Soren Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 The Telegeram, not done the subject well enough I feel, but here goes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gporta Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Soren, I always check your drawings as I think that they are very good. I admire the way in which you capture the Great war in your work. I usually manage to keep a distance from the subject... but this time couldn't help my eyes going moist... Gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 28 September , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 September , 2005 A munitions worker weeping into the telegram... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Soren, every picture tells a story and again you have done just that. What is going through her mind now? So many questions and not enough answers. Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 28 September , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 September , 2005 A Pal once furnished me with the story and a picture of Billy Smith and his Fiancee who'd died a spinster at the age of 105 still clutching his picture, doing it from memory here, but imagining her looking at his picture, whilst holding his letters wondering about what might have been.. And then 90 years on the picture will be sold on e-bay for £4.99, by someone who could'nt give a...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 28 September , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 September , 2005 This image is based on my Gt Gt Grandfather, who lost his son, Patrick Thomas Staunton listed below: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ypres1418 Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Soren, you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would. And he never did get over it did he? Mandy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soren Posted 28 September , 2005 Author Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Soren, you have captured the sadness in his eyes just like a camera would. And he never did get over it did he? Mandy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nope, a proud Irish man, very sad indeed, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christina Holstein Posted 28 September , 2005 Share Posted 28 September , 2005 Heart-rending pictures, Soren. As always, you capture the essence of things, particularly the one of your grandfather. Christina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spike10764 Posted 29 September , 2005 Share Posted 29 September , 2005 Soren I don't know how you do it ,but you do, every time. The sheer emotion comes flooding out of those pictures, that's what you do you capture expressions simply and powerfully. Well done mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gporta Posted 29 September , 2005 Share Posted 29 September , 2005 (...) And then 90 years on the picture will be sold on e-bay for £4.99, by someone who could'nt give a...... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There's a way to prevent people not give a .... As far as you teach them to care about this things, it is unlikely that they'll sell them up for nothing... In the worse of cases, at least there'll be someone who will be interested in the picture (and the story behind). (anyway... who knows if ebay will still be around in 90 years: maybe future trade will be done by sophisticated tele-transportation means... or maybe we'll be back to trading arrow heads and amber beads and will communicate by smoke signals) Gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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