Vote For The AC Cover

[Eric Tipton]

AC Members:

Vote for the image you think should be on the first "cover" of the Authentic Campaigner. Review the images by clicking on each image link:

Image #1

Image #2

Image #3

Image #4
Image #5
Image #6

NOTE: Chris, only one of your submissions was selected. I should have specified - one per person. I went ahead and added one of Robert's submissions, because my trigger finger was too slow. If you have any ideas to improve the contest for next month, feel free to post them in this thread.

The poll is set up to automatically close five days from the time of this post - Friday, September 3rd at 12:42 AM. Good luck and may the best image win.

[amazingkenneth]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

Hello,
All are great but I liked number #5 and then #6

Thanks,
K.J. Reihl

AC Members:

Vote for the image you think should be on the first "cover" of the Authentic Campaigner. Review the images by clicking on each image link:

Image #1

Image #2

Image #3

Image #4
Image #5
Image #6

NOTE: Chris, only one of your submissions was selected. I should have specified - one per person. I went ahead and added one of Robert's submissions, because my trigger finger was too slow. If you have any ideas to improve the contest for next month, feel free to post them in this thread.

The poll is set up to automatically close five days from the time of this post - Friday, September 3rd at 12:42 AM. Good luck and may the best image win.

[dedogtent]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

All six images are very good, this should be a close vote. This is a great idea Eric, it will give us a chance to see some of the members here looking their best and be alot of fun every month......

[Ken Cornett]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

Eric,

Are these pics for the cover in regards to the mag that Matt was talking about? Has that become a reality?

Ken Cornett
Buckeye Mess-GHTI
Mess #1

AC Members:

Vote for the image you think should be on the first "cover" of the Authentic Campaigner. Review the images by clicking on each image link:

Image #1

Image #2

Image #3

Image #4
Image #5
Image #6

NOTE: Chris, only one of your submissions was selected. I should have specified - one per person. I went ahead and added one of Robert's submissions, because my trigger finger was too slow. If you have any ideas to improve the contest for next month, feel free to post them in this thread.

The poll is set up to automatically close five days from the time of this post - Friday, September 3rd at 12:42 AM. Good luck and may the best image win.

[paulcalloway]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

Eric,

Are these pics for the cover in regards to the mag that Matt was talking about? Has that become a reality?

Ken Cornett
Buckeye Mess-GHTI
Mess #1

No, this is something we're doing here on the AC for our own purposes. It has nothing to do with Matt Caldwell's proposed publication

[Ken Cornett]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

Thanks Paul,

I thought that might be the case.

Ken Cornett
Buckeye Mess-GHTI
Mess #1

No, this is something we're doing here on the AC for our own purposes. It has nothing to do with Matt Caldwell's proposed publication

[billwatson]

5

Went for 5 instead of six simply because I'd had enough of the long hat cord fad a while back. :-) Both five and six went the farthest toward trying really, really hard to depict history, I thought.

What would be a fun adjunct to this hobby might be to try to recreate our own tableau de frieze (don't count on that spelling), ones we could "save" on film/digital and have little contests to see who captures some famous painting -- or period photograph -- the best. Fellows tried this a while back with the Confederates-marching-through-Frederick photo and I think there have been some others -- it is really tough trying to get the same results with period photos. And I know that in "Gettysburg" there was some fooling around trying to recreate "Prisoners from the Front" by Winslow Homer,

http://crh.choate.edu/english/salot/Prisoners%20at%20the%20Front.jpg

kind of like a movie Easter Egg, but I didn't think it came off particularly well. I don't envision the Reb in Winslow's painting being quite as ... ? mealy mouth? ... as the fellow in the movie played him. That guy looks like he is undaunted by capture. Here's another I've always thought would be fun to try to recreate http://www.portlandmuseum.org/hmr_1.jpg

or this

http://crh.choate.edu/english/salot/HomeSweetHome1863.jpg

What might appeal to folks: Go ahead and pick one of these six for now, to have something decent out there, but make it kind of like the Stanley Cup. Pick your "historic scene" for the 2005 website 'cover' and challenge us to compete to try to recreate it for the camera. Winner each year gets to be on the cover of the AC for a year, then be enshrined for eternity in a digitial archive?

Trying to get the competitive juices flowing in constructive ways... and have some fun. :-)

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: 5

Went for 5 instead of six simply because I'd had enough of the long hat cord fad a while back. :-)

Ironicaly we were hassling Evan about the hatcord at the time the image was taken. :baring_te

[Yellowhammer]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

If the objective here is pick the one that looks most like a period image, my vote is for #6.

If the objective is to just pick a favorite, I'm still going with #6 although I also very much liked the central figure in #5.

[DougCooper]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

This photo is an interesting image as it shows how a yellow trimmed Columbus Depot appears using a period camera. That's Ed Simms on the lower right and Yankee Bob Johnson lower left. Saw this one the first time on the Post Office Wall :wink_smil and it's got my vote.

[HOG.EYE.MAN]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

This photo is an interesting image as it shows how a yellow trimmed Columbus Depot appears using a period camera. That's Ed Simms on the lower right and Yankee Bob Johnson lower left. Saw this one the first time on the Post Office Wall :wink_smil and it's got my vote.

Mr. Dan Mercer sits in the lower middle with canteen in hand.

Good Photo Bob...

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

This photo is an interesting image as it shows how a yellow trimmed Columbus Depot appears using a period camera. That's Ed Simms on the lower right and Yankee Bob Johnson lower left. Saw this one the first time on the Post Office Wall :wink_smil and it's got my vote.

Actually Doug all of us have blue trimmed CDs. The guys standing in the back are Evan Jones (with the hatcord) and Randy Pierson.

[Eric Tipton]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

We have a winner - Image #6!

Congrats to Robert Johnson - a.k.a hireddutchcutthroat, whose image won by 44 votes. We will have the new cover up in the next couple of days. Thanks to everyone who submitted. We will be making some changes next month, including accepting more images. An announcement will be posted prior to next month's cover.

[hireddutchcutthroat]

Re: Vote For The AC Cover

A heart felt thank you to all of you that voted for our image. It is quite and honor especialy with the high caliber of the impresions in other images.