Yesterday's Photo Post - Discrepencies and Mistakes....
It seems that there are some issues with my posted photo from yesterday and the information posted along with it.
For starters, various sources (including those that I linked in the text) give differing accounts of Huston Riley's unit at the time of the D-Day landings. Most sources give it as F Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, which is the data I posted.... therefore, unless I hear otherwise from a reliable source (such as Huston Riley himself), I will assume this is correct.
Secondly, a major goof on my part.... I was given a tip by Photogebirg that the entrenching tool clearly visible on the left side of the pack in my photo is a GERMAN entrenching tool. Yikes! Ok, yeah... I'm a bloody doofus. :-)
Additionally, the point was raised by both myself and Barcrawler prior to the shoot and others after I posted the photo that the overall "feel" of the photo would be greatly enhanced if we could incorporate debris and the German landing craft obstacles into the shot, as seen in the background of the Robert Capa photo.
So, all things taken together, let's consider the shoot from yesterday as a test run.... it still stands and will remain posted as a tribute to the the D-Day veterans. However, at some later time, I will be redoing this shot for purposes of the "official" shot in the WW2 Combat Photography Project.
(As a side note, several other shots from yesterday came out spectacular, and may be incorporated into the WW2 CPP as shots not based on existing photos. Watch for those in future postings....)
For starters, various sources (including those that I linked in the text) give differing accounts of Huston Riley's unit at the time of the D-Day landings. Most sources give it as F Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, which is the data I posted.... therefore, unless I hear otherwise from a reliable source (such as Huston Riley himself), I will assume this is correct.
Secondly, a major goof on my part.... I was given a tip by Photogebirg that the entrenching tool clearly visible on the left side of the pack in my photo is a GERMAN entrenching tool. Yikes! Ok, yeah... I'm a bloody doofus. :-)
Additionally, the point was raised by both myself and Barcrawler prior to the shoot and others after I posted the photo that the overall "feel" of the photo would be greatly enhanced if we could incorporate debris and the German landing craft obstacles into the shot, as seen in the background of the Robert Capa photo.
So, all things taken together, let's consider the shoot from yesterday as a test run.... it still stands and will remain posted as a tribute to the the D-Day veterans. However, at some later time, I will be redoing this shot for purposes of the "official" shot in the WW2 Combat Photography Project.
(As a side note, several other shots from yesterday came out spectacular, and may be incorporated into the WW2 CPP as shots not based on existing photos. Watch for those in future postings....)