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  • #1

    Vote For the November Cover

    Greetings Everyone:

    It is time to vote for the November 2009 Cover of the Authentic Campaigner.

    Please vote for the image that you feel is the most authentic. If your image is one of the final three, we require that you provide some background information about the inspiration or impression for the image in this thread.

    We encourage conversation about the impressions portrayed as well as any documentation that might be available that would add to the discussion. The intent of the selection process is to determine why you think one image is superior to another.

    Image #1 - Click here to view.
    Image #2 - Click here to view.
    Image #3 - Click here to view.

    Thanks to everyone who submitted. Good luck to the finalists.

    This poll will close in four days.
    300
    Image #1
    27.00%
    81
    Image #2
    39.00%
    117
    Image #3
    34.00%
    102

    The poll is expired.

    ERIC TIPTON
    Former AC Owner
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    Re: Vote For the November Cover

    it was a tough decision and it came down to not being a decision at all, I really loved both 1 and 2 equally as much and it came down to where I just needed to pick one and I picked 1. Both are stellar images.

    Number 3 is an AWESOME image, and I think one time Eric, we should do a special cover vote that is for nothing but civilian photos, think it would be neat.
    [CENTER]Yours with a jerk,
    Michael Kirby
    2009
    [COLOR="Green"]Fort Moultrie : STRANGER DANGER!
    Sharpsburg LH: Wrecking the Van (The Tripp Corbin Experience)
    Westville GA Work Weekend: SWAMP MONSTER![/COLOR]
    [COLOR="Blue"]Bummers
    [/COLOR]
    2010
    [COLOR="Blue"]Pt. Lookout Maryland LH
    Rivers Bridge Federal Campaigner Adjunct
    Backwaters 1865
    In The Van: Trailing Kirby Smith
    Before The Breakout
    Struggles of Secession[/COLOR][/CENTER]

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    • #3
      Re: Vote For the November Cover

      Going to have to stick with Mark.
      I enjoy this image for a number of reasons.
      To begin with it looks like a studio image which is VERY hard for people to pull off, military or civilian. Secondly the image is crystal clear and reflects technically a great studio plate. The glassware is original and it is being operated by a real, modern chemist who has heavily researched period chemistry. The woven wool table cloth and chair are great pieces of material culture which match the image. Enjoying the trimmed paletot, cravat and especially the hair which does not look like it was cropped with contemporary tools and is equally oiled and combed in a period method. Marks pose to me is reminiscent of those I see in, "Dressed for the Photographer," and such books. Tis No.3 for me.
      Drew

      "God knows, as many posts as go up on this site everyday, there's plenty of folks who know how to type. Put those keyboards to work on a real issue that's tied to the history that we love and obsess over so much." F.B.

      "...mow hay, cut wood, prepare great food, drink schwitzel, knit, sew, spin wool, rock out to a good pinch of snuff and somehow still find time to go fly a kite." N.B.

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      • #4
        Re: Vote For the November Cover

        Gotta vote for Image #3! Mark and his material culture in this image are simply stunning. Authentic Civilians represent! : )
        [FONT="Book Antiqua"]Kate Egner
        Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society[/FONT]

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        • #5
          Re: Vote For the November Cover

          Liked number one. Some of them fellars though remind me of me; a bit too "weighty" to be believable. Then again, the two gentlemen sitting on the right seem "spot on".
          My only issue with number three is I wished his hair were a bit longer and over the ears. Too nit-picky? Perhaps. That's just me. Enjoyed number two the most. Really caught my eye when I first looked at it. I will say this though, the way they are equipped seems more of a "studio shot" opportunity than an "in the field" image. That being said, they are ALL better than what I submitted; which was nothing.

          Cheers!
          John Marler
          Franklin, TN

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          • #6
            Re: Vote For the November Cover

            Close vote so far. Some good choices this month.
            ERIC TIPTON
            Former AC Owner

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            • #7
              Re: Vote For the November Cover

              " bit too "weighty" to be believable. "

              Thanks for calling me a fat ass!
              Nathan Hellwig
              AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
              "It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First Missouri

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              • #8
                Re: Vote For the November Cover

                (sigh) they say the ambrotype always adds 10 pounds...

                I will freely admit to needing to lose a pesky 10 pounds or so, though I would like to plaintively point out that part of the appearance of girth is my overstuffed coat pocket, which appears as a bulky tumor just above my belt on the left side.

                [end excuse]

                I have voted for one of the others in order that fewer innocents might have to gaze upon my rotundity.
                Last edited by Arch Campbell; 10-26-2009, 09:36 AM. Reason: mistake
                Arch Campbell
                Hairy Nation
                Loyal Union League
                Past Master of Martin Lodge #624, GL of Iowa AF & AM

                "Secessionists and Rebel Traitors desiring a fight can be accomodated[sic]on demand." -David Moore

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                • #9
                  Re: Vote For the November Cover

                  Well Arch I guess we could go to fat camp together. What a weekend I have had. First the 10th Ia crap now this.

                  I love my hobby!
                  Nathan Hellwig
                  AKA Harrison "Holler" Holloway
                  "It was the Union armies west of the Appalachians that struck the death knell of the Confederacy." Leslie Anders ,Preface, The Twenty-First Missouri

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                  • #10
                    Re: Vote For the November Cover

                    Hey Eric...I think that there might be something in the code on the poll that causes it to sometimes jump over to this thread for some reason. It looks like a couple people have had issues as they have posted there too.

                    Authentic Campaigner
                    http://www.authentic-campaigner.com/forum/showthread.php?p=161075#post161075


                    It did the same thing to me..If it has been addressed feel free to delete this.
                    [SIZE=0]PetePaolillo
                    ...ILUS;)[/SIZE]

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                    • #11
                      Re: Vote For the November Cover

                      OK, fellers...

                      Don't beat yourselves up too much over the weight thing:


                      :tounge_sm


                      (Also, there are glimpses here at some inspiriation for my Fed officer impression. :wink_smil )
                      John Wickett
                      Former Carpetbagger
                      Administrator (We got rules here! Be Nice - Sign Your Name - No Farbisms)

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                      • #12
                        Re: Vote For the November Cover

                        #3 is great.......quite authentic and very plausible subject.
                        Bud Scully 13th NJ Co.K Mess and 69th NY (N-SSA)

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                        • #13
                          Re: Vote For the November Cover

                          Well Arch I guess we could go to fat camp together. What a weekend I have had. First the 10th Ia crap now this.
                          Holler, I feel for you. Don't worry about the 10th Iowa. Just get your back healed up. You will hear nothing from me. You told us about this a while back. I saw this thread and a post on Facebook and figured you were having a bad run of things. Hang in there man.

                          Pete, I don't know why it is re-directing to a different thread. Looks like a software glitch that I cannot fix.
                          ERIC TIPTON
                          Former AC Owner

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                          • #14
                            Re: Vote For the November Cover

                            Courtesy of the Liberty Rifles site..

                            There is a 'Weighty' Officer to right of image..
                            Attached Files
                            [FONT="Georgia"][B][I][U]Ken Pettengale[/U][/I][/B][/FONT]
                            [I]Volunteer Company, UK[/I]


                            "You may not like what you see, but do not on that account fall into the error of trying to adjust it to suit your own vision of what it ought to have been."
                            -- [I][B]George MacDonald Fraser[/B][/I]

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                            • #15
                              Re: Vote For the November Cover

                              Arch and Holler,
                              Don't feel bad, I missed this picture because I was at the General Store getting candy. Yeah...a real operating general store...at an event.
                              Patrick Landrum
                              Independent Rifles

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