[Leica] Photographing The Winter Olympics

[Sonny Carter]

Friday Flowers is a subject one chooses after he’s been a sports journalist shooting literally hundreds of ball games, prize fights, and horse races, also shootouts in projects, all alarm fires on Christmas Day, and boat rides with hundreds of refugees aboard.  Friday Flowers every week without a miss for close to two decades.  Let’s see, which would I rather at this point in my career?   Skiing uphill with forty pounds of gear in single digits cold or shooting Flowers in Louisiana?

SonC



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> On Feb 27, 2018, at 1:14 PM, Ted Grant via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bob,
> Well Bob that's the sort of a dedicated sport photojournalist went through
> for several months before leaving for the Olympic's otherwise after the
> first day or two you were just beat from carrying gear, on and off buses,
> editing film every day and the long hours of some days between travelling
> from Press Centre to game site you could be on the road 16 hours day after
> day.
> Covering the games certainly isn't shooting a "FRIDAY FLOWER"  it's
> generally in the 16 hours a day moving about, carrying gear and hopefully
> you'll be able to capture a successful shooting position where there are a
> couple hundred guys and gals fighting for one at a finishline of a race!.
> :-(
> And doing it for around 3 weeks. But what the heck if you didn't love being
> involved you could always stay home and shoot those crappy weddings every
> weekend!!!  :-)
> cheers,
> Dr. ted grant O.C. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Robert Baron via LUG
> Sent: February-26-18 10:48 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Cc: Robert Baron
> Subject: [Leica] Photographing The Winter Olympics
> 
> Although this may be behind a paywall if you can read it I think it is
> interesting and it certainly gives us more appreciation of what Senior
> Member Prof. Dr. Ted OC went through back in the day:
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/insider/from-the-white-house-to-the-slope
> s-a-times-photographers-olympic-trials.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&mod
> ule=timesinsider&region=c-column-bottom-span-region
> 
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