Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is a very moving series, my congratulations. FWIW I prefer the colour, but I always do... cheers, Frank On 31 Mar, 2010, at 20:03, briandavidstevens at talk21.com wrote: > 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