[Leica] USA politics

[rclark01 at comcast.net (rclark01@comcast.net)]

Thanks to Jim Shulman's dinners and get togethers, many of us had the 
wonderful experience and priveledge of meeting Sal and hearing his stories. 
Today, I am missing Sal. Thanks for posting, Kyle.

Robert

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu> 

> 
> I'm hoping to see lots of great photos of politicians now that the season 
> they 
> strut around for our photo-practice has arrived. 
> 
> The first time I met the admirable Sal DiMarco was at a political event. 
> I'd 
> just gotten kicked out of the crowd for looking too much like a 
> professional (it 
> was the Domke vest) and was sent forlornely to the back of the hall where 
> the 
> press riser was. As I grumbled with my 80mm f 1.8 jupiter lens, standing 
> now a 
> good 200 feet away, one of the reporters looked down and said "Hey! It's 
> Kyle 
> Cassidy!" and rushed over and gave me a hug. It was Sal, whom I'd never 
> met 
> before. I lamented that I only had a short lens and he said "That's no 
> problem, 
> hold on," and he flagged down a staffer and said "This reporter and I need 
> to go 
> up to the photo pit!" -- and she escorted us up to the very front where I 
> proceeded to take very lousy photos. 
> 
> But I met Sal DiMarco, and my world was never the same again. He took a 
> Leica 
> red dot out of his wallet and stuck it on my Nikon. "Now you're fit for 
> polite 
> society," he said. 
> 
> 
> 
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