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Strobist info: 2 x SB-600s fired via Cactus triggers into reflective 40" umbrellas to left and right.
Part 2 of 2fer Tuesday.
A filler shot of a bottle of shells. None of which I collected but bought at some point to use in photos (though not quite like this). I need to dig out the macro filters, the light box and the ring flash and have a play with the big camera. Weekend project possibly.
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En esta oportunidad, transportamos un imponente shell de 6,70 metros de diámetro sobre una plataforma portante de 4 lÃneas hidráulicas modulares.
Ello implica un importante desafÃo en materia de transporte terrestre por cuanto, como podrán observar en la galerÃa de fotos que compartimos, debemos atravesar ciudades y pueblos y surcar carreteras de asfalto, de ripio y caminos de montaña.
A photo of a Shell storage facility taken from the Westgate Bridge.
If you are wondering how i got onto the Westgate Bridge to take this photo, it was during a site inspection for a project i am involved with :)
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by G. Lelong of 21, Rue St.-Martin, Amiens. The card, which has a divided back, was printed by Catala Frères of Paris.
By 1916 the Basilica had sustained immense structural damage, along with the loss of its entire roof.
To see the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Brebières before it was destroyed during the Great War, please search for the tag 56ALB66
Visé Paris No. 205
The card bears the imprimatur 'Visé Paris' followed by a unique reference number. This means that the image was inspected and deemed by the military authorities in the French capital not to be a security risk.
'Visé Paris' indicates that the card was published during or soon after the Great War.
Abba Eban
"History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely when they
have exhausted all other alternatives".
This was said during a speech in London UK on 16th. December 1970 by Abba Eban (1915-2002), an Israeli diplomat and writer.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
With an average length of two feet, that number of shells if laid end to end would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres). That's over two and a half times round the Earth. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
This work by cooper gary is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License. If you use this photo, please credit as "photo by cooper gary" with a link-back to this page on Flickr.
I fell madly in love with this shell curtain!
This one was on the veranda of the shell shop at Pawleys Island but they were also inside on the front window.
Mmmm...seaside living!
Believe it or not this was not taken at the beach but at Tredegar House. They had sand and shells edging their flowerbeds.
Bivalve shell, Hippopus hippopus, found Arlington Reef, Queensland, Australia.
Bi1995.17.780
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I went to visit an old friend - the shell tree on Basham Beach - I was not disappointed as someone has been busily adding interesting things...