[Leica] RETROSPECT 46

[Alan Magayne-Roshak]

 On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 Bill Clough <billclough042541 at gmail.com>wrote:

   >Every Friday night the evening staff at the Houston Chronicle would be
>assigned to photograph two different high school football games. You
>photographed the first quarter of one game, then rushed to the second game
>and photographed its third quarter. It didn?t take long for every picture
>to start looking like every other football photograph.

   >I decided to try something different. I proudly brought this picture to
>the sports desk.

   >?I can?t use this,? the sports editor shouted. ?There?s no way the
>mother of that quarterback can recognize him.?

>It was never published; but it seemed to me to represent all high school
>football games every where, every time.


>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Friday+night+football_+Houston_+Texas_October_+1972+___+01214jpg.jpg.html
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Friday+night+football_+Houston_+Texas_October_+1972+___+01214jpg.jpg.html>


>?Bill
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Well done!  I don't like sports, but I like this photo a lot.
-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amr3 at uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/

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