Peter Roberts
Well-Known Member
Prompted by Bill's comments to my 'Accidental irony' post I thought of sharing this little effort that I put together years ago.
Picture Post was a weekly pictorial magazine that ran in the UK from 1938 to 1957. It was ground breaking in as much as it consisted of true photojournalism rather than merely using a few photographs to illustrate a story. The covers usually featured an eye-catching image especially chosen, perhaps even taken, with regard to the need to accommodate the Picture Post title banner in the top left corner.

Sorting through old negatives with a newly acquired scanner I came across this photo of my son coming down a vintage helter skelter in about 1990. It struck me that it had all the elements of a Picture Post cover.

A little bit of playing with simple tools (Picassa and the photo editor that came with the scanner) and I came up with this.

Crude and simplistic by today's standards but it served its purpose as a family joke, and still does.
Picture Post was a weekly pictorial magazine that ran in the UK from 1938 to 1957. It was ground breaking in as much as it consisted of true photojournalism rather than merely using a few photographs to illustrate a story. The covers usually featured an eye-catching image especially chosen, perhaps even taken, with regard to the need to accommodate the Picture Post title banner in the top left corner.

Sorting through old negatives with a newly acquired scanner I came across this photo of my son coming down a vintage helter skelter in about 1990. It struck me that it had all the elements of a Picture Post cover.

A little bit of playing with simple tools (Picassa and the photo editor that came with the scanner) and I came up with this.

Crude and simplistic by today's standards but it served its purpose as a family joke, and still does.