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I cannot tell you how many times I have shown up at events with a couple of cameras around my neck, a gadget bag full of odds & ends and a lighting kit and have been asked that question. If it happened once every few years, that would be one thing. But it happens a LOT. It's like getting pulled over by the police and he's standing there with uniform, gun, flashing lights and asking him "Are you a cop?" I would love to come back with a witty reply, such as "No, I am Jesus. Don't you recognize my beard?" However, I cannot be that rude.


Thursday, February 6, 2020

WEATHER PHOTO: March 1986, Old fellow in doorway, Watertown, N.Y.


Weather Photo,


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.


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