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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Leica Spot News Picture 1996
From: amagayneroshak at gmail.com (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:39:19 -0600

Back in 1996 I had just dropped my wife Kathryn at the airport for her New
York trip, and was going home when at a red light I saw a vehicle
on it's side a block away down a side street, the underside lit by the
morning sun. I drove over and took about ten pictures from a discrete
distance.
(I didn't want to be an aggressive photographer)  Feeling it was
newsworthy, I went downtown to the newspaper office and explained what I had
shot.  They took my exposed film and told me they would develop it.  I knew
people there, since I had been a member of the Wisconsin News
Photographers Association since 1972.

The next day I opened the paper to find my photo on page three.  This is
the frame that they picked.  All three victims are visible.
View LARGE
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Leica M3, 50mm f/2 Summicron collapsible, Tri-X  (Who needs a motor
drive?   ;^)

The photo on page 3:
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http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/19960912_MR_SpotNewsPubl.jpg.html
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-- 
Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer, Emeritus
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services
(Retired)
UPAA Photographer of the Year 1978
UPAA Master of the Profession 2014
amagayneroshak at gmail.com
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/>

"All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
 for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt


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