A clean and Date for my Butchers please

[Maggie.]

Carole - when I was trying to get to sleep last night I was seeing floating black PIXELS when I closed my eyes 

Maggie

[robbo43]

The fence, which I think is "solid" not "picket", and the tree or whatever look fake - either a backdrop or painted on after - as does the pile of snow against the fence.  The foreground snow looks as though it has been chucked there and from deep at left peters out at the right edge.  Very theatrical.  But if military concert party, necessarily WW2, why not WWI, or the Russian Campaign or any one of those scrubby little actions that were never called wars?

Robert
And well done Maggie, good work and you had the courage to do it, which I don't have.

[Rabbit B]

The fence, which I think is "solid" not "picket", and the tree or whatever look fake - either a backdrop or painted on after - as does the pile of snow against the fence.  The foreground snow looks as though it has been chucked there and from deep at left peters out at the right edge.  Very theatrical.  But if military concert party, necessarily WW2, why not WWI, or the Russian Campaign or any one of those scrubby little actions that were never called wars?

Robert
And well done Maggie, good work and you had the courage to do it, which I don't have.

Hi Robert,

I am sure that your eyes are so much better then mine!  But it looked to me like a painted backdrop of a picket fence on material!

Now what is all this about you not having courage, what ever you do cannot be worse than mine can it!  Have a go.  So make a fool of yourself, everyone starts somewhere!

I only wish I was as good as the others, but alas that will never happen!  For me!  You give in too easily!     Give it a go!

Some of us have to be on the bottom, to make the others look good!

You are right about Maggie, she is going to be really good among the tops I would say. 

Rabbit B 

[Maggie.]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for your nice words.  I really enjoyed doing it so why don't you have a go?

Hi Rabbit,

That's a lot to live up to!  I think it will be a slow learning curve - so far I can only clone in black & white

Maggie 

[PaulaToo]

What a fascinating photo and what good restores.
Well done Rabbit, you're getting good.
Maggie, welcome and very well done. Keep going.

So what can I see in the picture...so many contradictions it's unbelievable....
Butchers? Nah, wrong implements.
Grocers? could be...
Why the musical instrument though?

Got to be a musical trio, it's been said, like a Barber's Quartet.
Perhaps they wanted their photo taken and the light was bad indoors so they went out into the cold cold snow....
The barn looks very real, the snow looks slushy, the fence looks like a barrier fence not a picket.

OK so they went out into the cold slushy snow to have their photo taken...problem solved...no it isn't because the light is very bright and by the shadows seems to be coming from fairly low down...now that ain'nt right.

If it's theatrical the clothes could have come out of the dressing up box so they won't help with a date. Hairstyles might...and I don't mean the wonky catapiller the bloke has under his nose.

[Rabbit B]

Hi Paula,
 Excellent as always, not really sure what you are trying to say about it though?  Thanks for the very undeserved compliment by the way, I appreciate that.

But are you in the realms of the theatrical?  I am not sure!
That is a false tash if ever I saw one!

Rabbit B 

[PaulaToo]

Hi Rabbit,
Yup, I'm going for the theatrical, including the mustdash..ooops sorry moustache...
But I think the barn looks too darned good to be a stage set...
So my guess is a singing trio who went outside to have their photy took.
The only thing that worries me about that idea is the angle of the light, it seems too low for natural.

[PaulaToo]

...oh....and the chap on the left looks as though he has his trousers tucked in his socks, probably didn't want them to get snow on them and get wet like the others...

[Maggie.]

Thanks for the welcome and the encouraging words, Paula - much appreciated  .

Rabbit - Paula's compliment is certainly deserved, you are very hard on yourself.

To add my two pennarth into the discussion and having been closely involved with the pic for most of yesterday, I think its theatrical and that fence is solid but not real.  The lighting is odd and as has been said before the aprons are brand new, fresh out of the packets and still creased.  Whatever it is that they are up to I think they are enjoying themselves.

Maggie