This wasn't a combination I'd seen before, waves crashing down beside deep snow. But then I've never been to either of the poles. I think there is a flying cormorant in shot, but sadly no penguins or walruses were in view, but this is only Dysart after all.

Hunstanton Beach

Will return for another attemp at some point.

Coastal defence scheme completed at Aberaeron, Ceredigion, Wales, UK

20-1102 Japan Air Self Defence Force B747-400 London Heathrow Airport

Titan Pipeline Defence

I joined the Octan Security Services straight out of the Spaceforce. After a four year tour on Earth's moon trying to keep the locals under control while resentment of Earth-gov control became endemic. The final uprising, caused by a Spaceforce ship crashing into a school bus was nasty and I saw things. Things no one should see, things I won't talk about.

So here I am on Titan, sixth moon of Saturn, where the rocks are made of water, hard as granite and the rivers and lakes are liquid hydrocarbons, methane and ethane, all the 'thanes' as Gunther puts it. Gunther is my boss here, he basically sits in the control room and tells us where the Meth-Roaches are swarming, he's okay, pretty messed up from stuff he saw on the moon too though.

Meth-Roaches? Yeah, well when humans got here to Titan there was no life, not even bacteria. Great for the oil companies of course, nothing for the hippies to protest about. The Mars settlers wanted to burn hydrocarbons to create an atmosphere, the oil companies had a nice new supply of them. All great, but 'life finds a way' as that old movie put it. The bacteria mutated first, but we weren't watching for that then the roaches first learned to cope with the intense cold, then somehow their mitochondrial DNA started to run on methane instead of oxygen. The scientists tell me it was probably from eating the bacteria. Then they took the moon for themselves, titanic Roaches on Titan. Almost funny.

Most of them eat the bacteria or each other, the problem is the pipelines are slightly warmer, so the bacteria grow more around them, the Methane Roaches (Meth-Roaches) chomp on it, lots of leaks follow.

So I'm a bug squisher! We can shoot them if there's good cause, but firing lasers has a small chance of igniting the landscape (if we hit a pocket of frozen oxygen) and the gattling-railgun is hard to get ammunition for, so we generally stamp on them, they crunch quite satisfyingly. The pays pretty good, too and there are no Lunar-citizens throwing IED's at me. In another five years when my contract is done I should be able to buy a house in an area of Earth where the environment is still reasonable or maybe Mars, lots of room on Mars. Life is good.

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Fougères is a town on the edge of Brittany, Maine and Normandy and named after a fern or from "fous" which means "fossé" ["gap"] (in Brittany and Normandy, a gap is a terrace of land formed by the excavations made on each side of the terrace, and serving as a separation between two properties).

2015 07 28 135922 France Brittany Fougères 1HDR

Sea Defence at Gorleston

Fort Southwick is one of the forts found on Portsdown Hill, which overlooks the naval base of Portsmouth in the county of Hampshire, England.

Fort Southwick was built to defend the landward approaches to the naval base on the recommendation of the Royal Commission on the Defence of the United Kingdom which reported in 1860.

It was sold by the Ministry of Defence in July 2003 to the "Fort Southwick Company Limited", who intend to convert the barrack block into luxury apartments.

It has been a Grade I Listed Building since 1987.

1.e4 Nf6

A 191 second exposure of the tide breakers at New Brighton as the tide is coming in

Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy, France

ODC-Defence

I was happy to see this huge lawnmower cleaning up the tall grass along the road. Ticks hide in it and when you walk your dog the tick will wait for the dog to brush up against the weeds and the tick will grab on to the dog. Thanks for the info. Jeff.

Australian Defence Force

A single Boeing F/A-18F "Super Hornet" flying upwards into the heavens and firing a flare as a countermeasure and make infrared-guided missile(s) seek out the heat signature from the flare rather than the aircraft's engines.

Photograph by: Rouben Dickranian

My first experiment with Steelwool

Thanks to Sagar,Prakash & Rohit

Skegness Lincolnshire

An interesting arrangement of concrete sections defending the beach from the sea at New Brighton near Birkenhead

Eighth and last round of Rogue Olympics 2024, as always with a piece count limit of 101. Topic is "focus" or the german word "Fokus". In Germany you can also call it "Brennpunkt" and since I like to interpret topics a bit I thought about "Brennpunktviertel" which means something like "deprived districts". So I built a small scene of a woman defending the trailor park and her home from being cleared. The scene is a free interpretation of the clearing of the Bambule trailer park in Hamburg in 2002.

Dyxum's day prime day 45 with Minolta MD Rokkor 45 mm 1:2

Sea defences almost look like tyre tracks

Peacock butterfly in early morning sun

This mech came to me Dec. 2019, and on uptil now (June 2020) i have done 10 to 15 robots and mechs, i will upload in the near future, for your enjoyment!

The idea behind this one, is a farmers rebuilt farmermech, for defense against alien invasion. it was meant to part of my 'Predator* series, (you can see the first parts in my stream), but due to pandemic restrictions as you know all events was cancelled, and i stopped building for baseplate displays....... bla bla bla

Here is a mech, enjoy! ;-))

Bunker della seconda guerra mondiale

Hatherwood Point Battery - So ugly that its beautiful? Discuss :)

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This is the submarine defences for the River Themes

Bunker della seconda guerra mondiale

Face au Parc Forillon (Panorama HDR 14 photographies)

"The Skåne Line (Swedish: Skånelinjen), popularly known as the Per Albin Line (Swedish: Per Albin-linjen) after then-Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson, was a 500 kilometer long line of light fortifications erected during World War II around the coast of southern Sweden to protect the country from a possible German or Soviet invasion. It stretched from Halland across Skåne to Blekinge and consisted of two defensive lines:

First defensive line: concrete bunkers along the shore, armed with machine guns and light cannons.

Second defensive line: armed troops 300 meters inland behind barbed wire, some in concrete bunkers.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%A5ne_Line

Blyth. Northumberland, North East England, UK.

I always wanted to build a huge gattling and finally took the opertunity and build it :) I hope you like it!

Description: Colour sketch sent to the Ministry of Defence of a ‘spaceship’ creating crop circles

Date: 1998?

Our Catalogue Reference: DEFE 24/1999 p.47

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