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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brighton Beach - FAO PHILIPPE
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 10:00:17 +0100
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Thanks Philippe. I have altered the perspective, and here is a link to it 
(on my revamped website):

http://gerrywalden.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/England-and-the-English/G0000Xq3tU6XjrpI/I0000MrQiGkzEnfY/C0000RnlbetPLD9I

Best wishes

Gerry
Gerry Walden
023 8046 3076

> On 27 Apr 2015, at 09:53, Philippe <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> wrote:
> 
> Yup!
> 
> Works for me at least :-)
> (that's an instance when a same file works both in colour and in BW, good 
> on you :-)
> 
> While on the raf you might want to try and get the corner of the Walls 
> stall (and lamp post?) vertical - I tried my luck with it from the jpeg 
> but it spoils the rest of the perspective and depth ? I'll post it to you 
> off list.
> 
> Keep them coming
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
> Le 27 avr. 2015 ? 10:08, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at icloud.com> a ?crit 
> :
> 
>> 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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