Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I remember that talk, too he was right, of course started newpaper career as sports stringer a couple of nights a week we did the same thing here, I?d hit 2 or 3 games depending on who was playing where, sports wrtirers would each have a short roll I?d do 12-20 rolls of film on a Friday night, hitting the darkroom about 10 or 11pm actually got to the point that I could get four short rolls on one steel reel (back-to-back emilsion out, inner reel/outer reel) Four reels in a tank. One tank for 1600 push HP5 or P3200 and one for 400 HP5. came home at 2am, reeking of rapid fixer ric > On Mar 25, 2020, at 7:37 PM, Bill Clough via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > Every Friday night the evening staff at the Houston Chronicle would be > assigned to photograph two different high school football games. You > photographed the first quarter of one game, then rushed to the second game > and photographed its third quarter. It didn?t take long for every picture > to start looking like every other football photograph. > > I decided to try something different. I proudly brought this picture to > the sports desk. > > ?I can?t use this,? the sports editor shouted. ?There?s no way the > mother of that quarterback can recognize him.? > > It was never published; but it seemed to me to represent all high school > football games every where, every time. > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bill1941/RETROSPECT/Friday+night+football_+Houston_+Texas_October_+1972+___+01214jpg.jpg.html > > > ?Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information