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King's Park War Memorial - this is an old shot but I quite like the effect after playing around with PS :)
Tug O' War - Lomond Highland Games 2015 Competitions are held at many Highland Games throughout Scotland from May to September each year.
Here are the Rules as laid down by the Scottish Games Association:
1. Team to consist of five or eight members and one coach
2. Raised heels up to a maximum of ¼ inch (7mm) allowed on footwear, and footwear to be inspected prior to start of competition
3. Overall pull to be 12 feet and winner of each tie to be decided by best of three pulls
4. No hand over hand pulling allowed. Team members must go back with rope when pulling.
5. Anchorman to loop rope round one shoulder to secure rope as per style used at present. No knot is permitted on the rope end.
6. All team members to remain on their feet at all times, no hands are persistently allowed on the ground apart from the anchorman who is permitted to use one hand on the ground.
7. Draw for ties to take place prior to start of competition. Succeeding rounds to be redrawn at judges discretion.
8. Teams through coaches will be reminded of the rules prior to commencement of competition. Only coaches can consult with the judge and judges decision is final.
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Civil War Earthworks
The gentle mounds that meander through Spotsylvania Court House battlefield once looked like the reconstructed earthwork in front of you. The armies built more than 12 miles of trenches here, using whatever tools they could find. Lee’s last line, extending off to your right and left, was completed May 12, while fighting ranged at the Bloody Angle, a mile ahead of you. You can see original works on either side of the reconstruction.
Spotsylvania’s earthworks illustrate the changing nature of the Civil War. By 1864 the tactics of maneuver and open-field fighting had given way to trench warfare. Whenever soldiers took position, they started digging. Shielded by earthworks, battle lines moved closer together; soldiers toiled under fire for days on end; attacks became more costly. The war became a daunting struggle to survive not just bullets but stress and exhaustion too.
Do not walk on the earthworks!
This reconstruction replaces original works obliterated by a road in the 1930s. The earthworks on either side are original and fragile.
Over the years the earthworks eroded, filling the ditch and creating the gentle mounds that you see today.
French prisoners with their German guards. The French man on the left is the one who seems the most unhappy. The guards are wearing makeshift armbands. Any ideas why?
South Vietnam - Help begins at the scene of the fighting. U.S. Marine Corps Private 1st Class James E. Herubin is helped to cover by a buddy after being struck in the shin by a sniper's round during combat. [Relief of sick and wounded.] [Soldiers.] [Vietnam War]
07/22/1967; USN K-0039890; by JOC E.J. Filtz
Navy Medicine Historical Files Collection - Subject series - Vietnam - Ground evacuation
09-7975-026
Print color 8X10
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.
These images come from a lavishly illustrated book published by H. Virtue and Co in 1900 which is a summary of the progress of the Boer War while it was still being fought. I will load up more images as I go as there are so many names and
images that I am sure would be of value to those interested in this peiod of history
Modern take on the traditional large feathered headdress in which so many North American Indian men are portrayed, called a "war bonnet. by non-Indians. I have no idea how anyone could conduct combat wearing this heavy, elaborately festooned head piece I would guess such regalia was ceremonial, perhaps associated with success at war.
The original versions used eagle feathers, to imbue the wearer with the power of the magnificent birds. Although tribal members are allowed to possess eagle (bald and golden) feathers under specific limitations, it is illegal for anyone in the general public to collect and hold eagle feathers. Here's a good summary of the how and why: www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/PossessionOfEag...
47th Annual Montana State University American Indian Council Powwow, Bozeman, Montana, March 31-April 1, 2023
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)
South African War Memorial
Ottawa, Ontario
www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/national-inv...
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.