[Leica] First publication (was: I'm Published!)

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

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From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
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> 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.
> 
> 
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> jon.stanton@comcast.net
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> 
> 
> "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.
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