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CN 522 has finished its work at Nova Grain and is about to head back to Southwark Yard as a crewmember flags the Rue Gaudette crossing. Power is CN 9523 and CN 9410.
Uiteraard wapperden de Nederlandse vlaggen overal tijdens Bevrijdingsdag 2018, maar op de boulevard van Katwijk hing ook de IJslandse vlag.
Katwijk aan Zee, Nederland
Naturally, the Dutch flags fluttered everywhere during Liberation Day 2018, but on the boulevard of Katwijk also hung the Icelandic flag.
Katwijk aan Zee, The Netherlands
Do you know what each of these flags represent? At the top of the Rock of Gibraltar they have three flags flying. The Union Jack is in the middle, as Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the United Kingdom. The flag on the right is the flag of Gibraltar while the flag on the left is the flag of the European Union. Gibraltar has a complicated history, as this small peninsula, has been occupied by the Moors, the Spanish and British.
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Why do I get that uplifting feeling when flags are fluttering in the wind?
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LEGO Flags of the World. How many do you recognize?
At some point in 2006 I built the Canadian flag. A little while later I built the Swiss flag. Then I suddenly found myself on a flag building bender.
I ended up with 28 in total. I was going to display them with my world map at Brickfest 2006, but since I forgot the map at home, I never bothered taking them out of the car.
Singapore Air Force F-16 94-270 passes Sunrise Mountain on its way back to Nellis after a Red Flag 22-2 sortie.
Aircraft: Republic of Singapore Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C AF 94-270/LF.
Location: Gate 2, Speedway, Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
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At Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom on Saturday 3rd June 2023.
About the photograph.
I was attending a speed hill climbing motorsport event, during a hot sunny day, at the Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb in the village of Shelsely Walsh in Worcestershire. I was there to take photos of the of the event.
They had four different nation flags of the British Isles on flagpoles alongside the track.
NOTE: British Isles is different from British Islands. British Islands refer to England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the small islands like Jersey, Guernsey, and Isle of Man, all together. Whereabouts British Isles is same as British Islands, but includes the Republic of Ireland.
Here, I took a series of photographs of the flag of Ireland, flying in the wind, along with the flags of England, Scotland, and Wales.
I’m not sure those flags are of official sizes and specifications, but still, it was a chance for me to take some shots of the flags.
By this time, I had already taken photos of the Union Flag, the Wales flag, and the American Stars and Strips from somewhere else. I thought to grab a chance to take photo of flags belonging to Scotland and Ireland that were flying at the grounds.
For details about the flag of Ireland, see About the overall subject.
About the overall subject.
About the flag.
This is the national flag for the Republic of Ireland. In the Irish language: bratach na hÉireann.
It is frequently referred in Ireland as the tricolour (an tridhathach).
The flag is a vertical tricolour of green, white, and orange bands of equal width, in the proportion of 1:2. That mean an aspect ratio where the width (2) is twice the size of the height (1).
Note: It is important to remember that the colour order from left to right, is green, white, and orange. Not to be confused with the flag of Ivory Coast which is very similar but theirs is in the order of orange, white, and green.
The two flags can often be confused, specially when using the reverse side of the flags.
The flag of Ireland had been adopted in 1922, however like with any other national flags all around the world, the history of the Irish tricolour can date back further from the date of adoption.
According to various history, it was presented as a gift by a small group of French women sympathetic to the Irish nationalism. The colours were intended to symbolise the hoped-for union between the Roman Catholics (green colour) and Protestants (white colour). The white in the middle signifies a lasting truce between the two. It was also based on the French tricolour.
The exact colours, like with any other flags in history, were never actually specified until modern times. Today, the Irish government, the Department of the Taoiseach is responsibility for the flag design and use, had set the actual colours which was in use since 2001.
About Shelsley Walsh.
Shelsley Walsh is a motorsports speed hill climb track in Worcestershire, and organised by the Midland Automobile Club (MAC).
It is one of the oldest motorsports event, having started in 1905, and held events every year, except for the two World Wars.
It is also a notably steep course by today’s hill climb standards, rising 328ft / 100m over its 1000 yards / 914 metres length.
The track and course do not belong to MAC, it is leased from the local landowner. The original lease ran for 99 years, and in 2005, a new lease was signed for the next 99 years.
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Every year for Memorial Day, a local bank and our mall display a field of flags. I admire their show of respect for the sacrifice each and every member of the United States military makes for our country each day. I was lucky enough to capture a great shot of Old Glory waving in the sunshine.
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At the Wartime in the Vale 2025 event. Ashdown Camp, at Ashdown Farm, off Badsey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Sunday 22nd of June 2025.
About the photograph.
I dabble in vexillology, not really a serious interest, just a bit of passing interest in the study of flags.
I was attending a military vehicles re-enactment event when I saw this flag flying at one the camps, so I took a series of shots using high continuous frame rate mode.
This is the national flag of Sweden.
It is consisted of a yellow or gold cross in the shape of a Nordic cross, on a light blue field.
A Nordic cross is a horizontal and vertical cross on a rectangular field, but the vertical cross is slightly shifted to the left, closer to the flag pole or mast. It is commonly found on many different national flags of various Nordic countries.
The proportion of the flag is a ratio of 5:8 meaning 5 units of height by 8 units of width.
Folklore had it that the flag of Sweden dates back to the 12th century when King Eric IX used a golden cross on a blue background as a banner. Another story tells that the flag was created during the reign of King Charles VIII in 1442. There were a few other stories of how the flag was created.
The current form of the Swedish flag started around 1905, and was formally adopted on the 22nd June 1906.
About the event.
Wartime in the Vale is an annual re-enactment event, held at the former Second World War camp, next to the town of Evesham, during the summer. The event is organised by the Military Vehicle Trust – South Midlands Area.
The event is held during the weekend, and believed to have at least more than 500 military vehicles of various eras, but mostly of First and Second World Wars, on display as well as re-enactment events in the main arena, including blank firing of weapons. They even have a flypast over the area.
The Ashdown Camp is a 40 acres site, with some old WWII era buildings, mainly huts, located near the Ashdown Farm, just to the east of Evesham.
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Looking back 100 years.
Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont Hamel, France.
During the First World War, Newfoundland was a largely rural Dominion of the British Empire with a population of 240,000, and not yet part of Canada. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 led the Government of Newfoundland to recruit a force for service with the British Army. Even though the island had not possessed any formal military organization since 1870, enough men soon volunteered that an entire battalion was formed, and later maintained throughout the war. The regiment trained at various locations in the United Kingdom and increased from an initial contingent of 500 men to full battalion strength of 1,000 men, before being deployed.
01/07/1916 The Somme.
At 8:45 a.m. the Newfoundland Regiment and 1st Battalion of the Essex Regiment received orders to move forward. The Newfoundland Regiment was situated at St. John's Road, a support trench 250 yards (230 m) behind the British forward line and out of sight of the enemy. Movement forward through the communication trenches was not possible because they were congested with dead and wounded men and under shell fire.
Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Lovell Hadow, the battalion commander, decided to move immediately into attack formation and advance across the surface, which involved first navigating through the British barbed wire defences. As they breasted the skyline behind the British first line, they were effectively the only troops moving on the battlefield and clearly visible to the German defenders.
Subjected to the full force of the 119th (Reserve) Infantry Regiment, most of the Newfoundland Regiment who had started forward were dead, dying or wounded within 15 to 20 minutes of leaving St. John's Road trench. Most reached no further than the Danger Tree, a skeleton of a tree that lay in No Man's Land that was being utilized as a landmark.
So far as can be ascertained, 22 officers and 758 other ranks were directly involved in the advance. Of these, all the officers and slightly under 658 other ranks became casualties. Of the 780 men who went forward only about 110 survived unscathed, of whom only 68 were available for roll call the following day. For all intents and purposes the Newfoundland Regiment had been wiped out, the unit as a whole having suffered a casualty rate of approximately 80%. The only unit to suffer greater casualties during the attack was the 10th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, attacking west of Fricourt village.
I didn't know whether to post this. Tried several times and changed my mind. I went online and researched flag etiquette. This image is not intended to be disrespectful to the American Flag. I found this little flag washed up on my favourite beach after a recent storm. It is my most interesting beach find yet. We live 20 miles from Washington State, across the Juan de Fuca Strait. I gazed at this flag for awhile and wondered what story it could tell. Where did it originate? How far did it come? After this shot I rescued it and it now occupies a place in my photo room.
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At Mount Rushmore the entry has all the state flags on the pathway to the amphitheater. My state flag is at the top left of this photo and the people traveling with us is on the top right.
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Testing a manual Nikkor 50 mm ƒ1:1.2 on my Nikon Df, post processed in Lightroom using the new VSCO Film Pack 05.
L'homme et les drapeaux rouge de la Place Tiananmen.
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The man and the red flags of Tiananmen Square.
A 'Field of Flags' planted by American Legion Post 291 in front of Greenville Elementary School in Greenville, New York.
I see more state flags flown in Texas than any other state that I've visited. That's pretty cool. This US Flag and Texas Flag are both very large. They're located in front of the Taste of Texas Restaurant next to the Katy Freeway (I-10) in Houston. To gain some perspective, those are the tops of trees at the bottom of the frame. (Excellent restaurant, by the way).