Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last night I was covering the Annual Women of Vision Awards Gala put on by Women in Film & Video in Washington, DC. This years recipient is actress Sharon Stone. The ballroom is crawling with Hollywood celebrities, politicians, filmmakers, wannabes and other hanger ons. So I am in the VIP Reception room at 6:30 along with many folks from Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, Variety, CNN, People Magazine, etc, etc. While waiting for Sharon I am blasting away getting shots of various well known and not well known people. 8 pm and Sharon has not made her appearance yet. The organizers are getting anxious..... ....jump ahead to 1 am: So Sharon has just accepted her award and I captured it all in living color with SLR and w/flash, I was right in the thick of it so now comes the speech and all the photogs fade into the background. Sharon is prattling on about how she grew up in Pennsylvania and had guns all her life but after the mass murder at Colubine a couple years ago she turned all her guns in, in the meantime I am the lone photog standing about ten feet in front of the podium shooting rapid fire with an M and 50/1.4, no flash....I can hear Sharon talking about how she learned to get ahead by "un-crossing her legs,"....I am still absorbed in the moment of capturing her rare beauty, her magnificant gestures with her long slender arms.....I can hear the ballroom audience of about 900 laughing..... ......Then I realize Sharon is talking to me...."haven't you got enough pictures already?"....Then she does an exatgerated pose, the crowd breaks out in a roar of laughter...she is smiling at me.....my face is red....she throws me a kiss....I slink away. "Film at eleven." sl