Weather Photo,
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| March 1986. Man standing in doorway of Book World, Watertown, N.Y. This was a typical weather feature I would shoot for the Post-Standard newspaper. photo copyright Gary Walts 2020 |
I took this photo in March of 1986. The man wouldn't tell me his name but was fine with publishing it in the Post-Standard. After it appeared in the paper Moe Hunt
I believe people thought the newspaper should just give them prints as a little compensation for appearing in it. After all, the newspaper made a lot of money and could afford it. However, I was a freelancer in those days and I had to make the prints myself, in my own darkroom. I wasn't compensated in any way by the paper for making those prints. This was during the "starving artist" period of my life.
This photo was made with a Minolta x700 35mm camera, 200mm lens, Alford HP5 film.
