S Club Girl

This is Charlotte, one of the latest recruits to our S Club, posing beside her beautiful Bermuda Blue Honda S2000 in the Super Sausage carpark. For a number of reasons it made me think of John Hinde and The Red Shirt School Of Photography, which became popular in the 1950s, initially with National Geographic photographers.

Firstly Charlotte is dressed in Bermuda Blue, a very vibrant colour. Secondly my mate Simon suggested that I photograph her and her car next to a bright yellow bike, blue and yellow being complementary colours. Thirdly Charlotte had a pole sticking out of the top of her head which I struggled to erase, I rarely manipulate my pics and am not very good at it. (I do like to up the saturation a bit though. :))

I don't use Photoshop but the idea is nothing new. John Hinde took pics for Butlin's postcards. He and members of The Red Shirt School believed in making their pics as vibrant as possible, often substituting Mediterranean skies for cloudy UK ones and introducing people with colourful clothes and items with colours complementary to the garments. Hinde used to carry a saw around with him to cut down rhododendron bushes to place in front of unsightly immoveable items in view.

Anyway, my daughter and I had brilliant fun on our Ricky Run. The outward leg was at a very steady pace as the roads were muddy and strewn with gravel and pebbles washed from the fields after the overnight cloudburst. The sun shone on us as we drove spiritedly back to Ricky. :)