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Before i even consider how much i like a photograph, it must pass the "chimpanzee test"

Could a chimpanzee have taken this photo, standing on the same spot with the same equipment.

The sad fact is most of the" popular" photos and the like in todays digital overload could have been taken by a chimpanzee.

A good photograph requires the inclusion of something that was not there before,an element in the story that only exists because the photograph exists.Created by the photographers knowledge experience and skill, plus every photographers secret weapon, luck

For stompers only, the best documentary i've seen in a long while.....http://www.modculture.co.uk/watch-it-bbc-culture-show-northern-soul-keep-the-faith/

CCC

I really enjoyed that, the passion of the presenters involvement , not typical BBC detachment.

I think this is the version of James Browns classic "There was a time" played toward the end of the program

Great pictures Angiud . There is something disconcerting seeing blood and perceived violence to the human body in almost posed studio quality pictures . Violence is usually fleeting and the camera generally only glimpses it in less than perfect conditions . They are a bit of a mind <deleted> to western sensibilities .

Thank you for the memories Sunshine, great shots.The Phnom Penh street shots of the unpaved roads and the fires really conjure up the atmosphere of the amazing place that was PP in the 90's.The only camera i had when i was there was the original Lomo, a fun little camera of the time but not worthy of the situation , all my pictures now lost and my memory going it was great to have a trigger to some great times .

shot with a phone through a dirty window - i think all the imperfections help make something different

It would be a problem if it does not show balance for past 3 months.

Sorry i should have mentioned i am doing a combined source of money , pension + balance.So the 3 month thing shouldn't apply.

My retirement extension is due and i have started getting my ducks in a row. I updated my bank pass book, the first time since last year, and it combined all of the transactions up until a month ago as one debit, with the code CMB [combined non book transaction] I don't have a problem with that, but knowing how anal immigration can be , i wonder has anybody had a problem with this. Logic would dictate, no problem, but we know that much of what goes on at immigration is not always logical.I can get backdated statements from my bank for 200 baht but it takes a few days and i don't want to do it if it is not necessary. Thankyou

The earth moved for me the first time i heard this ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHSURA2RCAQ

You are right Sustento in that the emerging NS scene you experienced at clubs like the Twisted Wheel etc in the late 60's must have evolved by the time it hit the ballrooms in the 70's.I can not imagine that spinning , jumping then splits type dancing being very comfortable in the generally cramped for space clubs we danced to soul in the 60's.

I really hope CCC is able to download the documentary on The Wheel as there is so very little visual stuff before the ballroom scene in the mid 70'S.

We'are actually talking about Northern Soul in the UK rather than the origins of the music that was played. In the 60s and early 70s there were a number of clubs in the English north and midlands where soul and Tamla became enormously popular. They were where the mods hung out.

Sorry if i'm being too pedantic about this, but dancing to soul and tamla and being a mod is not my understanding of the "Northern Soul" scene.People were doing that everywhere throughout Britain.What set the northern scene apart was the obsession with relatively unknown or obscure records that probably had never been released in the UK, that were from small record labels and had very limited exposure and few pressings.That coupled with a very particular rhythm and beat created the athletic type of dancing that was unique to this scene and made it different to what was going on elsewhere.Hence it getting a title all to itself.

Hi guys,some nice insights into the past, as someone who has never been part of The Northern Soul scene, i would like to add my tuppance worth.

I have been passionate about the music since hearing the stuff being produced in the Brill Building in New York in the early 60's [ The Shirreles and The Drifters] and at Chess in Chicago [Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters] Then came Motown and Stax and soul music was born.It was part of the great music genres of the 60's but i would say by the end of the 60's early 70's it was pretty much over and had morphed into funk, and people like Curtis Mayfield Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye were making "concept albums"

Although i grew up in Scotland ,and being a one man "soul clan" had never been easy, by the end of the 60's i was living in London and very much part of the southern scene.It is round about now that the germination of what is called Northern Soul takes place.The majority of "young dancers" in the south following the sound of Funk and Philadelphia while in the north,[ for reasons that are still unclear to me,] a passion for all the more obscure records from the past takes over That is not a value judgement,i'm just curious, is it down to one collector or DJ ??

A small point i wanted to make was that much of the music now classed as "northern soul" is just soul music and was enjoyed by all who were lucky enough to grow up in the sixties wherever they went to clubs, north, south,Scotland, Wales, New York,Amsterdam.Classics by the like of Willie Mitchel , Dobie Grey, Bob and Earl were just soul classics, although some of them may have been revived by northern scene.

At what point did you guys who were going to The Twisted Wheel, Wigan Casino etc actually realise you were part of something called Norther Soul as opposed to just going to dance your hearts out to great music, as the term was not coined until the early 70's by some guy who owned a Blues and Soul shop in London, as he needed a category to file all the obscure record labels that people from up north kept asking for. From my own experience of great scenes, from my very extended youth, i've usually noticed that once they are labelled by the media or the like that much of what made the whole thing great has gone. I've no idea if this was the case with NS and at what point the people who started it faded away, but i hear so many fond memories from the people who experienced it that i'm very sorry i missed it .By the early 70's i would be laying stoned in Kabul or Goa listening to psychedelia .

As this thread is about the joy of music and not semantics here is a great bit of gospel/soul ;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spVvzDhx6rY&list=FLadSHxdCY2P0-z2K36BC_yg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bQG8qFsACo&list=FLadSHxdCY2P0-z2K36BC_yg

From last year, not sure if it is a Canon or Nikon.

Thank you for that Bill,and i hope that you are continuing to enjoy your new camera .