Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've posted it here before so sorry if I'm tiresome, but I feel it's an obligation to SOME of the photographers involved to impart what I gathered about the accident-- When in Paris for a friend's New Year's Eve party two years ago I talked to someone, a limo driver who works for, among other clients, the Ritz. He witnessed the accident, as he was driving home from the Ritz, shortly after witnessing Henri Paul step out the front door of the Ritz and challenge the waiting photographers to try to keep up with him. In short, Paul left the photographers in the dust from when he left the hotel. They were nowhere near the accident, and a couple of them weren't even assigned to photograph Di, but happened upon the accident en route to something else and got rounded up with the rest. I don't condone paparazzi, and I don't even think of them as photographers (what does it take to shoot a fully automated camera these days?). I think they're more akin to private investigators or bounty hunters than photographers. Sorry so many of my posts have been off-topic, I'll try to exercise greater discipline. BTW, for any pros out there, especially freelancers, register with editorialphoto.com. They just might save freelance photography. invaluable information for me too, as I hope to go freelance eventually. But they are not in the least bit tolerant of wayward posts like this one. Dave Yoder Eric Welch wrote: > At 03:02 PM 9/7/99 -0400, Marc James Small wrote: > > That is, there is some evidence that they were chasing the car in which Di > >was riding. > > Ah, but they've been doing it for years, and that is an unfortunate aspect > of life, I will admit. I don't do it. Many of us don't, and would never > subject ourselves to that kind of career for any amount of money. Life is > too short. > > And Tom Donovan says, and here's your wish coming true, "Eat ice cream and > use Leica Apo glass!" > > Eric Welch > St. Joseph, MO > > http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > > Capt'n! The spellchecker kinna take this abuse