Apocalypse Now.

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    Walt Jabsco, Rhys Jones Photography, and 3 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. Shadyezz 70 months ago | reply

      Clever work Anni :-)

    2. Rhys Jones Photography 70 months ago | reply

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Picture Pages (Post 1 Comment on 2), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

      Getting to put out some very good work Anni!

    3. annicariad 70 months ago | reply

      Thanks Steve!

      Rhys, I am flattered by your invitation, but I'm extremely time poor at the moment and not joining any groups....I simply haven't the time to comment on pics other than my regular contacts. Thank you anyway, it's nice of you to think of me.

    4. FrAcTuReD...fOtOs 70 months ago | reply

      OK, toss out those drugs Anni!! Just joshin. As I remember..a heavy movie.

    5. annicariad 70 months ago | reply

      Heavy movie, yes, Jeff, but nowhere near as heavy as the real thing, the footage coming out of Iraq shows us that. We learn nothing from our mistakes, though, just keep repeating them over and over in different countries. War is so good for profits, maybe it'll never stop while there are billions to be made from the sale of arms, supplying the troops and re-constructing the infa-structures we destroy.

    6. KerryHalasz 70 months ago | reply

      I agree with you, Anni. Why don't we ever learn???

    7. Rob.Hudson 70 months ago | reply

      Actually these came out really beautifully where the frames change. Stunning and atmospheric and your own interpretation on this masterwork.

      Clever girl!

    8. MarkieG 70 months ago | reply

      I love this treatment Anni. What a memorable movie.
      Before all these Viet Nam movies came out, I was working in LA with a band and one day a young good looking guy in his mid to late twenty's turned up to help. He worked with us for a week in the studio doing all kinds of jobs, but never ever spoke a word to anybody! One day when he didn't show I asked my friend where he was and was told that he had just got back from Viet Nam and was pretty screwed up. He went out for dinner the night before, someone upset him and went to punch him and Tony (that was his name) killed the guy with one blow, and then sat back down again to finish his food. The police arrived and arrested him for murder.
      Of course this was in 1969/70 and we didn't have a clue of what those young guys were going through.

    9. annicariad 70 months ago | reply

      Thanks Kerry, there's a lot I could say on the subject, maybe this is not the right forum for it though, I'll let my pictures do the talking!

      Thanks Rob, i was surprised how they turned out too.

      Mark, that's a hell of a story, and one that was all too common, I'm afraid. The AVERAGE age was 19 years for those boys, very many were younger. I have no idea what really went on, but I suspect that in a lot of cases, it was a lot worse than any film could portray. Thanks for your visit and comment.

    10. Jumpin'Jack 70 months ago | reply

      Oh, wow!
      But how
      (...did you shoot those choppers)??

      All this needs is some Wagner playing in the background...

      Or, even better, good ol'e Dylan:

      Come you masters of war
      You that build the big guns
      You that build the death planes
      You that build all the bombs
      You that hide behind walls
      You that hide behind desks
      I just want you to know
      I can see through your masks

      You that never done nothin'
      But build to destroy
      You play with my world
      Like it's your little toy
      You put a gun in my hand
      And you hide from my eyes
      And you turn and run farther
      When the fast bullets fly
      ...

    11. sandcastlematt 70 months ago | reply

      This is really cool - I wonder how you did this Anni? And I totally agree with your views on war, as well as your thoughts about flickr groups - I've become terrible at keeping up with my contacts, let alone joining new groups, too! I really like this series and its message, though - it deserves wider recognition.

    12. DS Williams 70 months ago | reply

      "In the months after I got back the hundreds of helicopters I'd flown in began to draw together until they formed a collective meta-chopper, and in my mind it was the sexiest thing going; saver-destroyer, provider-waster, right hand-left hand, nimble, fluent, canny and human, hot steel, grease, jungle-staurated canvas webbing, sweat cooling and warming up again, cassette rock and roll in one ear and door-gun fire in the other, fuel, heat , vitality and death, death itself, hardly an intruder"

      Michael Herr, Dispatches.

      (Who was the co-writer of Apocalypse Now)

    13. annicariad 70 months ago | reply

      Thank you, DS...one of my favourite books...........

      Name This Book!

      Looking forward to Saturday.......

    14. Badger Badger Studios 69 months ago | reply

      Love this photo (and the one above too, so a double-whammy going on here :o)

    15. annicariad 69 months ago | reply

      Thanks, Tom. DS Williams loaned me two books by Tim Page, Vietnam photographer, well worth getting out of the library if you can, amazing work.

    16. Ducatirider - 69 months ago | reply

      "In war there are no unwounded soldiers" Jose Norosky

      --
      Seen in your Apocalypse Now set. (?)

    17. Runny Sandhu 67 months ago | reply

      thanx. Anni nd Markie, for sharing ur valuable knowledge!!

      wats the value of human life?? does anyone cares for that??

    18. Mr Grays view of life 53 months ago | reply

      I remember viewing these a while ago now but refrained from comment on these amazing goose bumping images,
      We used to be ferried around N.Ireland in similiar choppers and the noise these things make is deafening,but not loud enough so you cant hear your heart pounding in your chest like a jackhammer because your shit scared that today is the day your going to die,

      Very strong images Anni, As for the film I could never really make my mind up.

    19. annicariad 53 months ago | reply

      Thank you, Steve. i found your comment very humbling; it's all very well for the likes of me, sitting in the safety of my home, pontificating about the rights and wrongs of war fare, when there are people out there, yourself included, who have actually lived the fear. Please take a look at my friend, Paul Crispin (Ducatirider) sets on Northern Ireland, they are superb. (Sorry, I don't know how to post a link to his page, but you can click on his image above.)

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