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The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, on Friday 23rd June 2023.
 
About the photograph.

This was during a pause in the live action re-enactment show of former military tanks, and in between two different events in the programme.

In the photograph, you see a tanker truck, possibly carrying water, coming onto the arena, and a member of the Tank Museum staff giving directions to the drive, as to where to go to.

Hence, I decided to give this the title of Over There. After all, it looks like the staff guy is pointing in the direction of where the truck driver is supposed to go, and it’s like saying to the driver “Over there.”

This was shot in colour, but I used Lightroom to convert it into black and white for a dramatic feel to it.

The weather was really hot and sunny at that time, and I ended up with a sunburn.
 
About TANKFEST and The Tank Museum.

The Tank Museum is found next to the British Army military base, simply called Bovington Camp, and is used by various tank regiments.

The writer Rudyard Kipling once visited Bovington in 1923, and saw some damaged tanks left from the First World War. He recommended that a museum should be set up.

However the museum was simply a shed, and was not open to the public until about 1947, when the museum was finally set up.

By about 1982, the museum was expanded and modernized, it housed many various different tanks in the Exhibition halls, along with working tanks which are often show in the live action arena.

The museum also has the only working German Tiger I tank, known as Tiger 131.

TANKFEST is an annual live action re-enactment event showing off various working tanks in staged display, in the museum’s showground known as Kuwait Arena.

For more information, just Google “TANKFEST, The Tank Museum, Bovington.”
 
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Taken in: UK / England / Purbeck District / Bovington Camp (show map)

Taken on: June 23, 2023

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