[Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Leica Spot News Picture 1996

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

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Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> Rule number one, always have a camera available,  Capa'a rule number 1 get
> closer.  Great story and image.
>
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG <
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>
> > Back in 1996 I had just dropped my wife Kathryn at the airport for her
> New
> > York trip, and was going home when at a red light I saw a vehicle
> > on it's side a block away down a side street, the underside lit by the
> > morning sun. I drove over and took about ten pictures from a discrete
> > distance.
> > (I didn't want to be an aggressive photographer)  Feeling it was
> > newsworthy, I went downtown to the newspaper office and explained what I
> > had
> > shot.  They took my exposed film and told me they would develop it.  I
> knew
> > people there, since I had been a member of the Wisconsin News
> > Photographers Association since 1972.
> >
> > The next day I opened the paper to find my photo on page three.  This is
> > the frame that they picked.  All three victims are visible.
> > View LARGE
> > <
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/19960911_MR_SpotNews6775-2.jpg.html
> > >
> > Leica M3, 50mm f/2 Summicron collapsible, Tri-X  (Who needs a motor
> > drive?   ;^)
> >
> > The photo on page 3:
> > <
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/19960912_MR_SpotNewsPubl.jpg.html
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer, Emeritus
> > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
> > (Retired)
> > UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
> > UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
> > amagayneroshak at gmail.com
> > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>
> >
> > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> >  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> >
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> Don
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