RE: [Leica] RE: A law of photography/Allard

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

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> Tim wrote:
>
> >I recall Bill Allard saying he figured he only got about 2 "great/best"
> >shots a year. Some years maybe 1... :)
>
> He's an awesome photographer, and thank goodness someone else is
> looking over his shoulder so we get to see his images before they hit
> file 13 then. There was a National Geographic documentary i saw which
> followed him around recently. Amazing watching him work! Very fast,
> and very nimble guy perpetually sucking on a pipe. Half the time i
> was trying to keep up with him as he bounced around the framing of
> the camera that was following him. The other half i was busy
> wondering how he managed to take all those great photos, smoke
> simultaneously, and still manage not to have big puffs of smoke in
> front of his subjects :-)
>
> He also had an enormous amount of humility and passion for
> photography. I'd Llove to meet the guy one day, seemed like a great
> human being.
>

He was teaching another course when I was at the Maine Workshops one year.
Intersting guy.

Tim A