Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks for the look, if I may what the hell has happened to "Roseanne" she looks like a prisoner of war or something! Cheers Wilber Steve LeHuray wrote: > > > > In a message dated 8/19/00 7:35:21 AM, austin@darkroom.com writes: > > > > << I guess I'm paying for this 'personal service', right? >> > > > > There's a long history of photographers in the White House -- usually for the > > president but it's a fairly sizeable staff. Many of us remember David Hume > > Kennerly's job as personal photographer to Gerald Ford -- he got > > unprecedented access to personal moments with the Fords when their guard was > > down. He was sort of a hero of photojournalists for awhile. He wrote a book > > about his career following that assignment -- "Shooter" I believe it was > > called. I'm sure with Gore running for president it's not a big stretch to > > assign one of the White House pool to him full time . . . > > > > Bob (enjoys presidential photography) McEowen > > > > For what its worth there are a lot of photographers taking pictures of our > leaders who are not on the taxpayers dime. Here is one of Tipper, > http://www.icommag.com/august-2000-page-24.html receiving a Exellence in > Photography award I took a couple months ago. The color shots were Nikon > w/24-50 at F8 and the 'Monster Metz', the rest were Leica M's wide open > w/available light. > > Steve > Annapolis