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Bethany Kingsley-Garner as the Dew Drop Fairy in 'Hansel and Gretel' by Scottish Ballet. Choreography is by Christopher Hampson.
The title of this shot is inspired by a Tori Amos lyric: "Do drop in at the Dew Drop Inn."
This is from tonight's dress rehearsal at the Festival Theatre. It opens there tomorrow before touring to: Glasgow; Aberdeen; Inverness; Newcastle; and Belfast.
You can find details about this production (and book tickets) here:
www.scottishballet.co.uk/event/hansel-gretel
My thanks are due to Scottish Ballet's Communications Officer, Carrie McAdam for inviting me.
The Drop Redoubt is one of the two forts on Western Heights, and is linked to the other, the Citadel, by a series of dry moats (the lines). It is, arguably, the most impressive and immediately noticeable feature on Dover’s Western Heights.
The artillery at the Redoubt faced mostly inland; it was intended to attack an invading force attempting to capture Dover from the rear.
The construction of the Redoubt was in two periods: the first being from 1804-1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, and the second from 1859-1864 following the recommendations of the 1859 Royal Commission.
First Period
The original form of the Drop Redoubt was a simple pentagon, formed by cutting trenches into the hillside and revetting (facing) them with brickwork. Thus, the Redoubt was a solid ‘island’ with barracks, magazine, and artillery, on top. Originally, it would have accommodated 200 troops but, by 1893, the numbers had been reduced to just 90.
A striking feature of the first period is the Soldiers’ Quarters – five bomb-proof casemates. These are parabolic in cross section and covered in a thick layer of earth to withstand the effect of mortar-bombs. The windows at the rear of each open into a trench, to protect them against blast.
Second Period
The rise of Napoleon III during the 1850s caused a further invasion scare, and a Royal Commission was set up in 1859 to investigate the defences of Britain. As a result, more work was deemed necessary at the Heights, and the Drop Redoubt had its defences improved. Caponiers were added to four of the corners of the existing fort (each with a stone staircase leading up to the top of the Redoubt), and gunrooms were built alongside two of them to allow fire along the North and South-East Lines. The original magazine was enlarged, and covered with a large earth bank as protection from mortar-fire.
The Officers’ Quarters, Guardroom, and cells also date from this period. They can be distinguished from the earlier work by the semi-circular shape of their arches.
During World War II, the Redoubt housed a squad of commandos that, in the event of invasion, would have been responsible for destroying Dover Harbour. Their presence was secret and the lines around the Redoubt were mined. Evidence of their stay are the sally ports in Caponiers 1 & 2, and the short tunnel leading from the encircling line to Drop Redoubt Road.
The entrance to Drop Redoubt was via a bridge. The inner third of this was pivoted so that the Redoubt could be isolated. The pivot and the recess into which the bridge swung can still be seen, although the bridge has long since gone. In the 1980s, a temporary scaffolding bridge was built by the army to enable access for guided tours of the Redoubt, but this was removed in the middle 1990s to prevent unauthorised entry and vandalism.
He was swooping in to grab some of the popcorn on the ground. He was pretty quick for such a large bird.
some fun dropping a little tomato in water.
Used "open flash" technique: in a dark room, bulb pose and manually triggerd the flash while dropping the tomato.
This week's Strobist Sundays theme was "red".
I've been wanting to try some water drop photos ever since I read about them in this post by David Hobby.
strobist.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-photograph-water-dro...
My setup could not have been simpler. I built a scaffold out of some of my daughter's toys and hung a zip-lock bag over a glass casserole pan. I filled the bag with water and punched a very small hole in the bottom to create a steady drip into the pan, which was filled with about a inch of water. I positioned some foam core directly behind the pan and taped a sheet construction paper to it. The paper was illuminated with a single SB-600 fired at 1/16th power. The lit paper reflected off the water's surface and into the camera, which was set on a tripod looking down from about 30 degrees above the plane of the pan. Using this method, I was able produce any color water surface desired by just changing the color of the construction paper. The camera was fired with a remote trigger. I just hit the button when I saw a drop start to fall. This approach produced about a 30% success rate.
A few items of note that you may not read about in the many water drop tutorials on the web:
1. These types of photos look best if you can maximize the reflection off the surface of the water. If you use a light colored or highly reflective pan, light will reflect off the bottom of the tray, obscuring the water surface detail. To avoid this, I simply lined the bottom of the tray with black construction paper before filling it with water.
2. If, like me, you don't have a macro lens or extension tubes, try the zoom and crop method. My kit Nikon zoom had a minimum focusing distance of about 20 inches at 80mm. This is not quite macro territory, but I was able to get closer by cropping off about 40 percent of the frame. In this era of insanely large megapixel counts, you can easily afford to lose half of your frame. These pictured were produced with my modest 6 megapixel Nikon D50.
The result of being addicted to photography and cycling...
Balgach, Switzerland.
Lomo Supersampler
Kodak Ektachrome 400X cross processed, expired
I got the idea for these noodles from an old pamphlet called "Spring Greens Evelyn's Way", by Evelyn V. Snook. In the pamphlet are recipes made from wild plants like, "Dandelion Blossom Fritters", "Comfrey Candy", Violet Leaves with Tofu", and, "Dandelion Noodles". Evelyn's noodles are the rolled and cut kind, but I took the quick way out, and made drop noodles. With a dollop of sour cream, and a grind of black pepper, they were delicious; much nicer than the bitter things I imagined they'd be.
.....or perhaps we were picking him up.
Anyway, it's not Bismarck.
Rough seas near Tracy Arm, Alaska 2010
Ugandan People’s Defense Forces Brig. Gen. Silver Kayemba (left), exercise director and chief of training and operations, and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Dickerson, exercise deputy director and commander of Task Force Atlas, answer media questions following the Atlas Drop 11 opening ceremony at the Soroti Airfield April 13.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brock Jones, 128th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment, Utah Army National Guard
Atlas Drop 2011 officially began with a morning ceremony at the Soroti Airfield in Eastern Uganda, April 13.
Atlas Drop 11, an annual joint aerial-delivery exercise sponsored by U.S. Army Africa (USARAF), brings together U.S. service members with counterparts from the Ugandan People’s Defense Forces (UPDF), and is designed to enhance the readiness of both countries’ resupply and logistical capabilities.
The two-week training will consist of classroom instruction and a field training exercise. Atlas Drop 11 will increase the capability of both UPDF and U.S. forces to resupply Soldiers operating in remote areas.
Local civic leaders and dignitaries, UPDF leadership, and the Ugandan and U.S. forces involved in the exercise gathered on the airfield tarmac to commemorate the exercise's official start. Maj. Gen. Andrew Gutti, commandant of the UPDF’s Senior Command and Staff College, was the ceremony’s guest of honor.
UPDF Brig. Gen. Silver Kayemba, exercise director and chief of training and operations, and Lt. Col. Jeffrey Dickerson, exercise deputy director and commander of Task Force Atlas, both expressed gratitude for the opportunity for Ugandan and U.S. forces to work together.
“I welcome you all to exercise Atlas Drop 11,” said Kayemba. “This is one of a series of exercises in which we jointly train together. Atlas Drop 11 is going to be an aerial resupply exercise that is directed to giving services to isolated platoons that are working in unfriendly environments.”
“Training is a continuous operation. If you fail to prepare, you have prepared to fail,” he said.
Kayemba then invited Dickerson to speak.
“I first would like to say to you all, eyalama noi noi (thank you very much) for inviting all of us to come to Uganda — to come to the Teso area — to partner with the UPDF,” said Dickerson. “It’s and honor, and it’s a privilege.
“Our coming together here represents not just the partnership between our militaries but the partnership and the bonds between our nations, our governments, and most importantly, our people,” he said. “We are so fortunate and very excited to be partnered with our UPDF brothers here in the Teso area.”
Gutti then spoke and declared the exercise officially open.
“I would like, on behalf of the UPDF, to sincerely thank the U.S. government and her Army in particular for availing us the opportunity to train and practice together these very important operations,” he said. “With these remarks I would like, on behalf of the Chief of Defense Forces, to flag off this exercise and wish you all a very successful exercise.”
Following the ceremony, Ugandan and U.S. Soldiers began training together on rigging aerial-delivery resupply systems, establishing drop zones in remote locations, and various military staff leadership skills such as decision-making processes.
Atlas Drop 11 will end April 20 following three days of live, aerial resupply practice missions to various drop zones established north of Soroti. Distinguished Ugandan and U.S. visitors will attend the final air drops and the closing ceremony at one of the drop zones to marking the exercise's official end.
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