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***April 2025 Image and Video Thread***

RuleOfThirds said:
During these liberation days the uncle from my grandmother and neighbors did hide French Paratroopers who were behind enemy lines. Germans found them. Burned their farm, and took the members of those families to prison and executed them (19 persons). There is a small remembrance site there.

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Amherst (click) on this site there is also a page about this execution. My photo I posted is near where the farm was. On the execution site there is a bigger memorial. Here an article about what happened.
 
Three images from 80 years plus two weeks ago (in late March 1945) ...

My father (a "T3" surgical technician) and his U.S. Army 290th Engineer Combat Battalion were in Weingarten, Germany, heading east to Mannheim. Refer to page 30 in the "History of the 290th ECB".

He snapped an indoor photo of 3 of his buddies illuminated by a wood fire. Visible in the background are multi-pane arched windows. I discovered this photo two weeks ago (!) at the bottom of a large box of family photos.

For a few days, my Dad and his fellow medics were (literally) operating in an abandoned factory. On March 31, 1945 he sent a "V-Mail" message to his fiancé (his future wife, and my mother to be) consisting of a drawing of the factory, with its multi-pane arched windows, chimney, railroad tracks, and Allied artillery firing in the background.

He captured a nighttime photo of the muzzle flash of one of the Allies' 105mm cannons. What appear to be railroad tracks are visible in the foreground. I found this photo, and the V-Mail message, 2-3 years ago.

Until I found the indoor fire-light photo, I didn't know for sure how the images were connected.

P.S.: The soldiers in the fire-light photo survived the war.
P.P.S.: My family & I have now donated all my father's WWII photos and artifacts to the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.

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Apologies for a not-an-L-mount photo. This is of several "DJI Mini 4K" drone shots I snapped this morning to illustrate how the (not yet complete) HI-LO Trail goes under a new bridge across Tryon Creek State Natural Area. Taking photographs on a beautiful, relatively warm Spring day is a good way to keep one's sanity. Cheers.
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xaviergut said:
This is a photo of the river Inn, in the border between Austria and Germany. I don't know the nacionality of the swans...

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You made me remember a dutch song from during the cold war (translated):

And only the birds
Fly from West to East Berlin
They are not called back
Nor are they shot down
Over the Wall
Over the Iron Curtain
Because sometimes they want to be in the West
And sometimes in the East
Because sometimes they want to be in the West
Sometimes in the East
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
A western meadowlark.
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Nice picture, congratulations! I've tried to photograph meadowlarks but never got a good picture. They are funny birds, always trying to draw you away from their nest, with their loud call and sometimes acting wounded. I'm headed to a spot end of next week where I've seen them and I'll take the camera - probably to be disappointed again. What is your secret?
 
CharlesH said:
Nice picture, congratulations! I've tried to photograph meadowlarks but never got a good picture. They are funny birds, always trying to draw you away from their nest, with their loud call and sometimes acting wounded. I'm headed to a spot end of next week where I've seen them and I'll take the camera - probably to be disappointed again. What is your secret?
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Thanks!

They are tricky. I have no real secret; I just happen to live in an area where they are not uncommon in my backyard and along our walking paths. I do agree they are tricky, however. I hear them *far* more often than I see them. I'd been hearing this guy for days but never saw him. Then finally one day he decided to show himself while I was enjoying the company of my dog while relaxing in the yard. He hung out long enough that I was able to go inside and grab the camera.

I suppose if there is one thing I have learned with birds is to always be "chill." For example, if I do need to go inside to get the cam, I just casually move about as if I don't have a care in the world and I don't even know the bird is there. Not sure if that helps keep the bird calm, but it does help me :)

In this case I was actually able to progressively move closer to the bird several times before it took off. I always start at the door, just to get something, then I slowly move forward a bit - not looking at the bird - then stop, grab a few frames, then try again. This time I was able to get quite close.

Sadly, in my last position, I was standing there, elbow propped up on a fence post, AF locked on, finger on the trigger, in SH "Pre" mode, ready to capture it taking off. However, when it actually did take off, my old DfD instincts kicked in and I thought "oh well, it's over" and never activated the shutter. To quote the great Homer Simpson: "Doh!!!!"
 
GeorgeHudetz said:
I suppose if there is one thing I have learned with birds is to always be "chill." For example, if I do need to go inside to get the cam, I just casually move about as if I don't have a care in the world and I don't even know the bird is there. Not sure if that helps keep the bird calm, but it does help me :)

In this case I was actually able to progressively move closer to the bird several times before it took off. I always start at the door, just to get something, then I slowly move forward a bit - not looking at the bird - then stop, grab a few frames, then try again. This time I was able to get quite close.
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Yeah; that's how I have to stalk the blue herons when I see them passing through at local parks.

The geese, now - they're bold as brass. When a gaggle of them is blocking one of the walking paths, I can sometimes walk right through them without them doing more than edging away a little. ^^;;
 
Travis Butler said:
Yeah; that's how I have to stalk the blue herons when I see them passing through at local parks.

The geese, now - they're bold as brass. When a gaggle of them is blocking one of the walking paths, I can sometimes walk right through them without them doing more than edging away a little. ^^;;
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Yeah, those geese don't seem to care about humans very much. Now bald eagles, that's a different story. Or an off-leash dog, for that matter...
 
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p/s There's more here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jp6jgw653HiSBBtw5
 
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