Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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