[Leica] IMG: Alton Brown stole my camera and I have the images to prove it

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

Chris:

Thanks for showing this, very enjoyable.

Jim


Christopher Williams wrote:

> Okay, not really. 
> 
> My wife and I walked down to the local bookstore(a real local store, not 
> the B&N) today to see Alton Brown (Good Eats and Iron Chef TV Host). He 
> was signing his new book "Feasting on Asphalt", which follows the story of 
> the TV series of the same name that Alton did last year. They started in 
> New Orleans and went up North along the Mississippi River on motorcycles 
> looking for local recipes and food.
> 
> We noticed he was taking photos with everyone so it seemed no problem to 
> get some shots with him when it was our turn. So we get up there, 
> extremely nice guy, signs the books and one of the assistants says she 
> would take a photo with my camera so we both can be in the shot. Well, 
> keep in mind I have my D3 with 28-70/2.8 with me, but she says no problem. 
> I put the camera on AF-C and high speed 11fps just to make sure she will 
> get the shot for us.
> 
> Click,click,click,click,click,click,click.............. she's nailing it! 
> Alton starts to laugh at how large and fast the camera is. So he starts to 
> shoot self portraits with it! This is just too hilarious! I make sure I 
> sneak in a few frames with my ugly mug. 
> 
> So here's a slideshow of today, complete with Alton's self portraits.
> 
> www.zoeicaimages.com/AltonBrownNOLA
> 
> As we're leaving he tells me Ansel would not approve of that type of 
> photography.
> 
> 
> Chris
> NOLA
>