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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petach" data-source="post: 253299" data-attributes="member: 1402">OK.....I will cut to the chase.  I have replied to each shot and what they each invoked in me, or how they related to me.  I also take into account the technical merits.  We are not looking at fine art here :0)Photography is all about producing emotion in the viewer or rekindling memories.  For me certain aromas, textures, sounds, atmosphere can be instantly sensed from looking at a photo.  The one I choose today connected me back....not just to the subject matter photographed, but also a whole plethora of sensory micro-explosions.  I smell Brut aftershave, I taste Rossi Ice Cream, I hear BBC Home and Light Services, I smell perfume, aftershave and sweat at the Ilford Palais on a Saturday night, the aromas and sounds of a summers evening after a rain shower, pumping up the tyres on my bike, days when people stopped and doffed their hats as a funeral cortege passed by, Breast of Lamb for dinner, the smell of Robin starch as my mum ironed to "Sing Something Simple", Norman Vaughan, Norman Wisdom, Harry Worth, Charlie Drake, Peyton Place, The Archers, Lost In Space, the old boy with no legs (lost in WW1) using his arms to climb the stairs to his 3rd floor flat, the Rag and Bone man, sucking all the flavour from a Jubbly, buying a pack of 5 Weights from the ciggy machine and sharing with my mates........kissing my first girlfriend.  All intermingled with the soundtrack of my life.  I could go on and on waxing lyrical about my early life.Don, your picture was a catalyst for all these sensations and thoughts in a cascade that has not stopped!  So, over to you to take on the mantle.Thank you all for entering.  They all had a certain thought provoking something for me, but Don out muscled you this time.Take it away Don.</blockquote>

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