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Wrecked Canabalized PBY How Photos Influenced Me


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A great photo i happened to find.

 

Love how souvenir pieces of aircraft skin have been cut out.

 

Imagine all the trench art and sweetheart pieces made.

 

Just knowing that kind of information from just looking at this picture is what I love about photos.

 

I've been studying photos since I was a little boy of 8.

 

Always wanted to know what was in the picture, which led to more study.

 

And that's how photos influenced me.

 

Hope you enjoy this one as much as I do.

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Photos were my first love in as much as collecting goes. I have always thought of it as a window into the past and the details in the background add so much more to the image! Love the one you posted!

 

Mike

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Hi Mike,

 

"A collector of photographs" just about sums it up.

 

Photos and painting soldiers really got me going.

 

Thank you for understanding.

 

Peter

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Hi Mike,

 

"A collector of photographs" just about sums it up.

 

Photos and painting soldiers really got me going.

 

Thank you for understanding.

 

Peter

 

Peter

 

Probably (one) of the basis of my addiction as well.

 

Spent hours turning pages in books.Always drawn to the photo and the story it told.

 

Many long nights and cold winters looking at books from the local and school library....only if we had the sources the internet offers now for picture.When I was a boy people would ask me who were much older at shows and auctions how I knew what a certain item was.I would say I look at books and read.Was at times comical when a 40 something would show a 12-13 year old an item at a show and ask if it was real or WW2/WW1 etc.They were more into Civl war,Indian War etc we all learned from each other.

 

One book I near wore out was from one of my favorite photographers Davis Douglas Duncan...War With Out Heroes was a book that captivated me.Duncan was a former Marine in WW2 and his works on Korea and Vietnam were stark reality.I finally sourced a copy of the War With Out Heroes many years ago.Had been a hard one to find at the time.

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For some reason, photographs of Lincoln have fascinated me since I was little. And still do.. Not saying others don't, but Lincoln especially.

 

Mikie

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manayunkman

Ron,

 

My dad had a collection of military history books.

 

Being from The Netherlands many of them were about WW2 and in Dutch but full of pictures.

 

I went to school in NYC when I was 10 and 11.

 

Some days I would walk home or walk part of the way so I could stop at The Soldier Shop on Madison Avenue.

 

It was a very high end militaria store with a model soldier department.

 

I was just a kid and felt very uncomfortable there but I got over that because I wanted to see what was inside.

 

My dad lived under Nazi occupation and captured the experience in hundreds pictures he drew which I discovered when I was 8.

 

I couldn't believe that the Germans just rolled over Europe.

 

So I already had an interest in how the Germans conquered Europe.

 

Over the years I bought many books from the Soldier Shop.

 

Somewhere between 10 and 12 I started painting the models I built.

 

I started building German tanks which led to painting the figures.

 

Scale Modler magazines were full of pictures.

 

The need for uniform reference led to books on German uniforms, hard to find in the late 60s as a kid.

 

Those books led to the German Verlag books which were filled with pictures.

 

One day I finished building a Monogram Sturmgeschutz in a little reloading diorama.

 

My dad had just got home from work with his train ( my dad took the train to work ) buddy Col. Robb when I brought in my lattest creation.

 

The first thing Col. Robb said was I have a German helmet like the one in your model do you want it?

 

Colonel Robb had dozens of WW2 US Army picture history books published by the government.

 

I spent hours looking through those.

 

When I found the PBY photo for less than a dollar it was a no brainer.

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manayunkman

Mikie,

 

Good to see you.

 

In 1966 a friend of my dad's gave me a framed photo of young Lincoln without his beard.

 

It was a copy from the original in the NBC archives.

 

I have no idea what happened to it.

 

Original photos of Lincoln are worth a ton.

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