We're outdoors on an overcast day with a few breaks in the light cloud cover allowing blue sky through but no hint of much sunshine. In front of us, a little raised up on a rough, concrete base, there is a rusted cube about a metre wide on each side. Each face is a square sheet of orange rust with large rivets down the edges connecting it to its neighbours. Two thirds of the way up the vertical sides of the cube there are circular holes, about the size of an adult's head. Our angle looking towards the cube at a diagonal lets us see through the two holes on the two sides we can see and through the holes on the far side beyond. Behind the cube there is a landscape of short green grass interspersed with hedges and bushes that are sparsely covered with dark leaves.

#FotoVorschlag Kubistisch

Photo theme: Cubist.

This is the observation hatch for a bombing decoy bunker in Farlington Marsh near Portsmouth. It operated as a "Starfish site" in World War II to decoy aircraft away from the city. On the 17th April 1941, 144 […]

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Flat wide harbour, the water is still, and a low, watery, wintry sun hazy in the sky and reflecting off the sea. Portsea Island on the right and Hayling Island on the left separate the sea from the sky. Green and brown grasses make the foreground, with dead thistle-like shrubs silhouetted against the flat sea.

English winter's noon looking down to the mouth of #Langstone Harbour, #Portsmouth on Portsea Island to the right and #Hayling Island to the left. My picture taken from #Farlington Marshes.

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Brilliant day at farlington marshes, literally 50 yards out the car and this kestrel swung past right into a tree.

Sometimes you just have to be in the right past at the right time

#farlingtonmarshes #farlington #kestrel #seaside #naturephotography #birdsofprey #raptors #droneandbelow