Take the ....... photograph
JF
Yup, or copious amounts of ibuprofen blunts the edge!
Dctyke
I agree, that RAF photogs don't plan to mess people about. But the thing is, if there was a well executed plan then the Duke would not be getting grumpy. Poor show on the RAF team that missed the opportunity to swoosh HRH for a quick photo with his '4 score years and 10' veteran buddies, before getting on with the rest of the day. For ceremonial duties, prior planning prevents p!ss poor performance (and some will need to p!ss quite regularly at their age!).
LJ
Yup, or copious amounts of ibuprofen blunts the edge!
Dctyke
I agree, that RAF photogs don't plan to mess people about. But the thing is, if there was a well executed plan then the Duke would not be getting grumpy. Poor show on the RAF team that missed the opportunity to swoosh HRH for a quick photo with his '4 score years and 10' veteran buddies, before getting on with the rest of the day. For ceremonial duties, prior planning prevents p!ss poor performance (and some will need to p!ss quite regularly at their age!).
LJ
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The BoB veterans, whose day it was, are roughly the same age as Phil but no mention made of any discomfort they may have also felt by the photo shoot taking too long. It would be nice to believe Phil was cursing at the photographer on their behalf
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'Someone' at the event fouled up.
That someone should have had the guests all in perfect position just as the 'Greek-one' walked in and for him to immediately plonk himself down ready for photo-man to utter those famous 2 words, 'say cheese'.
All photo-man needed to do in the preliminaries was frame his shot and set the focus, ready to click when Stavros immediately sat down and smiled in response to, 'say cheese'.
Someone should by now have had words of wisdom spelt out to them by that helicopter pilot from Newark, and who was sat next to Phil.
Elementary project management. Or not in this case
That someone should have had the guests all in perfect position just as the 'Greek-one' walked in and for him to immediately plonk himself down ready for photo-man to utter those famous 2 words, 'say cheese'.
All photo-man needed to do in the preliminaries was frame his shot and set the focus, ready to click when Stavros immediately sat down and smiled in response to, 'say cheese'.
Someone should by now have had words of wisdom spelt out to them by that helicopter pilot from Newark, and who was sat next to Phil.
Elementary project management. Or not in this case
Err No, you seem to have missed the point that the chaps you would have standing ready and at the whim of Stavros are probably older than Stavros.
Concur - busy people still working at 94 are allowed a certain level of grumpiness and need to be stage managed so their creaking bodies can cope.
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Same thought, at same time Gouldie 
