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Dartmoor ponies braving the wind

Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion

The other evening, while multiplexing through the channels between programmes, I discovered one of those hidden gems (at least to me) that are tucked away on BBC4.

I do think that this sort of format could be easly adapted to other genres.

The fashion photographer Rankin was recreating what, in his opinion, were definitive fashion photographs from each decade since the 30's.  Now, I had always understood Rankin to be a punk-like, gruff personality but he came over as quite eloquent, not to say passionate, about the task in hand.

Highlights included

• recreating a David Bailey image with DB in attendance and heckling - an example being "I was better looking than you are, you need makeup, Rankin"
  
• Rankin and his assistants struggling to remember what to do with "film" - I was convinced that a camera was going to be dropped at one stage!
  
• nude photography on the backstreets of Paris - a la Helmut Newton..... 
  

oh.... and something for the ladies....

now, what was that about a spare tyre???

A link to the BBC page about the programme.... this may only work in the UK

Seven Photographs That Changed Fashion

Watching Me, Watching You....

Death masks from Borneo.....

Alien Entry

On the day that ESTA has been introduced as a mandatory requirement for visitors to the USA from countries that are part of the visa waiver scheme, there has been the predictable outcry from the media and some UK politicians that seem to have missed the news about this over the past many months.

All I can say is that the scheme itself is a doddle to use, I just wish that I didn't have to use the green form that is thrown at you to fill in on arrival, as the questions are identical.... The proof of the pudding will be seen by me next week....

And whatever Moral Torpitude is - I haven't done it!

Earthrise

Possibly one of the most famous photographs ever was processed 40 years ago......

NASA image

Read an account of the image here.  Of particular interest to me, today, is the account of the Kodak employees entrusted with the film (see the second half of the article).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/forty-years-since-the-first-picture-of-earth-from-space-1297569.html

Stuck together

Today is

National English Toffee Day

watch out for getting your teeth stuck together! or worse, pulling crowns out!

Frozen In Place....

Be careful when touching bare metal with your bare hands...... it is a long time since I have seen ice like this in southern England. This is what happens after a few days with the temperature below freezing.

Images are now being blogged from flickr - after a few hiccups with clashing templates.....

Let there be light!

Snow? no! Sand!!!

Drying tonight

Racetrack

Collision Course

Being resolute....

Feel better about myself

Enjoy life

Lose some weight - today doesn't count does it? :)

Take more and more, and better and better photos!

and just maybe blog a lot lot more!!!!