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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brighton Beach - FAO Peter
From: pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 20:07:47 +0100
References: <E189BCC0-83DE-4967-970C-156533B6044D@icloud.com> <CAH1UNJ0Cr=UZua-i66+4B0hsz9mgnovyDB6Tze=kQFvPA1jbDw@mail.gmail.com> <9FDAB4CC-1006-45C0-B785-B772FD8953FC@sfr.fr> <1B17A021-B44C-479E-B47C-66D965B945F1@icloud.com> <553E866A.8060904@jayburleson.com> <4D0302F0-508F-4ACF-8800-25AF56691041@icloud.com> <5540B7F4.30007@summaventures.com> <68EB5D6E-8513-4BC6-BE86-14E58495049E@icloud.com>

I liked that one too.

Peter

On 29/04/2015 15:22, Gerry Walden wrote:
> 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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