D-Day reenactment paratroops at Dunkeswell Aerodrome

[Stevenson Gawen]

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Good to see one of the RPF team reporting from this event. And so well too.

There’s something not quite authentic about the third one, but I just can’t put my finger on what it is!

 

[Peter Roberts]

Well done, Stevenson.
I've put up reenactment photos in the past and to be quite honest they've had a mixed reception.
You've emboldened me to post some more tomorrow.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

Good to see one of the RPF team reporting from this event. And so well too.

There’s something not quite authentic about the third one, but I just can’t put my finger on what it is!

Thanks Rob! The phones do make me chuckle...

Well done, Stevenson.
I've put up reenactment photos in the past and to be quite honest they've had a mixed reception.
You've emboldened me to post some more tomorrow.

Thanks Peter. I'm not always all that enthusiastic about reenactments but this one is very real, in the sense that they are actually jumping out of vintage planes... Captured my imagination. But I think any reenactment can be very interesting from a photographic perspective... Post some!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

In these times of war who is fool enough to think of a re-enactment of a war scene to entertain the people?

 

[Gianluca Drago]

We need a re-enactment of a scene of peace.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

who is fool enough to think of a re-enactment of a war scene to entertain the people?

I see what you mean, and...

We need a re-enactment of a scene of peace.

I entirely agree.

Yet I think there's a kind of admiration for the bravery and the struggle for values held dear that has somehow separated from the actual horrendous conflict.

I don't know. I'm from a generation and a country that has seen no serious struggles, so I probably cannot claim any real opinion.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I don't know. I'm from a generation and a country that has seen no serious struggles, so I probably cannot claim any real opinion.

So far!!! I sincerely hope you never do.

 

[Stevenson Gawen]

So far!!! I sincerely hope you never do.

Me too.

 

[Beth Carter]

i always felt like reenactments were a living history exhibit, not necessarily for fun. i've been to a few civil war reenactments and a ww2 encampment (before the state park and them had a big falling out cause my state's park system sucks), the participants were always very knowledgeable of what they were representing. everything down to the tools they were using to how they made their meals.

 

[Peter Roberts]

Valid points, all of them.
I agree with Gianluca in that only the unthinking consider re-enactments as entertainment.
As Beth wisely says. re-enactments are living history staged in order to educate. And I speak as one speak as one who at one time participated as a home-front re-enactor and who has engaged with veterans who very much appreciate the effort put in.