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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brighton Beach - FAO PHILIPPE
From: leica at jayburleson.com (Jay Burleson)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:56:42 -0700
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YES!
Gerry, you know how much I like b&w images ;-) but this one is smashing 
in colour!

Jay

On 4/27/2015 1:08 AM, Gerry Walden wrote:
> Philippe
>
> Thank you for your kind comments about my image, and for comparing it with 
> the work of the John Hinde postcard people. The image was, of course, shot 
> in colour because it is a raw file from the X-Pro1 and in the light of 
> your comments I have now uploaded it in colour (which in hindsight I think 
> I prefer). You can see it here:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/_2AE3267-3.jpg.html
>
> Your opinion on the colour version would be appreciated.
>
> Kindest best wishes to you both,
>
> Gerry
>
> Gerry Walden
> 023 8046 3076
>
>> On 26 Apr 2015, at 20:10, Philippe <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at 
>>> icloud.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday I visited a new landscape photographic gallery in Brighton,
>>>> and whilst there took this image overlooking the beach:
>>>>
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/_2AE3267.jpg.html <
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gwpics/_2AE3267.jpg.html>
>>>>
>>
>> So reminiscent of John Hinde's Butlins adverts and postcards.
>> Yours Gerry, albeit being in BW, show the same soul, that of the 
>> everlasting Britain of the 60s :-)
>>
>>
>> http://we-english.co.uk/blog/2009/08/19/butlins-reborn-and-the-john-hinde-postcards/
>>
>> " The postcards were brought together in a wonderful book edited by 
>> Martin Parr and published by Chris Boot. Our True Intent is all for Your 
>> Delight was published in 2005.
>>
>> ?Long viewed only as a master of kitsch Hinde is now recognised, albeit 
>> posthumously, as a peerless social documentarian. Dazzling in their their 
>> colour intensity and strange clarity?. Visionary, Wonderful.? Sean 
>> O?Hagan, The Observer, London
>>
>> ?Extraordinary?the combination of aesthetics and promotion produced 
>> something that bypasses documentary and approaches an arresting British 
>> surrealism.? David Jays, Financial Times "
>>
>>
>>
>> Congrats and thanks for bringing up sweet memories of Clacton-on-Sea. 
>> Well, that was long before UKIP ?.
>>
>> Amities
>> Philippe


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