Re: [Leica] i get no respect....

[Harrison Mcclary <harrison@mcclary.net>]

once upon a time Kyle Cassidy wrote:


> 
> i was about to get wiggy on 'em and start doing the leica dance on their
> heads but they looked like some serious bruisers so i figured i'd shut up.

Kyle you should have realized you were in trouble when you saw the
www.schwartz.whateverthehellitsays.com on the podium.

Seriously, in my dealings lately with newsies they seem to have gotten more
surly than I remember being when I was shooting news in atlanta 8 years ago.
Even though we competed and such we all hung out together regardless of
affiliation or equipment or "status", status being defined by how large the
outlet you were shooting for.  Only one guy I new, and unfortunately worked
with, was rude to people he considered less than himself...meaning if it was
someone who looked like they were working at a smaller paper or whatever he
had an attitude.  But most of us were all a group that hung together and we
even let some of the TV guys hang, just not the talking heads as they were
generally too vain.

But here lately they all seem to have that huge ego attitude.  About two
years ago I was shooting a football game at Western Kentucky University and
was talking with one of the students shooting the game.  He was a real
arrogant jerk.  Guess he thought he was better than me cause he had the new
EOS1n/400 2.8 MKII AF lens and I had an old F1 and manual focus 400 2.8.
Maybe my lens was old but I had made photos with it at 2 world series
tournaments, the super bowl, the masters and other national news events to
numerous to recall.  IF he is lucky he will get to do half of what I had
done by age 28...and here he is acting arrogant to me.  Shit if anyone ever
asks me for a reference on him I'll be too glad to say he is a jerk.

> (sigh)
> 
> anybody else get snubbed by the other reindeer cause of their camera?

Once when I was covering the damage caused by a Tornado that hit downtown
Nashville a few years ago one of the AP guys said something to the effect
"You shooting those silent cameras."  But that was said in jest as I had
been kidding with him about shooting digital and I was shooting chrome.  We
knew each other from my time with the wires in Atlanta.

> kc
> 
> (oh, p.s., before this starts a huge meaningless thread that won't die
> and somehow ends up as a discussion of gun calibur's during WWII

.50 caliber


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