[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photos - 1969 to 2011 Award Winners

[Nathan Wajsman]

This reminds me of one of my favourite early photos:

https://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Stuff-from-the-20th-century/i-WPCbWs2/A

This was taken when I lived in Gainesville, FL, between 1984 and 1987, at a high school basketball game. The center going up trying to block the shot is  my youngest cousin Dan (today an anaesthesiologist in Oakland, CA). It was pure dumb luck that the opposing player had the same number as Dan.

This was during my pre-Leica days, most likely the photo was shot with a Pentax ME or Pentax Super Program SLR.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
photo at frozenlight.eu

http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
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> On 10 Mar 2023, at 23:05, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> I am a big fan of basketball. Other sports I can take or leave, but I pay attention to basketball.
> 
> The Harlem Globetrotters
> (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters )
> had a big star named Meadowlark Lemon.
> (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlark_Lemon )
> He was one of the very best basketball players of all time. He was so good that when he was getting ready to throw a ball through the hoop, he often did tricks like bouncing it between his legs, or shooting from behind his back, or bouncing it off his head, or spinning it on the end of his finger. He didn't just make great hoop shots. He made great hoop shots after doing extra things with the ball, just for fun.
> 
> These pictures that Alan has posted remind me of Meadowlark Lemon. Alan is so good at photography that he can do things that would confound the rest of us, and still get fabulous pictures. I don't think it would be good for a camera for the photographer to dribble it between his legs before shooting a picture behind his own back, but if it could work, I'm sure Alan Magayne-Roshak could do it.
> 
> If you haven't looked at every one of these pictures, you should.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Awards/
> 
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