Do I remember rightly that R is a runner? Did she do the 10K?
As much as I usually am partial to B&W, I actually am drawn (slightly) more to yesterday’s color than today’s image. Something about how those colors in bits and flashes just seemed to capture the motion. And given the vagaries that different monitors bring into play, I thought the banner looked weathered more than any other description I’d have considered. I don’t remember per se what film had blues that looked like those, but that’s what it looked like to me. I never thought film was all that “realistic”, but I thought that image captured much of what made/makes it so pleasing. If it was experiment, I thought it worked quite well, just a trifle better given the complexity of the subject matter, than the documentary quality of this black and white.
You know, I went back to the original file of that colour shot and realized that the banner blue, as originally captured, is pretty close in shade to my processed version. But, I want to give the whole topic a rest, so…
And no, film is not realistic. That’s what many people forget. Film is emotive, not factual. And in being so, it becomes “more real than real”. How’s that for mind-blowing? But, I digress…
I agree with you about liking that first image for its colour. For me, it really did capture the emotion of being there.
Prosophos 
Do I remember rightly that R is a runner? Did she do the 10K?
As much as I usually am partial to B&W, I actually am drawn (slightly) more to yesterday’s color than today’s image. Something about how those colors in bits and flashes just seemed to capture the motion. And given the vagaries that different monitors bring into play, I thought the banner looked weathered more than any other description I’d have considered. I don’t remember per se what film had blues that looked like those, but that’s what it looked like to me. I never thought film was all that “realistic”, but I thought that image captured much of what made/makes it so pleasing. If it was experiment, I thought it worked quite well, just a trifle better given the complexity of the subject matter, than the documentary quality of this black and white.
You know, I went back to the original file of that colour shot and realized that the banner blue, as originally captured, is pretty close in shade to my processed version. But, I want to give the whole topic a rest, so…
And no, film is not realistic. That’s what many people forget. Film is emotive, not factual. And in being so, it becomes “more real than real”. How’s that for mind-blowing? But, I digress…
I agree with you about liking that first image for its colour. For me, it really did capture the emotion of being there.
—Peter.