Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you Jay - very good of you to look and to comment. I have to agree, I prefer the colour one. Hope you are well, Gerry Gerry Walden 023 8046 3076 > On 27 Apr 2015, at 19:56, Jay Burleson <leica at jayburleson.com> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information