Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2025/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's a very dramatic shot with lots of interest in the frame. On 14/01/2025 05:39, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG 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