An inelegant smudge

[martin butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

In what sense does it remind you of that famous bronze?  Are you referring to the first raising, the second raising or the controversy about whether the photographic image was a staged shot?  The wikipedia article about the battle for Iwo Jima http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima covers these possibilities.

Martin

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Reluctant though I am to inflict such an inelegant smudge on you, the below murky squealing blob was snapped late afternoon (Campbell Park again, I’m afraid) and later resolved itself, if that phrase is not too much of an exaggeration, into no less than 4 fledgling D Firetails importuning a parent.   The frozen tableau reminds me for some reason of the well-known bronze of the marines raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima.  A breeding record anyway.