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Dawn raid - Summer sunrises are always a challenge. The first dawn raid in what seems like ages - Blea Tarn and the Langdales with mist swirling over the water's surface with mirror perfect reflections to complete the scene.
Well worth the ridiculously early start and being at the tarn's shoreline from 0457.
Lake District, Cumbria
An abandoned Stanton Air Raid Shelter in young woodland near Alford, Lincolnshire, UK. This was probably part of the Air Base RAF Strubby during World War II.
The Raid - While driving through a very urban area, I noticed a large mass of birds descending into some Pyracantha bushes. I first thought they were starlings/robins, but a closer look at the stoplight revealed they were waxwings. I pulled into the parking lot and waited. The low temperatures and concentration of food drove the waxwings to feed in close proximity to pedestrians, so I seized the opportunity to document and photograph a stunning gathering of ~300-500 of these birds all feeding on low lying berry bushes. Isolating one bird at this proximity was impossible, so I tried to capture behavioral group shots. They were in such a feeding frenzy that berries were flying and they were even retrieving them from the road and flying just a few feet from where I was sitting. I suspect they were quite intoxicated as well. A Cooper's Hawk briefly disrupted their feeding, but they resumed to feed even in the heavy hail at which point I left.
A treat to observe these beautiful masked bandits up close and to finally capture images and footage of this species that do them justice!
Species: Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum)
Location: Sacramento County, CA, USA
Equipment: Canon EOS R5 + RF 100-500mm IS
Settings: 1/3200s, ISO: 4000, f/7.1 @472mm, Handheld, Electronic Shutter
Common Blackbird (Turdus merula) male
He was enjoying the plums that we leave behind for the birds.
Happy Wing Wednesday!
Le anatre si sono accalcate per accaparrarsi la loro parte del cibo che viene buttato in acqua da volenterosi pensionati. Improvvisamente ecco un attacco dal cielo da parte di decine di gabbiani pronti ad inserirsi nella spartizione.
“Sensō-ji ([sẽ̞ꜜɰ̃so̞ːʑi], 浅草寺, officially Kinryū-zan Sensō-ji (金龍山浅草寺), also known as Asakusa Kannon (浅草観音)), is an ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest-established temple, and one of its most significant. It is dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. Structures in the temple complex include the main hall, a five-story pagoda and large gates. It is the most widely visited religious site in the world with over 30 million visitors annually.
The temple was destroyed during a 10 March 1945 firebombing air raid on Tokyo during World War II. The main hall was rebuilt in the 1950s. Formerly associated with the Tendai sect of Buddhism, the temple became independent after the war. Leading to it is Nakamise-dōri street, containing many shops with traditional goods. Adjacent to the east of Sensō-ji is the Asakusa Shrine of the Shinto religion.”
Raid fotografico in B&W, con fotomodelle, risalente a circa 20 anni fa. Mi divertii un mondo. Slurpppp!!!
Nullement effarouché par le couple de goélands marins, le goéland argenté passe et repasse, menaçant, juste au dessus pour faire dégager les intrus de la place convoitée.
Reeuwijk Raid 2011 (sailing race on the 'Reeuwijkse plassen', The Netherlands).
This image was taken by a camera lofted by a kite. The weather was difficult: frequent strong wind gusts and heavy showers. The weather changed for the better at the end of the race, allowing this shot where the participants are moored to a small yellow buoy.
Best viewed large. The rest of this series can be viewed on www.fotovlieger.nl
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[ body ] eBody Reborn
[ boobs ] Soapberry + Bork – Mounds
[ skin ] Velour – Phoebe
[ crown ] Mug – Regina
[ hair ] Wings – ER0326
[ eyes ] Petrichor – Naiad
[ markings ] Nuuna – Ari
[ sleeves/crystal ] Aii – Frostbite / Crystal Implant
[ bikini ] Muse – Explicit Content
[ claws ] L’Emporio – Damned Claws
[ ooze ] Static – Hexxus Symbiote
[ outline ] Creatica – Animated Cell Shader
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A post-collapse Black Ops team is performing a raid on a rundown modern villa. While seemingly abandoned, the building was recently claimed by an armed civilian.
This was most notably inspired by diegoboy and modern architecture as a whole. While I have done damaged buildings multiple times already, it was definitely a fun experience to focus on a certain kind of architecture and to create a small modern villa.
This display is Brick to the Past's "Raid on Maracaibo" diorama detailing one of the events in the life of famed pirate/privateer Henry Morgan. It was shown at Bricktastic 2018 in Manchester.
The builders were James Pegrum, Dan Harris, Simon Pickard and myself.
Le Raid 4L Trophy est un raid automobile solidaire destiné aux jeunes de moins de 28 ans et couru exclusivement en Renault 4. Créé par Jean-Jacques Rey en 1997, il est organisé par l'entreprise Desertours en partenariat avec l'École supérieure de commerce de Rennes.
Le Raid 4L Trophy a lieu chaque année, au mois de février. Les participants (environ 2 500 personnes âgés de 18 à 28 ans) disputent cette course d'orientation. Le parcours, d'environ 6 000 km, traverse la France, l’Espagne et le Maroc. Le départ a lieu à Biarritz, puis les équipages traversent librement l'Espagne jusqu'à Algésiras et prennent le ferry pour le Maroc, où les épreuves du raid commencent. Le parcours présente plusieurs étapes dont certaines autour des dunes de Merzouga et dans l'Atlas, pour mener jusqu'à Marrakech. Les participants roulent la journée, en se guidant avec un roadbook et une boussole. Ils se rassemblent le soir dans un bivouac prévu par l'organisation. Les deux derniers jours d'épreuves constituent l'étape « marathon », où les participants établissent leur bivouac en autonomie. Au cours de ce voyage, les participants transportent des fournitures scolaires et sportives, qui sont redistribuées aux enfants du sud marocain à l'arrivée. Chaque équipage est classé en fonction du nombre de kilomètres réalisés pour passer par chaque point de contrôle du parcours, l'objectif étant d'en parcourir le moins possible.
The Raid 4L Trophy is a solidarity automobile raid intended for young people under 28 and raced exclusively in Renault 4. Created by Jean-Jacques Rey in 1997, it is organized by the company Desertours in partnership with the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce of Rennes. The Raid 4L Trophy takes place every year in February. The participants (about 2,500 people aged 18 to 28) compete in this orienteering race. The route, approximately 6,000 km, crosses France, Spain and Morocco. The start takes place in Biarritz, then the crews travel freely through Spain to Algeciras and take the ferry to Morocco, where the trials of the raid begin. The route presents several stages, some of which around the dunes of Merzouga and in the Atlas, to lead to Marrakech. Participants ride the day, guided by a roadbook and a compass. They gather in the evening in a bivouac provided by the organization. The last two days of events constitute the “marathon” stage, where the participants set up their bivouac independently. During this trip, participants carry school and sports supplies, which are redistributed to children in southern Morocco on arrival. Each crew is classified according to the number of kilometers made to pass through each checkpoint on the course, the objective being to cover as few as possible.
Raid boats are a leisure pursuit combining sailing and rowing boat.
Powered by sail and oar (no use of engines allowed!) raiding allows you to enjoy a bit of light competition over a set course.
Done with scraps... first for the new year. I made it a Raid piece because last time I painted at the lab I had a 50 come down and do the best he could to make my life difficult. The best he could come up with was making me move my car 20 meters further away so I would have to work so much harder carrying all those empty paint tins back to the car. He was very pleased with himself so this was done in his honour... stupid asshole... Big ups RFK, FAL and MG.
Happy Veterans Day 2022!
RAID 01 (KC-135R, 57-2605) is on right base to final for RWY 17 at Grand Forks Air Force Base, ND on 4 Apr 06.
What a simplistic-yet-amazing airplane. The "57" in the tail number stands for the year "1957"...think about that. And then realize these planes are still flying today.
I enjoyed my time flying this old bird despite its flaws (like lack of A/C on the ground). And I always loved the look of the perfectly-rounded CFM-56s; they just looked so good (as opposed to the squished bottoms of what you find on 737s). Sure, it meant scraping the pods on takeoff or landing was a constant threat, but I never scraped one during my tenure flying the real tanker!
As the saying goes and like I like to remind my fighter pilot brethren: NKAWTG...N!
Scarborough is a seaside town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the North Sea coastline. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet (3–70 m) above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.
With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire Coast and largest seaside town in North Yorkshire. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians.
The town is claimed to have been founded around 966 AD as Skarðaborg by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider. There is no archaeological evidence to support this claim, which was made during the 1960s as part of a pageant of Scarborough events. The claim is based on a fragment of an Icelandic Saga. In the 4th century, there was briefly a Roman signal station on Scarborough headland, and there is evidence of earlier settlements, during the Stone Age and Bronze Age. Any settlement between the fifth and ninth centuries would have been burned to the ground by a band of Vikings under Tostig Godwinson (a rival of Thorgils Skarthi), Lord of Falsgrave, or Harald III of Norway. These periodic episodes of destruction and massacre means that very little evidence of settlement during this period remained to be recorded in the Domesday survey of 1085. (The original inland village of Falsgrave was Anglo-Saxon rather than Viking.)
A Roman signal station was built on a cliff-top location overlooking the North Sea. It was one of a chain of signal stations, built to warn of sea-raiders. Coins found at the site show that it was occupied from c. AD 370 until the early fifth century.
In 2021 an excavation at a housing development in Eastfield, Scarborough, revealed a Roman luxury villa, religious sanctuary, or combination of both. The building layout is unique in Britain and extends over an area of about the size of two tennis courts. It included a bathhouse and a cylindrical tower with rooms radiating from it. The buildings were “designed by the highest-quality architects in northern Europe in the era and constructed by the finest craftsmen.” Historic England described the finds as “one of the most important Roman discoveries in the past decade.” There are plans to revise the housing development layout, recover the remains and incorporate them in a public green area. Historic England is to recommend the remains be protected as a scheduled monument.
Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built an Angevin stone castle on the headland and granted the town charters in 1155 and 1163, permitting a market on the sands and establishing rule by burgesses.
Edward II granted Scarborough Castle to his favourite, Piers Gaveston. The castle was subsequently besieged by forces led by the barons Percy, Warenne, Clifford and Pembroke. Gaveston was captured and taken to Oxford and thence to Warwick Castle for execution.
In 1318, the town was burnt by the Scots, under Sir James Douglas following the Capture of Berwick upon Tweed.
In the Middle Ages, Scarborough Fair, permitted in a royal charter of 1253, held a six-week trading festival attracting merchants from all over Europe. It ran from Assumption Day, 15 August, until Michaelmas Day, 29 September. The fair continued to be held for 500 years, from the 13th to the 18th century, and is commemorated in the song Scarborough Fair:
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
—parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...
Scarborough and its castle changed hands seven times between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the English Civil War of the 1640s, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following the civil war, much of the town lay in ruins.
In 1626, Mrs Thomasin Farrer discovered a stream of acidic water running from one of the cliffs to the south of the town. This gave birth to Scarborough Spa, and Dr Robert Wittie's book about the spa waters published in 1660 attracted a flood of visitors to the town. Scarborough Spa became Britain's first seaside resort, though the first rolling bathing machines were not reported on the sands until 1735. It was a popular getaway destination for the wealthy of London, such as the bookseller Andrew Millar and his family. Their son Andrew junior died there in 1750.
The coming of the Scarborough–York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims a record for the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880s until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.
During the First World War, the town was bombarded by German warships of the High Seas Fleet, an act which shocked the British (see Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby). Scarborough Pier Lighthouse, built in 1806, was damaged in the attack. A U-boat assault on the town, on 25 September 1916 saw three people killed and a further five injured. Eleven of Scarborough's trawler fleet were sunk at sea in another U-boat attack, on 4 September 1917.
In 1929, the steam drifter Ascendent caught a 560 lb (250 kg) tunny (Atlantic bluefin tuna) and a Scarborough showman awarded the crew 50 shillings so he could exhibit it as a tourist attraction. Big-game tunny fishing off Scarborough effectively started in 1930 when Lorenzo "Lawrie" Mitchell–Henry, landed a tunny caught on rod and line weighing 560 lb (250 kg). A gentlemen's club, the British Tunny Club, was founded in 1933 and set up its headquarters in the town at the place which is now a restaurant with the same name. Scarborough became a resort for high society. A women's world tuna challenge cup was held for many years.
Colonel (and, later, Sir) Edward Peel landed a world-record tunny of 798 lb (362 kg), capturing the record by 40 lb (18.1 kg) from one caught off Nova Scotia by American champion Zane Grey. The British record which still stands is for a fish weighing 851 lb (386 kg) caught off Scarborough in 1933 by Laurie Mitchell-Henry.
On 5 June 1993, Scarborough made international headlines when a landslip caused part of the Holbeck Hall Hotel, along with its gardens, to fall into the sea. Although the slip was shored up with rocks and the land has long since grassed over, evidence of the cliff's collapse remains clearly visible from The Esplanade, near Shuttleworth Gardens.
Scarborough has been affiliated with a number of Royal Navy vessels, including HMS Apollo, HMS Fearless and HMS Duncan.
The town has an Anglican church, St Martin-on-the-Hill, built in 1862–63 as the parish church of South Cliff. It contains works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Ford Madox Brown. A young Malton architect, John Gibson, designed the Crown Spa Hotel, Scarborough's first purpose-built hotel. Notable Georgian structures include the Rotunda Museum, Cliff Bridge and Scarborough Pier Lighthouse. Victorian buildings include the Classical Public Library and Market Hall, the Town Hall, Scarborough Spa, the Art Gallery, the South Cliff Methodist Church, and Scarborough railway station. The architecture of Scarborough generally consists of small, low, orange pantile-roofed buildings in the historic old town, and larger Classical and late Victorian buildings reflecting the time during the 19th century as it expanded away from its historic centre into a coastal spa resort.
A notable landmark in the town is the Grand Hotel on St Nicholas Cliff. Designed by Cuthbert Brodrick of Hull, it was completed in 1867; at the time of its opening, it was the largest hotel and the largest brick structure in Europe. It uses local yellow brickwork with red detailing and is based around a theme of time: four towers represent the seasons, 12 floors the months, 52 chimneys the weeks and the original 365 bedrooms represented the days of the year. A blue plaque outside the hotel marks where the novelist Anne Brontë died in 1849. She was buried in the graveyard of St Mary's Church by the castle.
An amount of 20th century architecture exists within the main shopping district and in the form of surrounding suburbs. Buildings from this century include the Futurist Theatre (1914), Stephen Joseph Theatre, Brunswick Shopping Centre (1990), and GCHQ Scarborough, a satellite station on the outskirts of the town.
An example of an air-raid siren at Bristol's Aerospace Museum in Filton. The sound of this going off would send factory workers rushing for the air-raid shelter, I assume only during a war!
In celebration of the anniversary of the Lindisfarne Raid in 793, I proudly present to y'all, "Raid!".
Last night Ned* & Dougal* & I went in search of the infamous Inverclyde WW2 air-raid shelter that was built for the workers of the local rope factory. After about 2yrs of wondering where on earth it was we recieved an unexpected tip-off as to its whereabouts. (*names changed to protect anonymity...)
Unbelievably we discovered another likely looking tunnel candidate in the vicinity 1st before Ned struck lucky and found the shelter...
At 600' long, 10' wide & 7' high it was considered the largest shelter in the UK when it was built in 1939. It was tunneled into the rock 45' below the surface- the government required shelters be 25' below surface so this one was considered literally bomb-proof...
Great info here about the Greenock Blitz in 1941
On Monday 3rd January 2022 members of the Bath Tub Club drove from Warminster to Imber across Salisbury Plain.
Imber is an uninhabited village within the British Army's training area on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. It remains under the control of the Ministry of Defence and non-military access is limited to several open days a year.
SALA raiding warehouses where corrupt politicians stored drugs, alcohol, expensive cars and women. To date 1,528,922 Rand have been returned to the people after selling the luxuries of those corrupt punks.
Mousehole, on the Penwith peninsula in the far west of Cornwall, is a delightful little fishing village which has become largely reliant on the tourist industry. Although we think that the threat from the Spanish was defeated when the Armada had its famous problems in 1588, the Spanish continued to threaten these shores. Mousehole was one of several villages and small towns razed to the ground by a Spanish raiding party in 1595. The harbour is much older than that, and parts of it date back to before the medieval era although the present buildings surrounding it date from around the 18th century onwards.
During the World War II, extensive air raid shelters were built in the castle walls, able to hold up to 1,800 people. These are still open to visitors to the castle today.
Pictures of my section of the latest Brick to the Past creation as seen at Bricktastic Manchester 2018.
This was a collaborative display created by myself, James Pegrum, Dan Harris and Simon Pickard.
If you want to read more about the background to this event, check out the related Blog to the Past entry.