Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, high school "news paper" and yearbook aside, my first published photos appeared in the summer of 1963 in the Westport Town Crier, a weekly in Westport, CN. I remember that some time in June I showed up on the editor's door step, showed him some photos I'd taken, and told him that I wanted a summer job as a photographer - ah, the chutzpah of youth! He said he'd give me a couple of assignments, said he'd pay $10 per photo, - gave me film, and sent me on my way. After about the first two weeks, he'd bought so many photos that he decided to put me on "salary" - I don't remember what I made but I know it was below minimum wage. Over the course of the summer I shot everything from softball games, to the College Fashion Board at what I recall was the local Talbot's, and from kids at the beach to ribbon cuttings - all with my Dad's Rollei 2.8f. My final assignment, shot with a Honeywell Pentax, was to travel with people from Westport by train to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where I heard Martin Luther King deliver his "I have a dream" speech. I remember shooting stuff of Conn. Sen. Tom Dodd - fr. Of Christopher Dodd - Peter Paul and Mary performing, and various other odds and ends. When I got back the paper put together a photo page under the head, "Our Man, 17, Marched On Washington," along with a short piece they had me write. I don't have any of my original clips from the Washington Post, but I still have that piece to this day. B. D. From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of jon.stanton@comcast.net Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 5:58 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] First publication (was: I'm Published!) "Apart from equipment photos that went along with the articles I once wrote for ham radio magazines, I sold sailing photos to "Sailing" magazine back in the '70s." My Dad had a complete set of QST's until he passed in 1993. He also subscribed to "73" and one other Ham magazine...He ALSO subscribed to Sailing. I have his old call sign W9PSP Jon Oly, WA. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information