Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/01/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rule number one, always have a camera available, Capa'a rule number 1 get closer. Great story and image. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 11:39?PM Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG < lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > 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 > < > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/19960911_MR_SpotNews6775-2.jpg.html > > > Leica M3, 50mm f/2 Summicron collapsible, Tri-X (Who needs a motor > drive? ;^) > > The photo on page 3: > < > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/Miscellaneous/19960912_MR_SpotNewsPubl.jpg.html > > > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory at gmail.com