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Subject: [OM] Re: Skipwith Common
From: "Tom Fenwick" <super.wide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:57:17 +0100
Thanks Chris!
I have been trying to photograph that place for a while - it's easy to walk
around admiring, but hard to get it down on paper...  I'm getting there
though, I think.

And yes, several of those compositions demanded wellies and a stick!

Tom

2008/8/10 Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> Tom
>
> I've held off commenting about these photos because the subjects are
> not really my sort of thing.  But I remain an admirer of your ability
> to find composition and interest where I might be still trying to get
> my gumboots out of another sucky-muddy hole.
>
> And yes, 1952 is an excellent photos, although I might be tempted to
> use it as the basis for a bit of manipulation and posterisation, or
> perhaps monochromatisation (:-)).
>
> And what a great place to lay an airfield, eh?  It's even better than
> RAF Brüggen in Germany, near the Dutch border and Roermond, which was
> apparently shunned by the German forces because of its bogginess,
> swampiness and infestation with aggressive flying insects.  But the
> Brits built an airfield there and manned it throughout the Cold War,
> In fact we launched missions to Kosovo from there in 1999 ...
>
> Chris
> On 6 Aug 2008, at 09:38, Tom Fenwick wrote:
>
> > Glacial lake, peat bog, bomber command airfield, common pasture.  A
> > bit of
> > scrub with a complicated history!
> > http://www.pbase.com/tom_77/skipwith
> >
> > Tom
>
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