Snapper

Saw this jeep with a chum on the A21 on Sunday evening - presumably on the way home from Headcorn. Hope it's someone on the forum. The snap isn't great. I didn't match the speed right out of the window of our Verso. MB

This HDR thing on Photoshop allows you to match colours similar to Signal. I also tried to match some of the washed out colours we find in early Kodak and Agfa films (as well known brands) and in some of the lesser known Autochrome processes which are truly beautiful when you see them in their original form. I recently handled The Times shots of King George V making making his 1935 Christmas broadcast, his lying in state in 1936 and King George VI made just after his Accession in 1936 in the autochrome format and the colours are astonishing = even if the royals are not your thing, the pictures have something about them. We do have some military stuff, but the majority was made of British industry - look that one up in your history books kids. You can imagine what the Teeside steelworks of the 1930s looked like in colour just as much as Kent villages...(one of them was.....Beltring...if memory serves). It almost looks hand coloured, but is done with starches and dyes from foodstuffs and so on, We actually scan them back to front because the emulsion process is in reverse to conventional film. It is amazing how this survives, yet twenty-five year old Kodachrome and Ektachrome is deteriorating because the starches which maintain red and yellow do not stand up after this time. I can yap about this stuff for ages and I am only tinkering with my training at work. But it is all important. One day my brain will forget all of it. This is why I write it down. Poor you! So, get Photoshop or another product with HDR and play with it. You don't need the extremes of gamma and so on - or too heavy on the detail settings. Play with the saturation and the vibrance and you will get truly stunning results. It is fun. I am a learner. It shows. What I want to do now is dig my stuff out going back into the 1990s and see if I can make the pix I wanted look right now which did not look so great then. Watch this space.

a slanted message - but I was mightily peed orff to have no camera when three Met fuzz choppers did several close formation passes over the City and then a long hovvery thing over Tower Hill (approx) while I was out on my rounds. This appears to have been done for a camera ship flying with them. It was very impressive. Have seen plenty of Lynx up from HMS Ocean and the usual flybies of Chinook and Apache we get along the Thames - but this was special. Back to reality.... MB

The singularly colourful Johnnie Odball.

A last look at the 101st AB.

.................................... Here's Keith again...

I said Good Moaning to the cop from Allo Allo and he said Good Moaning back. I am complete.

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The incredible Mark Hart wins the Mark Hart Award. Whodathunk???????? Big thanks to all the chaps for helping me on Saturday evening when I was feeling so low. Much appreciated.

Some more snaps including the son and heir........He was a wee lad for his first WP. Now he is 6 feet 3.

You might recognise this couple from earlier in the day dressed in Great War French kit. They were photographed by the Independent in the clothes shown here......

Take notice......

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By this time, I needed to get out of the arena and find my bed because the brain thing was being really pooey... but there was time for a few more snaps.

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The Great War....

Saturday<<<<<<<<<< We start with a couple of views of the mighty Keith Nisbet...

Then the Germans give up and it all ends with the Comet rumbling by. I do hope you have enjoyed these snaps. I don't often highlight specifics...

The next sequence went really well and are a credit to the groups doing this stuff..