Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Damn nice work for a fraud in pjs....:-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Kyle Cassidy Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 2:36 PM To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' Subject: [Leica] Kyle's day off! 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html