Brilliant photo from amateur army photography competition

firthy15 · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:09

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Army_chief_praises_brave_photographers_news_294102.html

What a shot !

Sinque · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:11

Almost looks fake, strange lighting

firthy15 · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:12

Just found his portfolio one the MoD website, click on the first pic it looks so surreal, stunning.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/PictureViewers/GalleryArmyPhotographicCompetition2009.htm

*edit* here you go

Redman · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:16

firthy15 said:
Just found his portfolio one the MoD website, click on the first pic it looks so surreal, stunning.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/PictureViewers/GalleryArmyPhotographicCompetition2009.htm

Excellent, thanks for that - image 8 is amazing too

AHarvey · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:29

Reminds me of the shot my uncle took when he was in the army 20 odd years ago:

SoundsGood · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:39

AHarvey said:
Reminds me of the shot my uncle took when he was in the army 20 odd years ago:

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Got any more?

AHarvey · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:45

That's it, he had some amazing shots from northern Ireland when he was posted there.

I would love to try and track more of his down, he didn't keep any himself though so I'd have to contact MoD I think.

dubbs · 23 Jan 2010 at 18:48

brilliant pics thanks for sharing

Luke · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:02

That's a brilliant photo.
Here's one my wife took when we were in Vegas. Shame it was a very low res camera. Ok, nowhere near as stunning as the ones above, but I'm impressed you can see the round leaving the gun!

Dj_Jestar · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:03

Sinque said:
Almost looks fake, strange lighting

Head lamps.

KNiVES · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:05

AHarvey said:
That's it, he had some amazing shots from northern Ireland when he was posted there.

I would love to try and track more of his down, he didn't keep any himself though so I'd have to contact MoD I think.

That is a very good picture, have you considered submitting it to any museums or archives and the like?

daelo · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:14

I love the first one the op posted, the way the explosion forms a column above the round is just cool

Cosimo · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:25

firthy15 said:
What a shot !

That's cool.

NvidiaDan · 23 Jan 2010 at 19:28

Taken with the same camera that i have

AHarvey · 23 Jan 2010 at 22:01

KNiVES said:
That is a very good picture, have you considered submitting it to any museums or archives and the like?

Well, I want to try and find more of his photos if I can, I've a few general ones from Germany around 20 years ago and a few group shots etc but not action ones.

I am sure he'd be more than happy to have his images submitted to a museum/archives but who would want them?

firthy15 · 24 Jan 2010 at 00:51

AHarvey said:
Well, I want to try and find more of his photos if I can, I've a few general ones from Germany around 20 years ago and a few group shots etc but not action ones.

I am sure he'd be more than happy to have his images submitted to a museum/archives but who would want them?

Try the imperial war museum maybe.

I'm sure there are archives that like to keep old pictures especially amateur taken ones of times like these.

SourChipmunk · 24 Jan 2010 at 02:34

Sinque said:
Almost looks fake, strange lighting

Three-second exposure according to the exif. Pretty cool!

kinobestew123 · 24 Jan 2010 at 02:38

Fantastic pics, if anybody else has any of a similar nature, I for one would be interested in seeing them.