Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The BW are breath-taking. The colour ones smell and wear the mask of death. Yet, the wicks are still defiantly flickering. Both most excellent. Now the choice is yours. And I know what Ted would say. But it is your. I don't know if this helps. In any case kudos. Most admiringly. Philippe Le 31 mars 10 ? 21:03, briandavidstevens at talk21.com a ?crit : > > Hi LUGers > > As some of you may remember for the past 7 years on remembrance day > I have been shooting portraits of veterans, the portraits are all > shot in the same style, crop etc, I am aiming to keep shooting it > for at least another 3 years. The project is based around the > concept of The Unknown Soldier > > > This is the intro from the book proposal > > "...They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. > Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. > At the going down of the sun and in the morning > We will remember them..." > > from Laurence Binyon's 'The Fallen' (first published in The Times, > 21st > September 1914) > > "They that are left..." : 'Remembrance' portraits. > > Each year they are older, and as they do indeed grow old, as age > does weary them and as the years do now condemn them more to what > they still remember than to our truly remembering what they fought > for (which is very simple : us), > they thus become unknown. > These faces then are as of unknown soldiers > : no cap badges, no ribbons of spooling medals, no insignia for > military rank. Faces, only. Each deep-etched with who they are and > what they did, that we might look, and think -- and thank them. > there's a sample of the work here > http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/9423 > in a slideshow format > > I've recently processed some of these in colour which may lead to an > offshoot project > > http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/2010/03/colour_31.html > > do they work as well as the black and whites? > > Comments and opinions welcomed! > thanks for your time! > > Brian > > > Brian David Stevens > http://driftingcamera.blogspot.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >