Continuing my trips out for the day I visited the Midlands Air Museum at Coventry Airport. A good collection of aircraft that I recall from my early days of aircraft spotting and visiting air shows.
Midlands Air Museum
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Hook Norton Viaducts
A wet day here in Hooky, so a quick edit of an image in Photoshop of No2 Viaduct taken in much better conditions last month. I used a set of print templates supplied with N-Photo magazine to highlight the subject name and my details with a black border around the image.
New articles
I enjoy writing articles about items I have researched. Most of them are linked to my family history research. A recent one about William McGill, born William Nelson, can be found under the Genealogy section on this site.
One of the picture libraries I submitted images to suggested I write about some of the subjects I had photographed. They say that if you can produce words and pictures then you have a greater chance of making sales. I wrote several articles and submitted them to the library but they never saw the light of day. I did submit them independently to magazines with better success and two such articles can be found under the Articles – Fact section. They are Child Farm Workers and Window Tax. Admittedly they were written a number of years ago and hopefully my style has improved in recent years.
Gun Salutes
The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery is the Army’s saluting battery and can be seen on numerous occasions during the year in the Royal Parks in London. The first salute of year was on 6th February – Accession Day, the day Queen Elizabeth II acceded to the throne following the death of her father on that day in 1952. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, Prince Philip were staying at Treetops in Kenya when the sad news was received.
The King’s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41 gun salute at noon in Green Park. 21 shots mark the royal occasion plus a further 20 shots as it takes place in a Royal Park making 41 in all. At 1pm the Honourable Artillery Company fires a 62 gun salute at the Tower of London. This is made up of 21 shots for the royal occasion, a further 20 shots as the Tower is a Royal Palace and a further 21 shots will be fired for the City of London.
It is a spectacular sight as the horses canter or gallop depending on whether it is Hyde Park or Green Park to the area where the guns will be fired. Some of their 13 pounder guns saw action during the Great War.
Wonders of Photoshop
I made the most of a couple of sunny days last week and ended up in neighbouring Warwickshire in the village of Wormleighton to be precise. Here are a pair of images of a photogenic barn in the village, one with the wheelie bin kept in and the other with it removed using Photoshop.
