Smile please, you're on canvas

[barnstormer1968]

Airborne Artist, check your pm's

[NutLoose]

Perhaps the money would have been better spent providing them all with a chair....

I also find it quite amusing as they have gone to all this trouble to portray a "briefing in Afghanistan" and the Mail has then gone and cropped

18 General Wardak (Afghan Defence Minister)

Out of the Picture...... Surely one of the main players in the briefing portrait, focusing one with a sense of purpose for the image in the first place.

[jindabyne]

If this was a posed photograph, it could be severely and rightly criticised for lack of composition alone. Surely this must be a joke, but if it really is a commissioned work of art, then it is an appalling waste of money. IMHO of course.

[Warmtoast]

I also find it quite amusing as they have gone to all this trouble to portray a "briefing in Afghanistan" and the Mail has then gone and cropped 18 General Wardak (Afghan Defence Minister) Out of the Picture

Not quite. Click on the enlarge tab on the DM's site and this is what you see:



Mind you as to value for money, there was an earlier thread back in January when it was revealed the MOD had spent a lot of money on paintings. See here:
http://www.pprune.org/military-aircr...funds-art.html

I think I prefer the group portrait rather than the £160,000 spent on a set of paintings by Zil Hoque called Nimbus I, II, III, IV.

This is one of them:

[c130jbloke]

Still looks like a craps table in the middle

[swampy_lynx_puke]

1. The MoS states it is focussed on Helmand, the briefer is actually pointing to Zabul.
2. There are 12 UK officers in the room together with 6 from other nations, not a proper reflection of the 37 (as stated by MoS, now 41) nation coalition that is ISAF.
3. With the exception of the US Officer in position 7 the foreigners appear distanced from the business at hand, implying UK domination of key decision making processes.
It is a classic reflection of the UK's totally myopic vision of Afghanistan in that ISAF success is dependant upon success in Helmand province and the British contribution.
IMHO this portrayal is rather unfair with regard to Gen Richards and the ARRC as they achieved a great deal in improving the cohesion within ISAF and tried to progress the security mission across the whole of Afghanistan - not just in Helmandshire.
No wonder the ARRC mess doesn't want to pay for it!

[Zoom]

...he and his staff at work...

Not much of that going on by the look of it. Skivers.