Weaver Ant trying to defence their territory when i was there taking macro with the full Blast of my Flash. They keep coming up, and my flash do the same, Later they stop attack and ignore me, i guess they already Blind....LOL
Do not stand against the Thunderstorm!!!!!
As soon as its seed leaves are open the Opuntia seedling puts its energy into its first little spines...
One from last April and an early rise for a visit to Spurn Point.
No direct light, but a bit of colour in the sky.
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The bunker is a relic from Berlin's war time and stands in its center. The bunker is so massive that even the Soviet army did not bother to destroy it. Nowadays, it is privately owned and used for art exhibitions.
A trip back to North Norfolk back in November, and a much better than expected sunrise at Cromer. I believe they have beefed up the see defences at Cromer and the rock ‘island’ is part of that?
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SPURN POINT sea defences...
Spurn is a narrow sand tidal island located off the tip of the coast of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England that reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber Estuary.
It was a spit with a semi-permanent connection to the mainland, but a storm in 2013 made the road down to the end of Spurn impassable to vehicles at high tide.
The island is over 3 miles (5 kilometres) long, almost half the width of the estuary at that point, and as little as 50 yards (46 m) wide in places.
The southernmost tip is known as Spurn Head or Spurn Point and is the home to an RNLI lifeboat station and two disused lighthouses.
Over time, the whole spit, length intact, slips back – with the spit-head remaining on its glacial foundation.
This process has now been affected by the protection of the spit put in place during the Victorian era.
This protection halted the wash-over process and resulted in the spit being even more exposed due to the rest of the coast moving back 110 yards (100 m) since the 'protection' was constructed.
The now crumbling defences will not be replaced and the spit will continue to move westwards at a rate of 2.2 yards (2 m) per year, keeping pace with the coastal erosion further north.
or what is sadly left of it
We were there when it was still accessible!
After a job that took us around Hull, we decided to push through to Spurn-point.
Spurn is a very unique place in the British Islands.
It is a nature reserve.
Three and a half miles long and only fifty meters wide in places on the left side of the estuary of the river Humber.
There are a series of sea defence works built by the Victorians and maintained by the Ministry of defence, till they sold Spurn to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust in the 1950s.
The defences are in a poor state, breaking down and crumbling, making Spurn a very fragile place wide open to the ravages of the North Sea.
It is a unique place, qua fauna and flora, very protected; there weren't many people on that Good Friday.
This is what is left of the sea defences on the North Sea side, eerie, tragic, but extremely photogenic...
The light was sweet.
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The Northumbrian coast is littered with the remnants of World War 2 anti tank defences. This image was taken on a stormy morning before dawn on Alnmouth Beach.
Here's another one of those aurora shots from the plane when flying home from Iceland.
When charged particles from the sun (solar wind) strike atoms in Earth's atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher-energy state. When the electrons drop back to a lower energy state, they release a photon: light. This process creates the beautiful aurora, or northern lights.
Earth has a magnetic field which stretches out for thousands of kilometres into space. It's this magnetic field that deflects harmful solar wind towards the poles. Without this deflective magnetic field the solar wind would simply strip the atmosphere from our planet, killing all life on Earth. It's a natural defence mechanism protecting us from the devastating effects of our Sun.
To sit there and witness this from this point of view was really fucking awesome. A dream come true.
Yep, again lovely wintery conditions up there. This one with a bit higher key, hope you like guys ; ) thanks everyone for passing by and taking the time to comment as always very much appreciated.
Camera: Minolta X-300
Lens: Minolta 50mm F1.7
Filter: Hoya Yellow(K2)
Film: Ilford Pan 400 (Expired 06/2013, shot at 250ISO)
Processing and Scanning: Gulabi Photo Lab, Glasgow
Post Processing: Photoscape X
Possibly also here, behind the way, in between Neckargartach and Frankenbach was a 88 gun placed where we now see flowers. The Flak battery Reserve-Flak-Abteilung 253 was part of the air defence of Heilbronn from September/October 1939-April 1940
Chatted with the very talented Rod (blue fin art) when taking this image which is actually the second time we have met whilst out and about.
A view of Stirling castle and the Old Town Cemetery.
Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. The castle sits atop an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification in the region from the earliest times.
Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures remain from the fourteenth century, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.
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Fotografies de la zona de combats de la Batalla del Ebre (1938).
Vilaba dels Arcs vista des del front republicà entorn el cementiri.
El dia 26 de juliol la 33 Brigada republicana captura el cementiri de Vilalba dels Arcs, situant-se per tant just al est de la vila. Però la vall de Lo Camà de Xivell, que els separa del nucli urbà , es molt facil de defensar des de una fortalesa natural com és Vilalba, sobretot des del est.
Des del 27 fins el 31 de juliol. els republicans intentaran conquerir Vilalba, arribant pel que sembla a les primeres cases del poble, però sent refusats. De fet, el 31 mateix abandonen el cementiri, ja que està massa exposat al foc enemic. Aixà acaben els combats en aquest sector de la batalla.
La batalla de l'Ebre (25 juliol - 16 novembre de 1938) fou la més important i mortifera de la guerra civil espanyola. Hi ha que també la consideren també la més decisiva, però crec que per desgracia la guerra ja estava decidida de molt abans, com a minim des del trencament del front d'Aragó el 9 de març del mateix any.
Tot i que l'exèrcit republicà creuà l'Ebre el 25 de juliol del 1938 per molts punts entre Mequinensa i Amposta, la major part dels combats de la batalla es donaren a la Terra Alta, a la zona entre Vilalba dels Arcs, La Fatarella, Camposines i Gandesa, a més de la Serra de Pandols.
www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/GCE_EXT_AntonioQ...
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_l%27Ebre
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This is part of the Ebro battlefield (1938), in Southern Catalonia.
Vilaba dels Arcs seen from the republican front around the cemetery. Part of the village was bombed and burnt in the fight.
On July 26, the 33rd Republican Brigade captured the cemetery of Vilalba dels Arcs, thus being located just east of the town. But the valley which separates them from the village is very easy to defend from a natural fortress such as Vilalba, especially from the east.
From the 27th to the 31st of July. the republicans will try to conquer Vilalba, arriving apparently at the first houses of the village, but being rejected. In fact, on the 31st they leave the cemetery itself, as it is too exposed to enemy fire. Thus ends the fighting in this sector of the battle.
The Battle of the Ebro (July 25 - November 16, 1938) was the most important and deadlier of the Spanish Civil War. There are those who also consider it the most decisive, but I think that unfortunately the war was already decided long before, at least since the breaking of the front of Aragon on March 9 of the same year.
The battle began with the greatest offensive made by the Republican forces, when they crossed the river Ebro between Mequinensa and Amposta (especially between Riba-roja and Miravet), and advanced to the line La Pobla de Massaluca -Vilalba dels Arcs -Gandesa - Serra de Pandols . But in just 48 hours, the dazzling advance was stopped short. Then Franco decided to crush the republican forces hill by hill (with massive artillery and bomber barrages), in a battle of attrition identical to the First World War for which the Republicans had no resources or alternative, especially with the river behind them. The main assaults, which lasted from August 10 to October 29, were concentrated in a very small and devastated area: the triangle Vertex Gaeta - Corbera - Camposines.
Finally, a final offensive on October 30 occupied the ridge of the Serra de Cavalls, making the entire Republican bridgehead unsustainable, which managed, however, to withdraw in an orderly manner until November 16. But the damage was already done, and there were no forces left for a proper defense of Catalonia, which fell three months later. Then, fascist darkness.
www.sbhac.net/Republica/Fuerzas/EPR/EprL/GCE_EXT_AntonioQ...
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The sea defences at Happisburgh, Norfolk are a constant attempt to hold back the tide. The old wooden ones from the 80's had little success holding back the inevitable and the cliffs eroded back threatening the village that stands upon them.
I remember covering a news story here for Anglia Press Agency some 20 years ago about a bungalow teetering on the edge of a cliff collapse, yet was up for sale! 'Is this Britain's hardest home sell?' was the headline. It was given just 6 months to survive, so I doubt it was ever sold and now undoubtedly it's a feature of the beach below.
This block was part of the foundation of a shallow stair case connecting the cliff-top with the beach. The cliff long since eroded to sand and rubble, and the steel stairs removed, this is the only remnant.