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Madras War Cemetery is a war cemetery and a memorial in Nandambakkam, Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India, created to receive Second World War graves from many civil and cantonment cemeteries in the south and east of India where their permanent maintenance could not be assured.The cemetery is spread over an area of 2.75 acres[1] and contains 856 Commonwealth burials of the Second World War. It was established in 1952 by the Imperial War Graves Commission, now known as the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), to pay tribute to the men and women of the Commonwealth nations who sacrificed their lives in World War II.
The Ironbridge War Memorial is located close to the famous Iron bridge and features a life size sculpture of a soldier in full marching order and is the work of Arthur George Walker .
Civil War BOW #41 - Red, White and Blue Quilt. You have to turn your head to the right to view - it will be on point in the quilt!
The nine-ship lift was a nine-helicopter-strong formation which transported around 50 men to the field from fire support bases. Here, the first five Hueys in a nine-ship lift have just dropped members of a combat infantry unit near Dau Tieng. Names and date unknown.
Soldier Fritz Petschulat from Tylsit, born in 1898. In the years 1917-1918 he fought at the front as an artilleryman in Fuß-AB 73. In the years 1919-1921 he was a member of Grenzschutz Ost and was active in the Sichertheitspolizei. In 1921 he entered the regular police service.
The War Memorial and the extension of the Art Gallery, including the Cowdray Hall and Museum, were opened by King George V and Queen Mary on 29th September 1925. These were erected at a cost of £80,000, with the cost of the War Memorial being raised by public subscription. The War Memorial is a Cenotaph, in the form of a Memorial Court or Hall of Remembrance and is "consecrated to the memory of those 5000 of the City and District who gave their lives on land and sea 'that we might live'".
The shrine is of white and grey marble in a niche in the north wall of the Memorial Court, directly opposite the entrance. It takes the form of a table on which is placed the Roll of Honour, printed on vellum, within glass. The table is supported by trusses decorated in Renaissance style. On either side are the Union Jack and White Ensign, representing Army and Navy, and in the centre is a laurel wreath in gilt bronze. The circular balcony or gallery, with a graceful balustrade, grey marble coping and ornate mouldings, which encircles the Court and leads to various picture galleries, one of which can be seen through the doorway.
In a peaceful field at Kithurst Hill, above Storrington, Sussex, lie the remains of a WW2 Churchill tank. Abandoned after breaking down, it was later used by Canadian troops as target practice. For a fuller story, see the interesting
I've witnessed quite a few "turf wars" in the bird world. Usually it's one on one, like a Canada Goose drake defending his territory against an interloper. But the scene offshore in Lake Erie was amazing!
There were 200-300 migrating Tundra Swans about 150 yards offshore, and they were very noisy. There were many swans in small groups (family groups ?). It was starting to get a little crowded, but instead of spreading out (Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, is a very large lake), they challenged each other loudly. This picture shows one group wailing at a second group (not shown).
This picture is a crop. I did that for two reasons: 1) since this was taken from 150 yards away, showing both groups of swans would have included a lot of other swans, all of which would be lacking detail; and 2) I thought this was a cool picture, the way each swan's orientation was cocked a little further forward, almost like stages in a time lapse.
Detail of the cross on the war memorial, Bayford, Hertfordshire, 27 September 2015.
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Capt. Donald R. Brown of Annapolis, Md., advisor to the 2nd Battalion of the 46th Vietnamese regiment, dashes from his helicopter to the cover of a rice paddy dike during an attack on Viet Cong in an area 15 miles west of Saigon on April 4, 1965 during the Vietnam War. Brown's counterpart, Capt. Di, commander of the unit, rushes away in background with his radioman. The Vietnamese suffered 12 casualties before the field was taken. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
This is a war memorial in Rougemont Gardens in Exeter, Devon. A nice little park behind Exeter Central Train Station. I only came up here as I’d just missed my train home and had to hang around for an hour for the next one, so probably would never have seen this fine memorial.
This is taken with my new Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens. I must admit I’m loving this lens. Getting close in and getting these types of angles just wasn’t possible with my previous 18-55 kit lens.
I went for an apocalyptic look to this shot, hence the over dramatic sky and slightly washed out look!
Post Processing
3 x Raws in Photomatix
Tonal Contrast filter in Color Efex Pro
DeNoised the sky only and High Pass sharpening in the statue only
Though technicially this is a WIP, I'll be finishing the interiors as time permits as we near April, May, & June.
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Various Small Scale Star Wars - Snowspeeders
Back Row: Hasbro Star Wars Command, Galoob DieCast, Hasbro Titianium, & Mattel - Rebel Snowspeeder
Front Row: Kenner DieCast & Revell - Mini-Snaptite Model Kit
War-Re-Taw
There are no roses in this land
where birds screech and jeer
and spiders lurk in boots.
There is nothing but horizon
and the crunch of stones,
yet he thinks to scratch
our livings from this scatter
of ribcaged, craze-eyed sheep.
He strains to build our home
out of everything that’s strange;
I toil faithless, vacant, barely sane.
A wattlebird flaps from it,
cackling: chest-high, bracts
red as petals. The flower
is fist-thick, a sanguine clump
of spider-palps. My half-blunt
knife makes thick work
of its browning stem; sweat
pricks my face, and I hack
as though the work will turn
her. I clamber, bearing
the inflorescence. Beetles
crawl from it. Stones clatter.
My heart takes a parching.
He’s on the threshold,
proffering this thing
the stone fostered,
his face all burns
and dust and faint
undying hope.
My eyes blur.
There are no
roses. A magpie
melts his voice,
begins at last
to sing.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2014. Picture: NPM, Volume 2. War-re-taw was the rendering of Waratah (Telopea speciosissima) used by “the most intelligent residents in New South Wales…as better according with the pronunciation of the natives.” Widely recognised, as the NPM already affirmed, as “the most superb flower of New South Wales”, the Waratah has a large, red inflorescence, and grows best in stony soil.
Serhiy Khodor, owner of the Yuzepivka farm, applies fertilizer to his winter barley crop on Sunday, April 17, 2022 in Steniatyn, Ukraine.
IMF Photo/Brendan Hoffman
17 April 2022
Steniatyn, Ukraine
Photo ref: UKRAINE_56.jpg
Star Wars Cake and R2D2 sugar cookies. Darth Vader and R2D2 figurines were molded out of rice krispies treats and Yoda only a combination of fondant and gumpaste
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Hasbro - Extra Star Wars Vader, Anakin & Emperor Figures
Making space and I decided to pack away my collection of extra Vader, Anakin, and Emperor figures. I've been trying to NOT buy more Vader and Anakin figures for years.
World War II nurses holding hands, from a mostly uncaptioned photo album. Possibly Africa, c. 1943. Photo on Flickr by gbaku/John Atherton (CC BY SA) www.flickr.com/photos/gbaku/4019920791/
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After test driving Nik HDR Efex Pro for a while and the trial stopped working, I discovered Photomatix has an upgrade available to V4 and it's free for current V3 users! Well done HDRSoft, really good service!
I thought let me process a picture of Scotland, just took a random picture I would put through Photomatix, and to be honest a first sight it works the same, a little bit faster, user settings have a preview now, ghost reduction is semi manual or automatic (took the bracketed shots twice through the process, this is through the semi manual which is better (marginally noticable on the arrows on the road on the full resolution files)
Conclusion: I'm going to stick with Photomatix for a while
The picture itself: On the road to Eilean Donan castle the weather was this all day, which is kind of nice, gives nice dramatic skies and lots of color in HDR shots. This is from a war memorial next to the main road where I shot some graveyard pictures and this war memorial is for the memory of the fallen heroes during WWI
On the left you can see the one of the five sisters of Kintail (mountain on the left = 'sgurr na maroich'), got some nice panorama still lying around...
Location:
Loch Duich
This image is also geotagged
Technical stuff:
Exposure: 1/30 sec at f/11 at -1 EV (basic shot, other shots are at -3EV and +1EV)
Taken with: Nikon D90 and 10-20 mm f/4-5.6 at 11
HDR processed in Photomatix 4
Noise reduction in Nik Dfine (also testdriving this, getting to get it the way I like, is better than Lightroom because of the selective nature you can apply, only noise reduction on the gray color range, the rest was not affected)
A little bit of sharpening in Lightroom
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