Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wearing pajamas to a shoot?!!? Genius, my man! You may have just stumbled on a way to set yourself apart from all the other poor schlubs out there trying to make a buck with their camera. I can see it now: "Kyle's such a great photographer, he doesn't need to follow any conventions." "Whatever you do, don't say _anything_ about his pajamas...He's the best, even if he is a little quirky." "Look on the bright side: at least he remembered to wear his pajamas today. When he photographed my wedding..." Enjoy the rest of your day off, Aaron At 02:35 PM 3/3/2004, Kyle wrote: >So, I wake up, leisurely today, make some toast, put my feet up, feed the >cat, putter around in the back yard.... Eventually I decide to turn on the >computer and check my email before wandering back outside to catch up on >some reading. There in my inbox is a message: > > To: kyle cassidy > From: [mumble mumble] magazine > Subject: This Morning > > Dear Kyle, > Thank you for so much for agreeing to photograph Governor Rendell today. > I'm sure you already have it, but I just wanted to send you another copy > of his schedule for today. See you at 9:00! > > [Mumble mumble],Editor > [Mumble mumble] magazine > >Holy fark! Leap off of the chair, grab the leicas, shove them in a bag run >out of the house in my pajamas, into a taxi with the instructions "Think >NASCAR, there's a big tip in it for you!" > >Race to the venue, out of the taxi, up the steps, and ... Then begins the >long wait for the governor who's late ... So I hang around in the back with >the real photographers and pretend like I belong. We have conversations like >this: > >Real photographer 1: "So, that XYZ storie's really played out hasn't it?" >Real Photographer 2: "Yeah, I sat outside that hospital for six hours >waiting to get that shot." >Me: "Yeah. You think they have donuts here?" >Real Photographer 1: "Last night I was hanging off the runner of that >helecopter covering the evacuation story." >Real Photographer 2: "Yeah, I saw you, I was behind the police car when the >bullets started flying. I took one in the arm here." >Me: "Yeah, I was, um, getting shot at too. You'd think they'd at least have >coffee." >Real photographer 1: "Yeah. I saw you on the roof of the ambulance getting >that shot." >Real photographer 2: "not as bad as bosnia!" >Real photographer 1: "yeah, definitely, that was crazy." >Me: "Check out the red dot on my camera here!" > >Eventually the governor shows up, I snap my shots, with my Leica set to 3200 >asa at 1/250 at 2.8 for the most part. > >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/11.jpg >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/2b.jpg >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/6b.jpg >http://www.asc.upenn.edu/scrapbook/2004/2004-03-03-sv-rendell/1b.jpg > >Back to the office, photos to [mumble mumble] can't wait for them to figure >out that I'm a fraud. > >NOW I'm going to sit out in the back yard and catch up on some reading! > > >Kc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html