My entries to the Army Photographic Competition 2016

October 01, 2016  •  3 Comments

 

Here are my entries to this year's Army Photographic Competition, please let me know what you think. (Some are entered more than once)

 

The categories:

 

Portfolio (Consisting of six images - Portrait, Sport, Equipment, Ops & Training, PR, Black & White)

'Tell a Story' (Four images from a single job showing the story)

Portrait

Soldiering

Sport or Adventure Training

Online (Any image on which the public will vote)

 

 

Portfolio One

 

ArmyHq-2015-226-396ArmyHq-2015-226-3962015 sees the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Inter Company Boxing Tournament kick off with no less than four company teams training to compete for themselves and for the coveted Champion Company title.

Training for the tournament is run over a course of six weeks with three sessions being conducted each day. Sessions include skills lessons, sparring, long runs, circuits and swimming.

The tournament will be comprised of six different weight divisions from Light Welter to Super Heavyweight.

Dreghorn Barracks, the home of 3 Rifles in Edinburgh will be host to the boxing championship and is a strong tradition within the Regiment.

PORTRAIT

A 3 Rifles boxer

 

APOWMID-2016-017-143APOWMID-2016-017-143Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

Royal Corps of Signals corps boxing finals at Gamecock Barracks. Both male and female boxers of carrying weight categories took part in the finals.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695

SPORT / ADVENTURE TRAINING

Royal Signals boxers compete against one another

 

SH4_0463SH4_0463Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

159 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps take part in Exercise Lion Star where the troops have been developing their leadership skills. The regiment have also taken part in an adventure training package.

NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695

EQUIPMENT

An issued water bottle

 

SH4_0572SH4_0572Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
Two reserve soldiers take part in a command task designed to test leadership and trust.

159 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps take part in Exercise Lion Star where the troops have been developing their leadership skills. The regiment have also taken part in an adventure training package.

NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695

OPS & TRAINING

Soldiers carrying out a command task in Cyprus

 

APOWMID-2016-035-033APOWMID-2016-035-033Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright



Almost fifteen hundred soldiers from the Household Division will be on parade to mark the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday on 11th June 2016 on Horse Guards Parade, at the ceremony known as Trooping the Colour. All the Royal Colonels will accompany Her with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal riding on the parade.

This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards. The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel James Thurstan, Coldstream Guards, will command the Parade.

The Soldiers will be on parade in the traditional ceremonial uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and Foot Guards. The musicians in the Household Cavalry Band and the Drum Majors will be in their priceless Gold Coats. There will be more than 300 horses on parade, and musicians from all the Household Division Bands & Corps of Drums will march and play as one. The famous Drum Horses of the Household Cavalry Band carrying priceless antique solid silver drums weighing 80lbs each will also be on parade.

Hundreds of hours of training, rehearsal and preparations have gone into making this a world class event fit for a Queen. All those troops taking part are operational soldiers first and foremost and have balanced honing their ceremonial skills with tough combat training at home and overseas. The medals on their chests are testament to their frontline service to the nation.

The immaculately turned out troops start forming up on Horse Guards Parade from 09.15am onwards. Her Majesty leaves Buckingham Palace at 10.45am and arrives on the parade at 11am, returning to Buckingham Palace at 12.20pm.

At precisely 12.52pm Gun Salutes will be fired across the capital: The Honourable Artillery Company will fire at The Tower of London and the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery will fire from Green Park.

The RAF Flypast dow

'PR'

The Senior Bandmaster of the Massed Bands of the Guards Division

 

APOWMID-2016-043-098APOWMID-2016-043-098Ex Flying Falcon 16 (Ex FF16) is an 11 Signal & West Midland Brigade field exercise run to ensure the competence in the provision of a fully integrated and managed network to enable Command and Control. In addition it is an opportunity to undertake further capability development activity.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

BLACK & WHITE

A Royal Signals soldier operates a Bowman radio set in the back of an armoured '436' comms vehicle

 

 

 

Portfolio 2

 

ArmyHq-2015-226-131ArmyHq-2015-226-1312015 sees the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Inter Company Boxing Tournament kick off with no less than four company teams training to compete for themselves and for the coveted Champion Company title.

Training for the tournament is run over a course of six weeks with three sessions being conducted each day. Sessions include skills lessons, sparring, long runs, circuits and swimming.

The tournament will be comprised of six different weight divisions from Light Welter to Super Heavyweight.

Dreghorn Barracks, the home of 3 Rifles in Edinburgh will be host to the boxing championship and is a strong tradition within the Regiment.

PORTRAIT

A 3 Rifles boxer

 

APOWMID-2016-029-003APOWMID-2016-029-003Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
A soldier tears down a track on a mountian bike as part of an adventure training package.
159 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps take part in Exercise Lion Star where the troops have been developing their leadership skills. The regiment have also taken part in an adventure training package.

NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695

SPORT / ADVENTURE TRAINING

Mountain biking Cyprus

 

APOWMID-2016-048-019APOWMID-2016-048-019Hexamine stoves with burning solid fuel blocks. The blocks are used to heat water in the mess tin, which in turn heats up the sealed ration pack ready meals.

British Asian girls from Huddersfield and Batley shone a spotlight on Army medicine when they visited a military field hospital in York this weekend.

The visit to Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Strensall was arranged by the Huddersfield Pakistani Community Alliance and the Indian and Muslim Welfare Society in conjunction with 4th Infantry Brigade based in Catterick and was designed to give the girls an insight into a career in medicine with an Army flavour.

Hosted by 34 Field Hospital based in Strensall, the girls were shown how to build a temporary shelter called a basha and prepared and ate a Halal operational ration pack for lunch. They were shown a battlefield ambulance and had the roles and equipment of a Combat Medical Technician and field surgical team explained.

After some basic first aid training including resuscitation techniques, they took part in a problem-solving task where they had to put their newly-acquired skills into practice.

34 Field Hospital was the last field hospital to deploy to Camp Bastion in Afghanistan in 2013 and also returned home a year ago from Sierra Leone where military staff ran the Ebola Treatment Centre in Kerrytown.

Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP

EQUIPMENT

Mess tins, Rations and Hexamine stoves

 

APOWMID-2016-038-160APOWMID-2016-038-160Exercising civilian population and public order officers clash on the training area at Llydd.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

OPS & TRAINING

Public Order Training

 

APOWMID-2016-035-301APOWMID-2016-035-301Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright



Almost fifteen hundred soldiers from the Household Division will be on parade to mark the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday on 11th June 2016 on Horse Guards Parade, at the ceremony known as Trooping the Colour. All the Royal Colonels will accompany Her with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal riding on the parade.

This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards. The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel James Thurstan, Coldstream Guards, will command the Parade.

The Soldiers will be on parade in the traditional ceremonial uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and Foot Guards. The musicians in the Household Cavalry Band and the Drum Majors will be in their priceless Gold Coats. There will be more than 300 horses on parade, and musicians from all the Household Division Bands & Corps of Drums will march and play as one. The famous Drum Horses of the Household Cavalry Band carrying priceless antique solid silver drums weighing 80lbs each will also be on parade.

Hundreds of hours of training, rehearsal and preparations have gone into making this a world class event fit for a Queen. All those troops taking part are operational soldiers first and foremost and have balanced honing their ceremonial skills with tough combat training at home and overseas. The medals on their chests are testament to their frontline service to the nation.

The immaculately turned out troops start forming up on Horse Guards Parade from 09.15am onwards. Her Majesty leaves Buckingham Palace at 10.45am and arrives on the parade at 11am, returning to Buckingham Palace at 12.20pm.

At precisely 12.52pm Gun Salutes will be fired across the capital: The Honourable Artillery Company will fire at The Tower of London and the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery will fire from Green Park.

The RAF Flypast dow

'PR'

Trooping the Colour, Horse Guards Parade London

 

ArmyHq-2015-226-381ArmyHq-2015-226-3812015 sees the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Inter Company Boxing Tournament kick off with no less than four company teams training to compete for themselves and for the coveted Champion Company title.

Training for the tournament is run over a course of six weeks with three sessions being conducted each day. Sessions include skills lessons, sparring, long runs, circuits and swimming.

The tournament will be comprised of six different weight divisions from Light Welter to Super Heavyweight.

Dreghorn Barracks, the home of 3 Rifles in Edinburgh will be host to the boxing championship and is a strong tradition within the Regiment.

BLACK & WHITE

A boxer from 3 Rifles

 

 

 

'Telling a Story' 1 & 2

 

APOWMID-2016-007-116APOWMID-2016-007-116Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

Mr Chatterton from RAB talks through the condition of one of the flood defence assets in the Attenborough nature reserve.

Servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force conduct training on iPad applications in support of the nations flood defences.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

For More information please contact the Picture Editor, Richard Watt 07836 515306 or Deputy Picture Editor, Shane Wilkinson 07901 590723
APOWMID-2016-007-129APOWMID-2016-007-129Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

Servicemen lead by RAB consultants and the Environmental Agency assess the condition of a pair of flood gates in the Attenborough nature reserve.

Servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force conduct training on iPad applications in support of the nations flood defences.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

For More information please contact the Picture Editor, Richard Watt 07836 515306 or Deputy Picture Editor, Shane Wilkinson 07901 590723
APOWMID-2016-007-137APOWMID-2016-007-137Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

A soldier replaces the cover on a winch which is used to raise the flood gates in the Attenborough nature reserve.

Servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force conduct training on iPad applications in support of the nations flood defences.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

For More information please contact the Picture Editor, Richard Watt 07836 515306 or Deputy Picture Editor, Shane Wilkinson 07901 590723
APOWMID-2016-007-149APOWMID-2016-007-149Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

Servicemen and women from the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force conduct training on iPad applications in support of the nations flood defences.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Credit - Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP (Army)

For More information please contact the Picture Editor, Richard Watt 07836 515306 or Deputy Picture Editor, Shane Wilkinson 07901 590723
FLOOD DEFENCE TRAINING

RAB and the Environment Agency teach soldiers how to check and record flood defences around the UK

 

 

 

APOWMID-2016-038-115APOWMID-2016-038-115Part of the exercising public order squad suit up in VIRTUS.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
APOWMID-2016-038-124APOWMID-2016-038-124Soldiers acting as an angry civilian mob congregate outside the Starry Plough inn on the training are at Llydd.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
APOWMID-2016-038-215APOWMID-2016-038-215Exercising civilian population and public order officers clash on the training area at Llydd.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
APOWMID-2016-038-160APOWMID-2016-038-160Exercising civilian population and public order officers clash on the training area at Llydd.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

PUBLIC ORDER TRAINING

Soldiers play both soldier and rioter during public order training in Llydd

 
 

 

Portrait 1 & 2

 

ArmyHq-2015-226-256ArmyHq-2015-226-256Credit to read: Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP
Model Release Signed

Rifleman Ross Webb

2015 sees the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Inter Company Boxing Tournament kick off with no less than four company teams training to compete for themselves and for the coveted Champion Company title.

Training for the tournament is run over a course of six weeks with three sessions being conducted each day. Sessions include skills lessons, sparring, long runs, circuits and swimming.

The tournament will be comprised of six different weight divisions from Light Welter to Super Heavyweight.

Dreghorn Barracks, the home of 3 Rifles in Edinburgh will be host to the boxing championship and is a strong tradition within the Regiment.

ArmyHq-2015-226-396ArmyHq-2015-226-3962015 sees the 3rd Battalion The Rifles Inter Company Boxing Tournament kick off with no less than four company teams training to compete for themselves and for the coveted Champion Company title.

Training for the tournament is run over a course of six weeks with three sessions being conducted each day. Sessions include skills lessons, sparring, long runs, circuits and swimming.

The tournament will be comprised of six different weight divisions from Light Welter to Super Heavyweight.

Dreghorn Barracks, the home of 3 Rifles in Edinburgh will be host to the boxing championship and is a strong tradition within the Regiment.

 

 

 

 

Soldiering 1 & 2

 

SH4_0572SH4_0572Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
Two reserve soldiers take part in a command task designed to test leadership and trust.

159 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps take part in Exercise Lion Star where the troops have been developing their leadership skills. The regiment have also taken part in an adventure training package.

NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695
APOWMID-2016-038-160APOWMID-2016-038-160Exercising civilian population and public order officers clash on the training area at Llydd.

Members of the Bristol University Officers Training Corps take part in public order training on the defence training estate in Llydd. Officers came face to face with Soldiers from Catterick who were playing as protesting civilians.

The new VIRTUS body armour was tested through the day for the fist time in a public order situation.


Photographer:
Corporal Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

 

 

 

Sport or Adventure Training 1 & 2

 

APOWMID-2016-017-143APOWMID-2016-017-143Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright

Royal Corps of Signals corps boxing finals at Gamecock Barracks. Both male and female boxers of carrying weight categories took part in the finals.


NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695
APOWMID-2016-029-003APOWMID-2016-029-003Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright
A soldier tears down a track on a mountian bike as part of an adventure training package.
159 Regiment, Royal Logistics Corps take part in Exercise Lion Star where the troops have been developing their leadership skills. The regiment have also taken part in an adventure training package.

NOTE TO DESKS:
Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382352 - 94391 2352
07836 515306

Dep Pic Ed -
[email protected]
01264 382351 - 94391 2351
07901 590723

Phot -
Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP
[email protected]
01952 673695 - 94480 3695

 

 

 

Online 1 & 2

 

APOWMID-2016-035-033APOWMID-2016-035-033Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright



Almost fifteen hundred soldiers from the Household Division will be on parade to mark the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday on 11th June 2016 on Horse Guards Parade, at the ceremony known as Trooping the Colour. All the Royal Colonels will accompany Her with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal riding on the parade.

This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards. The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel James Thurstan, Coldstream Guards, will command the Parade.

The Soldiers will be on parade in the traditional ceremonial uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and Foot Guards. The musicians in the Household Cavalry Band and the Drum Majors will be in their priceless Gold Coats. There will be more than 300 horses on parade, and musicians from all the Household Division Bands & Corps of Drums will march and play as one. The famous Drum Horses of the Household Cavalry Band carrying priceless antique solid silver drums weighing 80lbs each will also be on parade.

Hundreds of hours of training, rehearsal and preparations have gone into making this a world class event fit for a Queen. All those troops taking part are operational soldiers first and foremost and have balanced honing their ceremonial skills with tough combat training at home and overseas. The medals on their chests are testament to their frontline service to the nation.

The immaculately turned out troops start forming up on Horse Guards Parade from 09.15am onwards. Her Majesty leaves Buckingham Palace at 10.45am and arrives on the parade at 11am, returning to Buckingham Palace at 12.20pm.

At precisely 12.52pm Gun Salutes will be fired across the capital: The Honourable Artillery Company will fire at The Tower of London and the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery will fire from Green Park.

The RAF Flypast dow
APOWMID-2016-035-301APOWMID-2016-035-301Photo: Cpl Paul Shaw ABIPP; Crown Copyright



Almost fifteen hundred soldiers from the Household Division will be on parade to mark the Queen’s Official 90th Birthday on 11th June 2016 on Horse Guards Parade, at the ceremony known as Trooping the Colour. All the Royal Colonels will accompany Her with The Prince of Wales, The Duke of Cambridge, and The Princess Royal riding on the parade.

This year, the Colour being trooped in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen is that of Number 7 Company Coldstream Guards. The Field Officer in Brigade Waiting, Lieutenant Colonel James Thurstan, Coldstream Guards, will command the Parade.

The Soldiers will be on parade in the traditional ceremonial uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery, and Foot Guards. The musicians in the Household Cavalry Band and the Drum Majors will be in their priceless Gold Coats. There will be more than 300 horses on parade, and musicians from all the Household Division Bands & Corps of Drums will march and play as one. The famous Drum Horses of the Household Cavalry Band carrying priceless antique solid silver drums weighing 80lbs each will also be on parade.

Hundreds of hours of training, rehearsal and preparations have gone into making this a world class event fit for a Queen. All those troops taking part are operational soldiers first and foremost and have balanced honing their ceremonial skills with tough combat training at home and overseas. The medals on their chests are testament to their frontline service to the nation.

The immaculately turned out troops start forming up on Horse Guards Parade from 09.15am onwards. Her Majesty leaves Buckingham Palace at 10.45am and arrives on the parade at 11am, returning to Buckingham Palace at 12.20pm.

At precisely 12.52pm Gun Salutes will be fired across the capital: The Honourable Artillery Company will fire at The Tower of London and the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery will fire from Green Park.

The RAF Flypast dow

 

The Army Photographic Competition is run annually and is open to all Regular Army and Army Reserve personnel, cadets of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF)Army Cadet Force (ACF)University Officer Training Corps (UOTC Army) and Ministry of Defence civilians who work directly for the Army. It is divided into two categories, amateur and professional.

 


Comments

Paul Watson(non-registered)
Lovely image of an issued water bottle Paul - truly inspirational!
Glenn(non-registered)
Cracking set of images there mate, good luck, impressive set
Me Likey(non-registered)
Me likey this
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