[Leica] Kyle's day off!

[Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>]

So, I wake up, leisurely today, make some toast, put my feet up, feed the
cat, putter around in the back yard.... Eventually I decide to turn on the
computer and check my email before wandering back outside to catch up on
some reading. There in my inbox is a message:

 To: kyle cassidy
 From: [mumble mumble] magazine
 Subject: This Morning

 Dear Kyle,
 Thank you for so much for agreeing to photograph Governor Rendell today.
 I'm sure you already have it, but I just wanted to send you another copy
 of his schedule for today. See you at 9:00!

 [Mumble mumble],Editor
 [Mumble mumble] magazine

Holy fark! Leap off of the chair, grab the leicas, shove them in a bag run
out of the house in my pajamas, into a taxi with the instructions "Think
NASCAR, there's a big tip in it for you!" 

Race to the venue, out of the taxi, up the steps, and ... Then begins the
long wait for the governor who's late ... So I hang around in the back with
the real photographers and pretend like I belong. We have conversations like
this:

Real photographer 1: "So, that XYZ storie's really played out hasn't it?"
Real Photographer 2: "Yeah, I sat outside that hospital for six hours
waiting to get that shot."
Me: "Yeah. You think they have donuts here?"
Real Photographer 1: "Last night I was hanging off the runner of that
helecopter covering the evacuation story."
Real Photographer 2: "Yeah, I saw you, I was behind the police car when the
bullets started flying. I took one in the arm here."
Me: "Yeah, I was, um, getting shot at too. You'd think they'd at least have
coffee."
Real photographer 1: "Yeah. I saw you on the roof of the ambulance getting
that shot."
Real photographer 2: "not as bad as bosnia!"
Real photographer 1: "yeah, definitely, that was crazy."
Me: "Check out the red dot on my camera here!"

Eventually the governor shows up, I snap my shots, with my Leica set to 3200
asa at 1/250 at 2.8 for the most part.

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/11.jpg
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/2b.jpg
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/6b.jpg
http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/1b.jpg

Back to the office, photos to [mumble mumble] can't wait for them to figure
out that I'm a fraud.

NOW I'm going to sit out in the back yard and catch up on some reading!


Kc
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