Are we nearing the end of Photography as we used to know it?

[gamba]

Don Petter,

The Vintage cars. The nearest one to camera, on right of picture is a Vauxhall 30/98 & I am positively DROOLING 11

[umslopogaas]

#76 gamba, can you identify the one in the middle? That butterfly badge is very distinctive, but I cant remember which company used it.

[Don Petter]

#76 gamba, can you identify the one in the middle? That butterfly badge is very distinctive, but I cant remember which company used it.

I'm sorry that I can't remember (and pumping up the original photo gives no more definition). Those cars were not competing, just some of the supporters, so they are not listed in the programme.

[It does look like a blue butterfly with a central vertical silver band.]

[umslopogaas]

Don Petter, the photo's fine, its quite clear enough to identify the characteristic badge: its just that I cant remember which make it represents. I thought it might be Invicta, but I just looked them up and I dont think it is. There must be a vintagent out there who can oblige.

[gamba]

Don,

Re. the centre car, I don't think the outside exhausts really belong. I cannot think of or remember any marque displaying these as a standard fitting, apart from some rather special versions from the Lagonda works of a later date & it 'aint one of them ! Somehow they just don't look right - an 'added on afterwards' feel about them. No doubt about the 4.5 litre Bentley in the background though. Lovely creatures !

[gamba]

#79

You should stick with Invicta. Have seen a photo with similar radiator & outside exhausts - very similar to Don's photo.

[Don Petter]

#79

You should stick with Invicta. Have seen a photo with similar radiator & outside exhausts - very similar to Don's photo.

Easy enough, once I'd thought of it - Put reg into RAC online check:

1932 Invicta 4467cc

[umslopogaas]

Thanks folks, I thought it could be, but the badge in the photo in my book is obscured by one of those chrome plated radiator guards. Very classy stuff, only produced in very small numbers for just eight years, with prices up in the Rolls and Bentley stratosphere. Top speed 90 - 95 mph, which for the early thirties was pretty fast!

[Ferretfancy]

What on earth is all this about? Nothing to do with the demise of old photographic techniques and equipment, surely?

Please enlighten us.

HS

Hornspieler,
I haven't seen his photos for quite a long time, but O Winston Link was an American photographer who produce amazing images at night using multiple flash. He would set up scores of flash guns at the scene, and usually only had a single chance to get it right. One of his most famous photographs was of an enormous steam locomotive passing a busy swimming pool, making the weirdest contrast.
Unique.

[Hornspieler]

Hornspieler,
I haven't seen his photos for quite a long time, but O Winston Link was an American photographer who produce amazing images at night using multiple flash. He would set up scores of flash guns at the scene, and usually only had a single chance to get it right. One of his most famous photographs was of an enormous steam locomotive passing a busy swimming pool, making the weirdest contrast.
Unique.

Ferretfancy:

Many thanks for that. Yes, a remarkable picture and let us hope that such treasures are not lost when so-called progress is responsible for putting these pioneering achievements out of our awareness.

HS

[amateur51]

Ferretfancy:

Many thanks for that. Yes, a remarkable picture and let us hope that such treasures are not lost when so-called progress is responsible for putting these pioneering achievements out of our awareness.

HS

An apology is due to Paul Sherratt then, Hornspieler?

[Stunsworth]

One of his most famous photographs was of an enormous steam locomotive passing a busy swimming pool, making the weirdest contrast.
Unique.

I think the photograph you may be thinking of is this one taken at a drive in cinema...

[Hornspieler]

An apology is due to Paul Sherratt then, Hornspieler?

I queried what the connection was with this thread and Paul Sherratt was good enough to explain, for which I thanked him.

HS

[amateur51]

I queried what the connection was with this thread and Paul Sherratt was good enough to explain, for which I thanked him.

HS

No Hornspieler, it was Ferretfancy who explained the photograph to you. Paul Sherratt has not posted on this thread since your original message to him

[Hornspieler]

No Hornspieler, it was Ferretfancy who explained the photograph to you. Paul Sherratt has not posted on this thread since your original message to him

AM51:

My message #74 was a query, not an insult. I was concerned with the direction in which this thread seemed to be heading.

So I asked if somebody would explain the relevance of some messages.

And I did say "please"

I think that subsequent discussion in messages numbers 76 to 83 concerning badges on veteran cars justify my concern.

If my post in reply to Mr Sherratt's was in any way insulting, I would have expected one of the Hosts, not you, to tell me so.

Yes, it was FerretFancy who explained the connection and I duly thanked him

HS