Your favourite photographers or images

Nisse said:

I see life in colour so I see no wrong in colour film

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Digimonkey said:

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Looking at the post yesterday by @udrako - The work of Frank Hurley - Australian still and moving photographer. He was an experienced Antarctic photographer but is most famous for being on the crew of Ernest Shackleton's ill fated 1914 attempt to cross the continent on foot. Their ship - pictures 1 & 2 - the Endurance, became trapped in ice in the Weddell sea eventually being crushed and sinking. Thankfully this happened slowly and they had time to strip the ship of all their supplies and anything else useful to their survival. After no small danger they eventually ended up setting up camp on Elephant Island and Shackleton with 5 other men set off in an open 22 ft lifeboat to get help. Incredibly they survived the 800 mile journey through some of the roughest seas in the world - and made it to Stromness whaling station on South Georgia. The rest of the party were duly rescued - Shackleton didn't lose a single man. Most of them made it home in 1916. It's an incredible story - Shackleton wrote a very good book about it - 'South.' I recommend it.

Upon rescue - none of them knew about the outbreak of war, as they had left before it started - Hurley became an official photographer to the Australian army mostly working in the Ypres campaign - the fourth picture. Hurley survived the war but - sadly - most of the rest of them did not. To have lived through their ordeal in the Southern Ocean to die - or be badly wounded in the trenches is grimly ironic indeed. cheers - I.

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Digimonkey said:

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Looking at the post yesterday by @udrako - The work of Frank Hurley - Australian still and moving photographer. He was an experienced Antarctic photographer but is most famous for being on the crew of Ernest Shackleton's ill fated 1914 attempt to cross the continent on foot. Their ship - pictures 1 & 2 - the Endurance, became trapped in ice in the Weddell sea eventually being crushed and sinking. Thankfully this happened slowly and they had time to strip the ship of all their supplies and anything else useful to their survival. After no small danger they eventually ended up setting up camp on Elephant Island and Shackleton with 5 other men set off in an open 22 ft lifeboat to get help. Incredibly they survived the 800 mile journey through some of the roughest seas in the world - and made it to Stromness whaling station on South Georgia. The rest of the party were duly rescued - Shackleton didn't lose a single man. Most of them made it home in 1916. It's an incredible story - Shackleton wrote a very good book about it - 'South.' I recommend it.

Upon rescue - none of them knew about the outbreak of war, as they had left before it started - Hurley became an official photographer to the Australian army mostly working in the Ypres campaign - the fourth picture. Hurley survived the war but - sadly - most of the rest of them did not. To have lived through their ordeal in the Southern Ocean to die - or be badly wounded in the trenches is grimly ironic indeed. cheers - I.

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Steve Bowles said:

Photography was diminished when Kodak invented the colour film.

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Digimonkey said:

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I could never describe this as a favourite picture - in any conventional sense but given the anniversary - it's worth looking at. Aerial pictures of the village of Passchendaele - before and after the battle. I.

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jmudrick said:

Vietnam war photographers Nick Ut and Tim Page are both acquaintances. Tim used to drink at my bar in Phnom Penh (Vanilla Fudge fan), is an extremely talented photographer and a way way larger than life character.


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jmudrick said:

Vietnam war photographers Nick Ut and Tim Page are both acquaintances. Tim used to drink at my bar in Phnom Penh (Vanilla Fudge fan), is an extremely talented photographer and a way way larger than life character.


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Digimonkey said:

I'm deeply impressed. In many regards. Nick Ut's iconic image of the Napalm strike is a crop. When you see it full frame there is another photographer at the left hand side of the frame - base plate of his Leica in his teeth frantically trying to jam a fresh roll of film into the camera. Poor bastard - basically he missed one of the most important, world changing and influential pictures of the decade. I.

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