Name:
Danny Jackson
Email:
d.jackson@wigan-leigh.ac.uk
Comment:
Hi, my name is Danny Jackson & I’m the photography technician at Wigan & Leigh College, Manchester.
I’m hoping that you may be able to help me. I’m looking for someone who could possibly come into college as a guest speaker & talk to our students about Navel / Military photography to our students? In the past, we’ve had guest speakers talk about sport, pet, landscape & portrait photography, but I know a couple of our students are interested in the forces (army, navel, etc) & I think they’d really benefit from seeing & hearing from someone who has been there & done it. I know our other students would also enjoy seeing that style / genre of photography, that can be captured while serving too.
Our students are all level 3 photography students, so by the time they go to University, they are more than capable of holding their own & stand out from the other students on the university courses. We’ve always had a strong reputation in our photography department, for having a high success rate with our students. I’m hoping that a free brew & some biscuits will be enough to persuade a member of your photography personal team, to come into college & talk to our students about the life of being a photographer in the forces, as well as showcasing & demonstrating the standard of images you take while serving, the locations you visit, funny story’s, as well as the serious side to it all. If the serviceperson has been to university, they could tell our students about their time there.
Any help in this matter would be very much appreciated & I’ll look forward to your reply.
Kind regards
Danny Jackson
Danny, Much as I would like to help you out I live in western Canada. Also, I am not even close to the calibre of your students. I do have a fair sized collection of RCAF photography. It was my father’s who flew Mustangs during WWII. His was an army-co-operation squadron in that they flew predominantly reconnaissance roles for the army intelligence. The grain size of the photographs is quite amazing and a lot of detail can be seen with a magnifying glass.
Much of the collection is memorabilia (I do have 3 of the pilots’ logbooks digitized) but I also have over 200 original reconnaissance photographs that my Dad managed to hold onto after he was made the Operations Liaison Office after he was shot down during the Dieppe raid (Operation Jubilee). He survived a ditching in the sea just off of the Dieppe harbour.
If you are at all interested there is a good description of that particular sortie on the internet.
Good luck with your search for a knowledgeable speaker
Best regards,
Christopher C. (Chris) Clarke, P. Eng. 552 Dalmeny Hill NW Calgary, AB, Canada, T3A 1T6
(403) 286 3524 or (403) 804 1557 cell chris_clarke@shaw.ca
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