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Photograph taken at 11:03am at an altitude of Seventeen metres, on Friday 27th September 2014 off the West Coast Road 14, on the shoreline of French Beach Provincial Park.
The park is a Fifty nine Hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada. Located on Vancouver Island, between Sooke and River Jordan, the park has spectacular views of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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oil painting on canvas, 24x24, this painting was exhibited last year but always felt like a sketch. More paint added today and it is feeling more like a wrap. Shows coming up, so I'm rethinking my inventory.
Threw together this vignette for the figs I was experimenting with from the new Pharoah's Quest lineup.
Leica M3
Leitz Summitar 50mm f/2
Leitz Yellow filter
Kodak TriX
Rodnal semi stand development
Dslr digitized & cc photoshop
What’s left of the popular Crashboat beach pier after fury hurricane Maria.
French special forces take position in the surroundings of the Splendid hotel following an attack by Al-Qaeda linked gunmen on January 16, 2016 in Ouagadougou. .Burkina Faso troops supported by French special forces were battling Al-Qaeda linked gunmen in the early hours of January 16 in a Ouagadougou hotel where at least 23 people have been killed. At least 23 people from 18 countries were killed in a jihadist attack that struck the heart of the capital of Burkina Faso, a security source told AFP, adding that the toll could yet rise.
Taken From Boston Castle On Rotherham Armed Forces Day
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Photograph copyright: DB Photography
Once basic training is completed, Special Forces Donkeys learn the more complicated arts of the battle field. Parachuting and hoof to hoof combat are the obvious ones, but SFD's are also trained to play dead to avoid detection.
A U.S. Special Forces Green Beret Soldier, assigned to 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Operational Detachment-A, participates in a close quarter combat scenario during Integrated Training Exercise 2-16 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., Feb. 10, 2016. MCAGCC conducts relevant live-fire combined arms, urban operations, and joint/coalition level integration training that promote operational forces' readiness. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech Sgt. Efren Lopez/Released)
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Weapons from left to right: mini-rocket launcher, anti-personnel machine gun, sniper rifle, vibro blade, anti-mech shotgun, flame thrower, underslung vibro blade, one-shot RPG.
Interesting that in a span of about three years, it seems like some disease has fallen onto some of the trees here. Three years ago, the pine on the right and the aspens at the top middle and on the left (out of view of this photo) were quite healthy. Now, the pine seems to only have some needles at the top and the aspens look like they are dead.
Today in France 12 people were murdered all for the sake of a cartoon. For God's sake it was just a bloody picture.
What senseless, cowardly murder. What religion is it that advocates murder? There is none. What kind of fool thinks you can stop a world of people from expressing themselves, communicating with others, sharing a laugh together by shooting a few?
Through their actions today a few misguided individuals insult their religion and make a mockery of what they believe in, in a far more concrete way than any cartoon could have done whilst at the same time forcing the whole civilised world of free thinking people to turn against them. It's what we call an 'Own Goal'.
Even the Islamic prophet Muhammad is quoted as saying "The ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr"
In this case the cartoonists with their pens are the scholars, and we all know the terrorists think they are martyrs. What sick losers they are!
"Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms.
This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today.
I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.
"Respect for religion" has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion."
Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect." Salman Rushdie
See: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2901459/jesuisCharlie-wo... For me, the Dutch cartoonist sums it up best!
Pictured are members of LEGO US Special Ops groups including Green Berets, Navy Seals and an Intelligence Agency Officer operating in a classified location in the Middle East.
From left to right:
- "5th Ace" (Intelligence Agency Field Officer)
- "Mouse" (Green Beret)
- "Krieger" (Green Beret with an aversion to shaving)
- "God" (very senior Green Beret)
- "Lincoln" - Navy Seal
Weapons and Gear by ModernBrickWarfare.com
The brand-new Museum of the Vietnamese Armed Forces is a stunning new building on a huge site about 5 km west of Hanoi city centre. I hired a taxi for the day for around US$50 to do this and the Airforce and B-52 Victory museums, as there is currently no public transport option to reach all three.
Currently (April 2025) only the ground floor is open. There will be three more floors of display galleries above and a top-floor restaurant. Right now, tourist facilities are limited to a small cafe at the gate and no shop! However, the ground floor galleries are simply superb. The left side is devoted to Vietnam's military history from the 10th Century up to the French invasion in 1850 and includes weapons from 950AD onwards.
The right hand side of the building covers the two Indochina wars - against the French in the 1950s and the Americans in the 1970s. It is just a great museum and covers the conflicts in detail with English translations or subtitles throughout.
Outside are the larger aircraft exhibits which are also really good, but there is plenty of room for more to be added. I spotted an ex-Vietnam Airlines Ilyushin IL-18 in store at the airport that could easily be moved here to join their IL-14. The panes are a mix of captured USA and Soviet-supplied fighters and transports - my favourite is the Antonov AN-26 which was apparently converted to a bomber role!
Well here it is, the full compilation of my newest faction, the Syndicate Armed Alliance.
Specializing in many combat roles ranging from close air support to heavy artillery, the SAA are tough, unrelenting, and damn good looking with their tan+grey camo scheme.
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I hope you guys enjoyed my new faction! It was actually quite fun to post a part of it day by day.
More to come soon!
.. mein Kollege sagt, dass es in Amerika Spezial Einheiten gäbe, die nur aus Frauen bestehen würden 😳 .. hm .. interessant .. 😎👍
.. my colleague says that there are special units in America that consist only of women 😳 .. hmm .. interesting .. 😎👍
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk departing from the Parade Field during Armed Forces Day in 2009
Parade Field
Cantigny Park
Wheaton, Illinois
41.853755, -88.157032
May 18, 2009
The Big Red One (First Division) came to Cantigny Park with helicopters and armor for Armed Forces Day.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Infantry_Division_(United_States)
This is a redux of this picture
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Conversion to monochrome, extreme fiddling with tones.
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