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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brighton Beach - FAO Peter
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 15:22:07 +0100
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Peter

It was one of the Winter ones I liked. It is the one where there are a line 
of cows walking towards a single tree in the top left quadrant. Really nice!

The thing I would add is that although they may not ?click? they are selling!

Gerry

Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 29 Apr 2015, at 11:52, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Gerry,
> 
> interesting to have a new landscape gallery with high quality work on the 
> South
> Coast.
> 
> Not sure what I think of the exhibition. They are very nice to look at, but
> somehow they  don't quite click, even though they are gorgeous. The Winter
> gallery is really good though.
> 
> Peter
> 
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
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