All Clear.

[Eyemo]

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I may re-up......
HD

 

[Cigarband]

In the back garden near the rose bushes?

 

["Skeet" McD]

Dear Eyemo,
I thought LONG and hard before posting this...and, obviously having decided to do so wish to stress that it's only one fallible man's opinion...but: your photography is remarkable for its historical verisimilitude; (you already know that)---this is the first shot I've seen from you that doesn't cut it.

I'm sure models had to retreat to the shelter in the back garden along with everyone else...but seeing folks this pretty, and this well dressed in a garden party shoot is one thing--like your magisterial '30s effort; conjuring the Blitz doesn't bring this shot immediately to mind. To this pair o' eyes at least it looks....staged, and stagey.

Too clean: too pretty: too....well, to go to the tiniest details...is the font used on your Sainsbury crate the right one? why the cleaned off area around it? (these are honest questions: I'm no expert on the material culture of this time and place).

Millions Like Us, Mrs. Miniver, and The Cruel Sea were staged as well...but I think were closer to the truth than this, for all that. The last thing any of us want--and YOU particularly, because you so clearly attempt to make the past come alive--is to manicure and romanticize it; I hope you'll consider, at some point, redoing this shoot with a bit more dirt and a bit more...average...subjects. The glory of what average Britons accomplished in that period is summed up in...their UNremarkableness, in everything save their plucky courage and stolid patience. We ALL are the beneficiaries of those "just folks" who--at great cost to themselves--stuck it out, when the rest of the world had either already been sucked under or (like my own country) refused to come to their timely aid.

As always: just one man's opinion, no more: no less; but from someone who respects what you have done, and attempt to do, very highly.

Sincerely and Respectfully,
"Skeet"

 

[DutchIndo]

All Clear ! Reminds me of a few years back after 9-11. I was sitting at a light waiting for the green when I heard a siren. It seems GG was testing some old sirens I think. It was the type you hear on a 1950s Sci Fi. One could barely hear it over the din of the cars. I guess it was loud in the 50 or 60s when there were fewer cars but not now.

 

[Story]

All Clear ! Reminds me of a few years back after 9-11. I was sitting at a light waiting for the green when I heard a siren. It seems GG was testing some old sirens I think. It was the type you hear on a 1950s Sci Fi. One could barely hear it over the din of the cars. I guess it was loud in the 50 or 60s when there were fewer cars but not now.

Did it sound like this?

http://www.victorysiren.com/x/wav/sound.htm

http://www.victorysiren.com/x/main.htm

 

[Eyemo]

Hey Skeet, no problem mate...
This in fact is a shot I took for Sainsbury's a department store we have here in the uk...
They are celebrating 140 years in business....

Don't worry, I'm going back to my "old style" very soon....

Thanks for telling it "as is"...appreciate honest explained criticism ..:eusa_clap It makes me more confident about my other stuff...
Seimon..

 

["Skeet" McD]

Hey Skeet, no problem mate..This in fact is a shot I took for Sainsbury's a department store we have here in the uk...
They are celebrating 140 years in business....Don't worry, I'm going back to my "old style" very soon....

Dear Seimon,
AHA! "All Clear" indeed--"I once was blind, but now I see"

We all have to make a living, and you give the customer what he wants. Good on yez.

Keep up the good work, and let them pay you just as much as they will! You deserve it.

"Skeet"