Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tim wrote: >I recall Bill Allard saying he figured he only got about 2 "great/best" >shots a year. Some years maybe 1... :) He's an awesome photographer, and thank goodness someone else is looking over his shoulder so we get to see his images before they hit file 13 then. There was a National Geographic documentary i saw which followed him around recently. Amazing watching him work! Very fast, and very nimble guy perpetually sucking on a pipe. Half the time i was trying to keep up with him as he bounced around the framing of the camera that was following him. The other half i was busy wondering how he managed to take all those great photos, smoke simultaneously, and still manage not to have big puffs of smoke in front of his subjects :-) He also had an enormous amount of humility and passion for photography. I'd Llove to meet the guy one day, seemed like a great human being. All the best, Gary - -- "The difficulty now is that unexceptional adults believe the loss of youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during adolescence." OO The Uses of Disorder [_]<| Personal Identity and City Life -- Richard Sennett /|\ Gary Elshaw Post-Grad Film Student Victoria University New Zealand http://elshaw.tripod.com/ http://elshaw.tripod.com/photointro.html