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Die aktuell weltpolitische Lage erfordert immer wieder den Einsatz von Spezial Kräften.
The current global political situation repeatedly requires the deployment of special forces.
For many years the forces of Arbenheim have tested their neighboring kings power by pillaging border villages. In an attempt protect his people the king ordered small encampments around the borders. One location was the homestead of Maerwynn, an important location as it was host to one of the few mills in the area. The kings intuition had been right, for only a fortnight later did the horns of Arbenheim sound in the village of Maerwynn.
A collaboration between SirWilsonBricks and myself for the CBS 2017. His is the left, my side is on the right.
Hay, after me finally finishing editing (which is a bit sloppy in places) here it is :D This was our main build for the show and it is the biggest build to date for both of us. It was great fun planning, skyping, planning, bricklinking, more planning and finally building this whoppa. If I could change a couple things I probably would (namely the ground texturing on my side) but it still came out looking incredible. The reception we got at the CBS was also great, with loads of people loving. I must say though, I may have stared a kid to death after he said "Hey mum, look NEXO KNIGHTS"
Speaking of the CBS, it was a real blast and getting to know people better, meeting new people was awesome :) and of course seeing new creations (cough David Hense... Cough) Cannot wait to next year to see everyone again.
Another creation on the way and hope you enjoy, C&C always wanted.
I found some close ups on a few parts here they are:
The album
In a show of force by Mother Nature the lava bench created from the lava ocean entry collapsed on the last day of 2016. Just a few weeks prior I made my visit to the 61g ocean entry lava flow under the guidance of Lava Light. After dueling tough conditions and getting the gist of shooting lava the first day I was far more prepared for day 2 of action.
The night before, Nick prayed for us to have surface lava flow on the bench. His prayers came true as two small rivers of lava flowed on the bench surface pouring into the ocean. When twilight approached the rivers suddenly expanded and became one large river gushing with lava. In a mere matter of minutes the conditions totally changed and we were witnessing small lake of lava plunging into the ocean. To make conditions even better about a half dozen water spouts came and went during the morning. I was fortunately in position to capture this water spout positioned right between the two entry plumes. By this time much of the large river had crusted over leaving only two smaller surface flows exposed. Nonetheless, Aaron, Zach, and I had a blast (no pun intended) out at the ocean entry this morning.
Sony α7r II
EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II
Green plants have the ability to make their own food. They do this through a process called photosynthesis, which uses a green pigment called chlorophyll. Chlorophyll’s job in a plant is to absorb light—usually sunlight. The energy absorbed from light is transferred to two kinds of energy-storing molecules. Through photosynthesis, the plant uses the stored energy to convert carbon dioxide (absorbed from the air) and water into glucose, a type of sugar. Plants use glucose together with nutrients taken from the soil to make new leaves and other plant parts. The process of photosynthesis produces oxygen, which is released by the plant into the air.
Chlorophyll gives plants their green color because it does not absorb the green wavelengths of white light. That particular light wavelength is reflected from the plant, so it appears green.
-National Geographic Resource Library
For 120 pictures in 2020 topic 43/120, “Forces of nature.”
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Just a little something for the Joint Forces.
The drum rotates and is removable.
I'll show these at BrickCon 2011
This is a prototype.
144617 - Bombardier (Canadair) CC-144 Challenger (Challenger 604) -
Canadian Forces - Royal Canadian Air Force
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 5533 - built in 2002
Eurasian forces had started to invade most of Egypt’s most critical cities, with help of the UAPR, in hopes of wining control of the Suez Canal. In the outskirts of these types of slums, fights and riots happened often, leaving the area almost deserted, allowing Eurasian troops to quietly sneak into the inner districts, in small groups, undetected. After a week or so, the remaining ragtag local militia with the support of NATO and its allies, caught on to Eurasia’s
Now, it was harder to bring forces inside the city, so local Eurasian leader had to make the decision to make the small groups who entered the city, smaller, and more infrequent. While this was annoying, it was only a small inconvenience to Eurasia’s huge war machine. Already, Eurasian forces in the city had started even more riots and day by day, more of Cairo’s population either joined or actively supported the UAPR and the communists. Due to this, NATO and it’s allies were forced to hire and cooperate with the highly trained soldiers of the AKU partnership. While these soldiers had their own motives, it was better for business if NATO kept its control of the Suez Canal. It’s now a common sight to see AKU soldiers and operatives roaming the streets and slums of major Egyptian cities, trying to control the situation at hand.
SLUMS OUTSIDE OF CAIRO; 2:30 pm
A “patrol” of two Eurasian soldiers creep into the city, through the slums, their boots leaving light footprints in the sandy dirt. Little did they know, they would never make it to the meeting point. As they crept by dirty tan and gray houses, yellowed by the desert sun, their communications started buzzing. Over the radio, one of the Eurasian commanding officers in Cairo warns the soldiers that AKU soldiers have been spotted near their location. Nervously, one of them says “roger that, we will be on high alert.” High above them, slowly walking along a rusty catwalk, was a pair of men wearing olive green coats…
SLUMS OUTSIDE CAIRO; 2:36 pm
A gunshot rings out, one the Eurasian soldiers who was leading the small group fall to the floor dead, a bullet piercing his chest. Above him, one of the AKU soldiers lowers his gun and inspects the dead Eurasian, down below.
The remaining Eurasian soldier screams, as his comrade is shot. Raising his AK-12, he attempts to shoot one of the AKU soldiers, but misses in his nervousness. Seconds later, a bullet blasts into his head, and he’s feels no more.
EPILOGUE:
As the AKU soldiers climb down from the rusty catwalk, they walk to the dead Eurasians, making sure their work is done. It is. As they walk back to the temporary AKU base of operations (Cairo), one of them mentions how he cannot wait to grill something when he gets back……
Hope you guys enjoy the build and story! Let me know how I did in the comments!
NJT 4502, in a colorful Armed Forces livery, catches the last few seconds of light as they head through Harrison. This train is headed for the Raritan Valley Line and is likely either a late 5445 or the 5747 positioning itself for a later departure. Raritan Valley Line trains originate at Newark Penn Station and typically use these ALP-45DPs.
I am something like mech/drone mood now so you might exoect some more in the future ;).
Quick build, inspirated by ¡Color! and -TTROOPER. Hope you like it!
Unadorned: adj. Without adornment or embellishment; simple or plain.
Downhill Beach, Benone, Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Whilst trying to capture a plain & clean seascape I noticed these 2 people standing together in the distance so I re-composed this shot to show the large scale of nature against these 2 small distant lovers. They both look so tiny & overwhelmed against nature’s forces
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Water, Ice, Sun, Wind
Well, in previous years I wrote under similar pictures about "once in a decade event" and "very rare circumstances". I guess that I can't use this words any longer as this is the third year in a row that the lighthouse is frozen. Anyway... I still love this icy place.
British forces in Africa.
The Morris LRC is part of the RAF Regiment, with the 2 soldiers at the very front and the one in the morris.
The Lads on the wing of a Hurricane tank buster are in the Desert Air Force, one is the Pilot and the rest keep the Hurricanes flying like the one in the air.
The pic is dark because of it was taken against the sun.
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Die aktuell weltpolitische Lage erfordert immer wieder den Einsatz von Spezial Kräften.
The current global political situation repeatedly requires the deployment of special forces.
It was murder. I hate our weekly shopping trip to Fort William, especially when our B&B is busy. It can take most of the day, nearly three hours taken up driving to and from the shops. But the traffic congestion, camper vans, mobile homes, cars and people fighting over parking spaces and trolleys. It was almost too much for me. Sat there, outside Home Bargains I had often admired the rugged hillock across from the car park.......something about the shape of it, the scattering of old graves, the motionless bodies of sheep slumbering in the sunshine on the hillside. Little did I realise it had been the site of a fairly significant battle in 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, which had gone unmentioned in school history lessons. I left the car and went for a walk under the shadow of Ben Nevis
The Battle of Inverlochy occurred on 2 February 1645, during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, when a Royalist force of Highlanders and Confederate Irish troops under the overall command of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, routed and largely destroyed the pursuing forces of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who had been encamped under the walls of Inverlochy Castle.
After the Covenanter-controlled Scottish Committee of Estates decided to intervene in the English Civil War on the Parliamentarian side, the Royalist party sought to find ways of tying down Covenanter forces in Scotland to prevent them being employed in England. King Charles I had already given a commission to Montrose, a disaffected former signatory of the Covenant, to organise Royalist opposition in Scotland. The project was given impetus when Confederate Ireland, at the instigation of the Earl of Antrim and the Duke of Ormond, aided the Royalists by sending 2,000 experienced troops to Scotland under Antrim's relative Alasdair Mac Colla. The Irish landed at Ardnamurchan on the west coast in early July 1644.
Montrose and a small number of Royalist clansmen linked up with Mac Colla in August. By this time the Committee of Estates had sent armies into the field against them, under the overall command of the experienced general William Baillie. Montrose, however, won surprise victories against government troops at Tippermuir and Aberdeen in September. He then retreated into the Highlands, pursued by a force under the Marquess of Argyll, the head of Clan Campbell and one of the key figures in the Committee of Estates, while Baillie's main army blocked Montrose's path eastward. By late November, the Royalists had added another 1,000 recruits, largely from amongst the men of Clan Donald. Over the winter they conducted a fierce campaign of burning and plundering largely directed against the lands of Argyll himself, and culminating in the sacking of Inveraray. Montrose left Inveraray on 14 January 1645 and headed north. It is believed that he split his army at Glen Etive sending part of it up past Ballachulish while the bulk continued across Rannoch Moor, into Glencoe.
Baillie and Argyll believed that Montrose's force would easily be trapped or dispersed once the difficulty of supplying them in the Highlands in winter took hold. Indeed, by the end of January, Montrose had halted at Kilchummin in the Great Glen, with supplies exhausted and with his forces reduced to less than 2,000 due to sickness and desertions amongst the Highlanders, who were eager to return home with their plunder. At Kilchummin he learned that a large contingent of Northern Levies under the Earl of Seaforth blocked the route northward at Inverness, while Argyll – with a force made up of his own regiment, eight companies of Lowland foot sent by Baillie, and a large number of Clan Campbell levies – was camped to the south of him at Inverlochy. Further south, Baillie and Sir John Urry were assembling further troops.. The Royalists were now effectively trapped.
Montrose decided to face the threat by marching south and attacking Argyll. This course may have been chosen as Argyll's men now threatened the lands of several of Montrose's key supporters. However, he realised that a frontal approach would be quickly detected. What followed was a remarkable flanking march, during winter, across some of the toughest and wildest terrain in the British Isles, partly through snow knee-deep. The Royalists first travelled up the River Tarff to Glen Buck via Culachy, and across the gorge of the Calder Burn to reach the head of the glen, 1000 feet above sea level. They then climbed a further 1000 feet to Carn na Larach, before travelling down Glen Turret and Glen Roy to Keppoch, where the advance guard rested for around three hours in a barn while the main force caught up.
After fording the Spean, and passing through Leanachan Woods, they emerged on the slopes of Ben Nevis above Inverlochy in the early hours of Candlemas Day, 2 February; they had marched around 36 miles in 36 hours.
Montrose's army spent a cold night in the open on the side of Ben Nevis. Argyll was already aware that a small force was operating in the area, having been alerted by pickets driven from Keppoch by the Royalist advance guard. He did not know, however, that he was faced by the entire royal army. Just before dawn on 2 February 1645, Argyll and his commanders were dismayed at the sight that lay before them. As far as they were aware Montrose should still have been 30 miles north.
Argyll did not stay for the battle, having injured his arm in a fall from his horse, and retired to his galley anchored on Loch Linnhe. Command of the government forces was left in the hands of his kinsman Sir Duncan Campbell of Auchinbreck, described by Robert Baillie as "a stout soldier, but a very vicious man". Auchinbreck was an experienced veteran recently recalled from the war in Ireland and regarded as the best soldier in Clan Campbell.
Auchinbreck lined up his forces with the left wing anchored on Inverlochy Castle, which he reinforced with 200 musketeers to protect his left flank. In the centre he placed Argyll's regiment, with an advance guard commanded by Gillespie, son of the Laird of Bingingeahds.On the flanks he put the 8 companies of Lowland militia sent by Baillie, under Roughe and Cockburn, while to the rear was a reserve of Campbell clan levies commanded by the lairds of Lochnell and Rarra, along with two light artillery pieces. Unlike at Tippermuir and Aberdeen, where Montrose had annihilated hastily conscripted and poorly trained militias, many of the troops he faced at Inverlochy were veterans of the wars in England and Ireland. Montrose lined his army up only two lines deep to avoid being outflanked, placing the clansmen, under his personal command, in the centre with the Irish on the flanks, the left being commanded by MacColla and the right by O'Cahan. A small troop of light cavalry, led by Sir Thomas Ogilvie of Airlie, protected the Royalist standard.
The fight did not start straight away and instead skirmishes broke out along the line before dawn. This was possibly because Montrose wanted to harry Argyll's men to ensure they did not slip away, whilst hiding his own presence and the full size of his army. Auchinbreck and his officers thought that they were only fighting one of Montrose's lieutenants and not the man himself, believing he was still far up the glen. Wishart, Montrose's biographer, claimed that they only realised Montrose and his cavalry were present on hearing trumpets used as the attack signal. Just before first light, the Royalists launched their attack.
O'Cahan's men advanced first, followed by Mac Colla. The Irish closed rapidly and violently with the regular troops on both flanks. Montrose, in his letter describing the battle, stated that they went quickly to "push of pike and dint of sword". The Irish routed the two wings, exposing Auchinbreck's centre. Montrose then launched the highlanders at Argyll's regiment and the Campbell clansmen; as the first line was driven back on to the second, the latter panicked and broke.[Some of the Lowland foot forming Auchinbreck's left attempted to retreat into the castle, but were blocked by the Royalist cavalry under Ogilvie and driven to the shore of the loch. Auchinbreck was shot in the thigh while trying to rally his men and died shortly afterwards. The remaining Covenanters briefly rallied around their standard, then broke and ran. The battle rapidly became a "massacre perpetrated by one set of feuding clansmen on another". Those who ran towards the loch were slaughtered, while the remainder attempted to escape into the hills. The small garrison in Inverlochy castle surrendered without a fight.
As was common in the battles of the era, the majority of casualties occurred during the rout of the retreating forces, who were pursued at least eight miles from the battlefield. In later years the graves of many of them were pointed out in Glen Nevis Over 1500 Covenanter troops died, while Montrose lost very few men, reputedly as few as between four and eight, the most notable Royalist casualty being Sir Thomas Ogilvie who was hit by a stray bullet and died several days later. Many gentry and tacksmen serving under Argyll were killed, including John Campbell of Lochnell, Colin MacDougal of Rarra, and others. The remaining officers were all captured, although some, such as Cockburn, were shortly released on parole on the promise that they did not take up arms against the Royalists.
On 11 February the Parliament of Scotland found Montrose and 19 of his main followers, including Mac Colla and Graham of Inchbrackie, guilty of high treason in their absence. The following day Argyll himself appeared before Parliament, with his arm in a sling, dismissing the loss as a minor setback. Robert Baillie afterwards wrote that "this disaster did extremely amaze us. I verily think that had Montrose come presently from that battle he should have had no opposition in the Highlands [...] scarce till he had come to Edinburgh. But God in mercy put other thoughts in his heart".
Montrose was able to use this conflict to rally Clan Donald against Clan Campbell. In many respects, the Battle of Inverlochy was as much part of the clan war between these two deadly enemies and their allies as it was part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and that is how it was portrayed in Gaelic folklore. After the battle MacDonalds pursued fleeing Campbells up the Lairig Mhor, which is now part of the West Highland Way, killing those they caught. About 12 km from the battle field they stopped and marked the spot by erecting a stone which came to be known as Clach nan Caimbeulach or the Campbell's Stone. Today the place is marked by a rough cairn, or pile of stones
The victory also secured the cooperation in Montrose's campaign of the Marquess of Huntly, whose Clan Gordon levies made him one of the most powerful nobles in Scotland.
Thanks to Wikipedia
Shot on a cold day at Pearl Bay looking out to Pittwater near Sydney. i deliberately processed this image quickly to avoid over thinking and over processing which can dog me sometimes. I should add that I have used very minimal sharpening another previous processing failing of mine until recently. See what you all think?.
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Military and Family members participating in Armed Forces Day / Army Birthday Celebration Parade.... Lawton, OK
If there's even a hint of rain on the horizon, these slot canyons should be avoided at all costs. The same forces that chisels the stone walls can quickly turn into a human blender. Even if it rains miles away, the water will collectively travel to the lowest point and turn into a freight train carrying a load of debris through these narrow passageways. Best to stay out of itâs path and enjoy the scenery in itâs wake.
Pour tout vous avouer je sors une image en N&B tous les 2/3 ans ...
Ce jour là en Islande, la pluie tombait sur la plage de sable noir de Vik et il n'y avait aucune lumière.
Les mouvements d'eau étaient très jolis et le paysage malgré la pluie magnifique, je trouve donc que le N&B se prêtait vraiment bien à la situation.
J'attends vos avis :).
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Markings: WWII United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) 44-72218, 'Big Beautiful Doll', 'Col J D Landers'
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Rolls-Royce/Packard V-1650-7 (Merlin 66) 27.04-litre liquid-cooled supercharged V12, 1,490-hp
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Gone to IWM Duxford
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The Canadian Forces Snowbirds demonstration squadron perform a low show at CFB Borden.
I had a bit of foresight and a bit of luck in getting this photo, as I was in the perfect spot to try this composition knowing that the team would do a couple overhead passes.
I think the solo curling out on the left hand side just adds a bit more to the photo, filling in what would otherwise be empty space.