Armed Forces Day UK
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I found this one on my front door. I bit scary as it is highly poisonous. I did manage to move it away from the house. This one is about 4 inches long (10cm). it usually stands like that to prepare to attack
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In a small but very colourful Buddhist temple , called Leong San See ( Dragon Mountain ), in Singapore , I found this beautiful golden Buddha in a side shrine , not situated in the central part of the temple .Known as the 1000 armed Buddha ( Avolokiteshvara ) , he is renowned for benevolent compassion.
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Hundreds of military guards descended into DC one evening, marched by peaceful protesters and into the police enclosures around the White House. Surreal, chilling and shocking. What was the military doing in the city?
She is contemplating...but what are the thoughts that have passed through her head? Those are the secrets contained within the flesh.
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this guy was inside the house and I had to scare it out. this is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world
Armed Forces Day Observed on the third Saturday every May, this is a day dedicated to paying tribute to those currently serving in the U.S. Armed Forces.
I have wonderful creative and fun neighbors down the street. I'm glad to have been their realtor. They are a delight to have nearby.
Canadian Armed Forces De Havilland(Canada) CC-115 Buffalo '115463' making a tactical STOL approach to RAF Greenham Common during her display at the 1981 International Air Tattoo
Note the manned dayglo marker - possibly to do with the event photography coverage or the flying display orientation
The Buffalo was a much improved version of their earlier and highly successful Caribou - one of many capable STOL (Short Take-Off and landing) designs made by DHC
Based in Europe in support of Canada's NATO commitment, the Buffalo's were superseded by the CC-132 (Dash-7) and later, the CC-142 (Dash-8) but all left for home when the Canadian's eventually pulled their contribution back to mainland Canada after the 'Iron Curtain' came down
Copy Photo from a poorly exposed Kodak 35mm Transparency
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With a prominent 'Aircraft Armed' sign in place, US Air Force 'Special Ops' Lockheed MC-130J Commando II 09-5713 awaits her next tasking on the SOG ramp at homebase RAF Mildenhall
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Took this detailed shot of HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) coming into harbour with planes on deck. In the middle of the photo the left hand F35 is a UK plane and the right hand one a US Marines plane (a second US plane is further forward). Below and in front is one of three Phalanx guns (with cover on) for close protection against missiles and planes. In front of the Phalanx is an armed sailor with rifle next to a machine gun also ready for action. Taking no chances even entering her home port!
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Gimsøya, Lofoten, Norway
December 2025
Camera: Nikon FM2n
Film/Film Format: 35mm film Ilford HP5 Plus 400, Push 2
Lens: Nikkor (pancake) 50mm f/1.8 AI-s
Scanner: Noritsu scanner, 16-base (from a local lab in Singapore)
"Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!’
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
‘Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him,
But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me,
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father’s saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.’"
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
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Wikipedia: The Northrop P-61 Black Widow is a twin-engine United States Army Air Forces fighter aircraft of World War II. It was the first operational U.S. warplane designed specifically as a night fighter.
Named for the North American spider Latrodectus mactans, it was an all-metal, twin-engine, twin-boom design armed with four forward-firing 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano M2 autocannon in the lower fuselage, and four .50 in (12.7 mm) M2 Browning machine guns in a dorsal gun turret. Developed during the war, the first test flight was made on 26 May 1942, with the first production aircraft rolling off the assembly line in October 1943.
Although not produced in the large numbers of its contemporaries, the Black Widow was operated effectively as a night fighter by United States Army Air Forces squadrons in the European Theater, Pacific Theater, China Burma India Theater, and Mediterranean Theater during World War II.
On the night of 14 August 1945, a P-61B of the 548th Night Fighter Squadron named Lady in the Dark was unofficially credited with the last Allied air victory before VJ Day.
Taken in an area of mid Wales known to photographers and aircrew as the Mach Loop (formally Low Flying Area 7, or simply LFA7).
Turkana women in Nadapal along Kenya-Sudan border armed with guns in fear of attacks by Toposa Militia group from Southern Sudan, Toposa Militia recently launched attacks on Turkana community and raided villages taking away their livestock the group also attacked Kenyan forces in a move to claim ownership of water spot at Nadapal border inside Kenyan territory.
Black Rhino bull (Diceros bicornis) - Serengeti, Tanzania
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It's always a great privilege to see these critically endangered animals in their natural habitat. This chap had evidently been in the wars, sporting a badly wounded right eye and a gash to the neck; injuries most likely acquired in a clash with another rhino.
National Memorial Arboretum . Staffordshire.
The service men and women of the British Armed Forces ,who have been killed on duty or terrorism after the Second World War, are remembered here.
No where else records 16,000 names of those fallen. Names are on the walls in date order.
We found Gareth W. Poole, Welsh Guards, our friend’s son died 1982 FALKLANDS, ON SIR GALAHAD.
The bronze sculptures are of loss and sacrifice.
Shown in next photos.