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« Reply #75 on: July 09, 2015, 11:23:47 »
Quote from: Gary on July 08, 2015, 18:19:57
Quote from: Jacques Pochoy on July 08, 2015, 17:07:42
#14 with a 28mm..? I hope you had a helmet too :-)
LOL ... it was a bet that I couldn't shoot football with a wide angle. News photogs are always having stupid contests amongst ourselves.
You won that bet, at some risk to your personal health!
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« Reply #76 on: July 09, 2015, 12:51:45 »
That football shot is amazing!!!
No AF-S, VR, nano coating, etc............
Pure skills!!!
Which include: courage, timing, speed, etc........
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« Reply #77 on: July 09, 2015, 15:49:15 »
Quote from: Anthony on July 09, 2015, 11:23:47
Quote from: Gary on July 08, 2015, 18:19:57
Quote from: Jacques Pochoy on July 08, 2015, 17:07:42
#14 with a 28mm..? I hope you had a helmet too :-)
LOL ... it was a bet that I couldn't shoot football with a wide angle. News photogs are always having stupid contests amongst ourselves.
You won that bet, at some risk to your personal health!

I am terribly competitive. At the time, we, (fellow news photogs and I), were betting at how close and how long ... how many games, I could go before getting knocked down. I can't find the image, but there is a shot of me, straight as a flagpole, bent at the neck, shooting straight down with a wide-receiver literally lying on my feet. I did a lot of twisting and side stepping during those games ... similar to a matador. I finally got knocked down when a female photographer fell down behind me while running away from oncoming linebackers. At the time I was backing up, quickly walking backwards and didn't see her prone body behind my knees and down I went.
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« Reply #78 on: July 09, 2015, 15:51:07 »
Quote from: Jakov Minic on July 09, 2015, 12:51:45
That football shot is amazing!!!
No AF-S, VR, nano coating, etc............
Pure skills!!!
Which include: courage, timing, speed, etc........
Thank you Jakov Minic ... (I was using a manual advance camera for that shot also. lol.)
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« Reply #79 on: July 09, 2015, 15:55:42 »
#15


Moi and the Enterprise
Edwards AFB, California

Nikon F2 w/ Nikkor 28mm, Tri-X
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« Reply #80 on: July 09, 2015, 18:34:10 »
Great action American Football up in the air

The scale is impressive. Space travel. How strange is that?
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« Reply #81 on: July 10, 2015, 09:52:05 »
Football with 28mm-unbelievable!!
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« Reply #82 on: July 10, 2015, 11:48:24 »
I am going to sound like one of Donald Duck's nephews:
"Uncle Gary have you ever been to the moon?"

I am afraid of the response to tell you the truth.
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« Reply #83 on: July 10, 2015, 12:14:30 »
It must have been awesome so stand next to the Enterprise - what a plane!
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« Reply #84 on: July 10, 2015, 16:33:53 »
Quote from: Frank Fremerey on July 09, 2015, 18:34:10
Great action American Football up in the air

The scale is impressive. Space travel. How strange is that?

Thank you Frank. That thing is big ... like the size of a small apartment building. Just to conceive and think that it is possible to design, build and launch an apartment building into space ... successfully ... is beyond my imagination. I covered a lot of the early Space Shuttle landings. The first Shuttle that was launched into space was was the Columbia. I vividly remember being in the Edwards AFB cafeteria and noticing some gentlemen walking by, each wearing patches on their jackets identifying them as members of "Rockwell - Space Division". I thought to myself ... most countries in the world don't even have a "Space Division" ... 
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« Reply #85 on: July 10, 2015, 16:35:19 »
Quote from: Andrew on July 10, 2015, 09:52:05
Football with 28mm-unbelievable!!

We used to do all kinds of stupid stuff. The group of news photogs I ran with had a low threshold for boredom.  ;)
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« Reply #86 on: July 10, 2015, 16:36:04 »
Quote from: Jakov Minic on July 10, 2015, 11:48:24
I am going to sound like one of Donald Duck's nephews:
"Uncle Gary have you ever been to the moon?"

I am afraid of the response to tell you the truth.
 :-[

It's made of cheese ...  ;)
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« Reply #87 on: July 10, 2015, 16:37:33 »
Quote from: elsa hoffmann on July 10, 2015, 12:14:30
It must have been awesome so stand next to the Enterprise - what a plane!

I've been inside one.   ;D


(PS- It's a spaceship. What fascinated my imagination was the shuttles rocketed into the heavens with the most powerful engines in the world ... yet floated back to Earth without any power at all.)     
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« Reply #88 on: July 10, 2015, 16:47:45 »
Today's installment:

#16


Getting Arrested
Anaheim, California

Nikon F2 w/ Nikkor 28mm, Vivitar 283 Flash, Tri-X ASA 1600

(To Clarify: This is the last photo I took prior to being arrested. The guy in the photo is an AP photographer.)
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« Reply #89 on: July 10, 2015, 17:08:06 »
Quote from: Gary on July 10, 2015, 16:47:45
(To Clarify: This is the last photo I took prior to being arrested. The guy in the photo is an AP photographer.)
Please, dont leave us hanging, give us the story!

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