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Here are a couple of shots of 2 PARA in the jungles of Belize where the Army photographer has won an award for his photos.
Always interesting to see that all the scopes are removed in those steamy climates leaving just open sights, the very basics of the rifles design!!
Well, at CQB you almost want instinctive shooting anyway. The sights sometimes aren't even needed...let alone enhanced optic...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
First photo almost looks like it was shot in a studio it is so clear.
As a white-haired old man speaking from the experiences of his 'tropical vacation' in sunny Southeast Asia in the 1960s, sneaking about in waist deep water on people in a tropical rain forest who are trying to sneak up on you for the purpose of killing is NOT fun.
Done it then; glad I won't have to do it again.
Those pictures look like paintings.
One assumes the guys sitting around a fire are doing so some place safe.
"...waist deep water...a tropical rain forest..." In which wee things live that cause bad things to happen. And everything else is out to get you.
I presume thats why he won his class, as they went through the swamp he set it up having placed lighting around the swamp mist for best effect, however, the detail on the subject to patrol commander was outstanding, and as you say like a painting!
The card game was in a basher as the exercise ended and before the wash up the next morning....hairdown time, its called "Happy Families" ha ha!!.
Some hardened faces there after many Iraq and Afghan tours;)
Gil, I don't suppose you have any info on the cameras used by any chance, please? Presumably MOD "official photographers" use digital cameras nowadays?
You mean like leeches, snakes, and an endless variety of creepy crawlies? Yep, they put the 'pucker factor' up for a start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sunray
I know they are using NIKON but not sure what series these days.
In my day it was the standard Asahi Pentax 35mm B/W that was it lol
Yon photo hath a heavily edited look! :D
"...You mean like..." Yep. And every kind of bacteria/virus and maybe the occasional crocodile or Caiman or big kitty or a really PO'd monkey. That sort of thing doesn't happen in a tank. snicker.
Not having served, but spent time in the Mekong Delta back in the early 1990's,it's the unrelenting humidity that seems to rot the clothes from your back and make electronic equipment fail, the unrelenting mosquitos, the giant cockroaches that are constantly landing on you and the biggest spiders I have ever seen...
...............other than that a great holiday location :lol:
Its God's sh** hole, any jungle is not meant for human entry, steaming location full of danger, especially Malaya
where one has to always be ahead of the game, even when you tie up your hammock, otherwise you wake up bitten to pieces as a colony of the largest ants you have ever seen crawl along the string from both ends!
I am convinced they waited for squaddies to tie them up every night. Mossy nets work and the poncho above kept the rain off but in terms of being ready to evade the enemy..........no chance!!:surrender:
"...other than that a great holiday location..." Yep. Nothing like a Caribbean vacation.
Mind you, our black flies and mosquitoes can carry a full grown bull moose into the bush. No mean snakes or crocs, left. The mosquitoes and black flies got 'em. snicker.