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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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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.
Le monument aux morts de Tréguier dans les Côtes d'Armor, est appelé "La Pleureuse". Il a été réalisé par Francis Renaud.
Le sculpteur a demandé à Marie-Louise Le Put, devenue veuve au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale, de lui servir de modèle. En effet, elle perdit ses trois fils très jeunes puis son mari...Elle est habillée de la mante de deuil, avec une grande capuche protégeant sa coiffe.
Le monument de Tréguier fut inauguré, le 2 juillet 1922.
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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.
A 'Field of Flags' planted by American Legion Post 291 in front of Greenville Elementary School in Greenville, New York.
Edinburgh, 2009
Douglas Foulis 1926-2016
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Northbank lighthouse-Dublin In 1800, a survey of Dublin Bay conducted by Captain William Bligh recommended the construction of the Bull Wall. After the completion of the wall in 1842, North Bull Island slowly formed as sand built up behind it.
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UK Union Flags fluttering in the wind during the London Olympics. Playing with the settings in my new D3200 to try to capture the transparency of these small printed plastic flags.
Our native blue flag irises (iris versicolor) enhance nearly every marshy area throughout the province, and are simply glorious! It was, as you can see, a very breezy day!
Stobist info: 1 Alien Bees B1600 inside of soft boxed flagged with large reflector behind triggered manually while shutter was opened by IR Remote.
It's Been awhile since I had a post. This shot didn't work out the way I wanted. To Start, I forgot my radio triggers and had to fire the strobe manually. I couldn't light the label with a reflector so I blended 2 exposures, one being over exposed by illuminated the label correctly and then simply maked out everything else in post.