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During the Orionids major meteor shower this year, I photographed this meteor exploding as it entered Earth's atmosphere. You'll notice an interesting shift in color as the meteor entered the atmosphere (right to left), then the explosion near the far left. Many factors influence the colors, including the chemical makeup of the meteor as well as its speed. Generally, the green was the magnesium that was being burnt off and the yellow and orange were likely Iron and Sodium.
Orionids major meteor shower, 2025.
Photo # K08_5208c.
Note on reverse: "Sprengtrichter mit Drahtverhau
unsere Stellung wo ich bin." - "Explosion crater with wire entanglements. Our position, where I am."
No place, date or unit is mentioned. As the soldiers are armed with old Gewehr 88 rifles, I would assume that they are Landsturm. Two soldiers are holding family pictures.
Another day of reprieve from bokeh sessions!
I noticed this on the corn flowers while taking the picture of yesterday's upload of the bee. As I was changing positions to shoot that critter, the patterns on top of the flower kept changing. Like an optical illusion. If you stare long enough at the center you'll know what I mean. Alternatively if you have a mouse with a scroll button, view on large and scroll up and down rapidly! Kinda funky.
Apologies for the dramatic, drastic (read blinding!) colors, but I kinda wanted to produce a color bursty image compared to yesterday's mellow tones one.
Happy Friday folks!
The modern aerial googlemaps view includes an overlay of the German defenses in red, as best as I can interpret them from 100 year old aerial photos and trench maps. The path and final resting place of Skinner's tank is annotated in blue.
Some details in the German defenses are simplified to scale, or approximated due to lack of clarity in the aerial photos. Accounts and drawings describe periodic narrow zig-zag gaps passing completely through the barbed wire barriers, presumably left to enable German scouting, maintenance and counter attack, which are omitted here. There were also accounts of tunnels and covered trenches which aren't shown. The main road south into Bullecourt and passing through the wire was no doubt mined, plus it also had a massive crater severing it - the result of a buried bomb detonated by the Germans, just ahead of the wire.
Clearly in light of all the photographic evidence of tank 796, the various unquestioned allied accounts of its exploits published in the past 100 years fall short on accuracy. Skinner's tank most definitely hadn't managed to cruise the village, let alone enter Bullecourt and the tank isn't ditched inside a large crater. Indeed, since 1925 the Germans' own divisional account and map never indicated tanks entered Bullecourt on April 11, 1917.
According to C.E.W. Bean and the 48th Battalion histories, the tank was however successful in suppressing the German MGs it was sent against. Furthermore, its plausible Lt Skinner may have incorrectly believed amidst the explosions, smoke and chaos that his tank had penetrated the edge of the village, given the first ruins were just beyond the trench to his forward starboard side. His tank is also stopped before what, at close quarters, would appear to be an enormous crater, exactly as his C.O. Major Watson's account describes - in fact one of several large pock marked pits dug by the Germans.
As is so often the way with conflicting stories, the truth ends up laying somewhere in between... in this case betwixt the barbed wire and trenches.
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Below are some links to the very useful Landships website, including a narrative and map, which hopefully will be updated in due course:
Bullecourt Map:
sites.google.com/site/landships/home/narratives/1917/batt...
Narrative:
sites.google.com/site/landships/home/narratives/1917/batt...
Tank Lists by serial number:
Dramatic chemtrail clouds look like explosion in the sky. Notice the straight-line chemtrail in right sector of photo exiting a cloud at a 45 degree angle.
Pilots often "connect" fake clouds or real clouds to other clouds using this technique.
The process appears to encourage dispersion of the chemtrail fake cloud into nearby clouds, eventually creating fake clouds all over the sky.
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At 7.15am on Tuesday 2 November 2010, police were called to the Silver Street area of Irlam following reports of an explosion.
Officers attended and discovered that at least three houses have been damaged.
Silver Street, Merlin Road, Morillion Road, Cutnook Lane and a number of other routes in the area are closed off while police and the other emergency services work at the scene.
For information about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
¡Ojalá todas las explosiones fueran como ésta, llena de luz y color! ... para que no tengamos que lamentar mas víctimas del terrorismo.
11 de Marzo - Atocha
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