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Copehill Down is the British Army's purpose-built Urban Warfare Training Facility on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, South-West England.

It's impossible to take a bad photo here due to the quality of the light in the buildings and from the subject matter itself - the high degree of concentration and effort required of Urban Warfare is plain to see, even in Training...

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Nice portrait. As you said you captured the concentration of the soldier. I Would have liked It better if his head was turned slightly so you could see more of his eyes. I also would have liked to more of the egde of the wall that is visible in the lower left corner. Anyway, I like it.

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if there is one thing you can say about mankind, there is nothing kind about man.
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Sometimes what you get is what you get.
In the room with us were 12 other guys all with rifles and machine-guns, shoving and pushing and all intent on doing their jobs - I'm literally the least important person there.
Often I have a fraction of time to get the shot before I'm shoved out of the way. All good fun though...

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"When I hold a camera, I know no fear..." - Alfred Eisenstadt

"If your pictures are no good, you're not close enough!" - Robert Capa
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awesome portrait. The lighting is perfect and you really did capture his concentration.
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I thank you ma'am... where the Hell is Spang AB in Germany? I'm up at Hohne between Hannover and Hamburg.

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"When I hold a camera, I know no fear..." - Alfred Eisenstadt

"If your pictures are no good, you're not close enough!" - Robert Capa
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Spangdahlem is about 30 minutes from Trier. We're in the south west part of the country. I'm about 4 hours from where you are. (I googled it :))
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Aha... and you're a USAF photographer there -part of a Cobat Camera Team or just doing PR (I say 'just' - I was a CCT for 4 years and now languish in the cultural and creative Siberia of Army PR...).

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"When I hold a camera, I know no fear..." - Alfred Eisenstadt

"If your pictures are no good, you're not close enough!" - Robert Capa
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not combat photography, just base photography. studios, events, and occasionally we do get deployed or go TDY. ?I've been TDY to Baumholder, but have not yet had the chance to deploy.
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Well I can heartily recommend Bagram AB - very nice DFAC and a nice view of the mountains. Also the occasional 107mm rocket but hey what's that amongst friends?

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"When I hold a camera, I know no fear..." - Alfred Eisenstadt

"If your pictures are no good, you're not close enough!" - Robert Capa

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Nov 9, 2006, 9:12:45 AM

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