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Post by Patrick Dixon » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:40 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Saw Cornish and Ward on BBC Breakfast this morning - in Whitby.

David Ward can't be a proper photographer though because he doesn't use an Ebony.

'Ready, Steady, Click', anyone?

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Post by Paul Mitchell » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:44 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Here's the link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7997559.stm

I recently spent a week up in Northumberland with them and whether you like or dislike their style of photography they are two thoroughly nice chaps who are passionate about their art. Oh and Mr Cornish said the same thing about Mr Ward and his TK :wink:

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Post by richard littlewood » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:52 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

David Ward can't be a proper photographer though because he doesn't use an Ebony

Counts me out then!

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Post by DJ » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:37 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Allegedly they count themselves among two opposing camps, and enjoy a little good humoured rivalry between the "woodies" and the "tinnies".

:D

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Post by Charles Twist » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:33 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Just when the digital vs film debate peters out, we find something else to squabble about...
I did notice that in the first version of the accompanying BBC text, there was mention of the technology being hundreds of years old. Mmmm.... Somebody must have written in to point out the excesses of PR.
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Post by Patrick Dixon » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:47 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

'Heavy' and 'Victorian technology' I think they called it.

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Post by Thingy » Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:38 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Nooooooooooooo! :shock:

An Ebony is a work of art combined with engineering functionality that is both ecologically sustainable, robust, strokable (Joanna's soooo right) and useful. Victorian cameras were designed for gentleman photographers (who were typically male gentlemen ;) ) and the odd professional, people like Frith, etc. You can take good images with any camera and decent film with a satisfactory lens if you have the mystic Photographer's Eye (available from me at vast expense).

Now don't all rush, I only have three Photographer's Eyes for sale, and they are all imported, to order, from China's Penal establishments! :twisted: :roll:
Love is an Ebony mounted with a Cooke PS945.......

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Post by Joanna Carter » Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:57 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Thingy wrote:Victorian cameras were designed for gentleman photographers (who were typically male gentlemen ;) )
Are there any other sort? :wink:
Thingy wrote:... and the odd professional
So now you're saying that professionals are odd? :lol:
Thingy wrote:Now don't all rush, I only have three Photographer's Eyes for sale, and they are all imported, to order, from China's Penal establishments! :twisted: :roll:
Can I order them with different dioptre correction?
Reassure yourself - stroke an Ebony

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Re: Celebrity Landscape Photographers

Post by Rob.B » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:00 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Patrick Dixon wrote:Saw Cornish and Ward on BBC Breakfast this morning - in Whitby.

David Ward can't be a proper photographer though because he doesn't use an Ebony.

'Ready, Steady, Click', anyone?
If I were to say what I think of this comment I would be banned!
"Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment." - Ansel Adams

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Re: Celebrity Landscape Photographers

Post by Patrick Dixon » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:45 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Rob.B wrote:
Patrick Dixon wrote:Saw Cornish and Ward on BBC Breakfast this morning - in Whitby.

David Ward can't be a proper photographer though because he doesn't use an Ebony.

'Ready, Steady, Click', anyone?
If I were to say what I think of this comment I would be banned!
... or just lacking a SOH?

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Post by joolsb » Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:37 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

... or just lacking a SOH?
Same old haircut?

Show of hands?

Shoe on hand?

Stupid old herbert?

Strangely odd haberdashery?

So off hand?

Sew-on hand?

?????

:lol: :P

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Post by Patrick Dixon » Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:47 am Etc/GMT-1+01:00

sense of humour

:-)

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Post by joolsb » Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:08 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Ah, of course. :lol:

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Re: Celebrity Landscape Photographers

Post by Rob.B » Fri Apr 24, 2009 6:03 pm Etc/GMT-1+01:00

Patrick Dixon wrote:
Rob.B wrote:
Patrick Dixon wrote:Saw Cornish and Ward on BBC Breakfast this morning - in Whitby.

David Ward can't be a proper photographer though because he doesn't use an Ebony.

'Ready, Steady, Click', anyone?
If I were to say what I think of this comment I would be banned!
... or just lacking a SOH?
NO fed up with elitism, humerous or not!!!

I will laugh with the best, bur at least my camera is eco-sustainable and does not require the felling ao a 60 or more year old tree ( min req to get 20 yr hardwood).

Yeas Ebony's are great, but thecost more than money, ant do not make a photographer!!!

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