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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wayback Photo - Leica Spot News Picture 1996
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:05:23 +0100
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Great shot and memories Alan
Lluis


> El 14 gen 2025, a les 6:39, Alan Magayne-Roshak via LUG <lug at 
> leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> 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
> 
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