Hey guys the title says it all, with the wife working nights all weekend so she was sleeping and the kid was gone to her friends that left me all alone and luckily so because it was the weekend of “the secret city” festival in oakridge and they have a WWII reenactment (my first one) and i live just 10 minutes down the road so off i went camera in hand. They were some awesome vehicles there and I got quite a few pics that may be of interest to some of you so i will post a few of my favourites and a link to the rest. All in all i had a great day.
These are pics of the actual reenactment i was a ways off so i had to zoom in with the camera but the pics are still not bad.
And my favourite one, i was just taking a pic ( i use a digital camera) and had the button pressed waiting the one second or so till it clicks when all of a sudden BOOM!! a explosion went off just at the right moment i couldnt beleive how lucky a shot that was [8D].
I wish i would have thought about it last night and posted a reminder it would have been fun a meet up with you guys, i had a blast the noise and smoke was really cool i felt for the guys involved because it was blistering hot and not a cloud in the sky, lucky there were a few trees around but they all did a fantastic job regardless of the heat and they really looked the part in the uniforms i just wish i could have got more pics but the camera batteries died on me i still got 50+ though so no complains.
Man, I envy the guy who got to serve with that tanker on the Stuart in the 2nd photo there… [(-D]
Being an avid fan of, and participant in off-road dirtbike racing, it amazes me to think that the sport of motocross started in Czechoslovakia after the war on these very bikes, when some adrenaline junkies started having fun on the left-over recon-motorcycles left behind, building crude tracks and racing each other.
Seeing these old bikes–the first motocrossers, to look at them in a totally different light–I have to wonder what it would be like to brap them around one of today’s super-technical tracks–you probably would crack 'em right in half![(-D]
