I always thought that the alligator guy was a bit of a buffoon, but in one episode (filmed in the Appalachians) he's sitting down and trying to lure an eastern diamondback rattler out of its den - only he realizes he's sitting _on_ another den. All buffoonery disappeared and you get a glimpse of a very smart and very intense personality.
He's probably a good photographer but most importantly, he doesn't take himself too seriously, so he hits the market right. Pentax certainly isn't the brand of pretentious self-serious people... - MCC At 09:13 AM 12/10/01 -0600, you wrote: >Paul J. wrote: > > > i hadn't thought of it that way, as he being ours spokesman. > > > > I wonder if he is a decent photographer. i kinda doubt he is. > > > > I hope Americans dont see him as a Spokesman for Australia! > > > >I wonder too about the connection to photography. Maybe I've just been >immersed in "photography culture" for too long, but the Jack Hanna >nature-guy type of thing doesn't make a connection to photography for me. >(I'd much rather see just a good big portrait of a camera with some prints >and a Spotmatic in the background, even.) > >My experience in the magazine biz is that non-specialist marketers don't >always have the surest insights about marketing photography. I had an >interesting experience with a newsstand consultant my company hired. He was >NYC hotshot who charged a pile of money. He had all sorts of rules for >designing covers that would sell--pretty girls, white background, lots of >blurbs in the upper left hand corner, lots of color. So we hired a >professional fashion photographer, followed all his rules to the T, and >produced a cover entirely to his guidelines. He approved highly of our >efforts. > >[Jul/Aug 1997 for those who might have back issues of _Photo Techniques_.] > >A little while earlier I had done a cover with a cyanotype of a cow skull >and the single blurb, centrally placed, that said "The New Cyanotype" >[Jan/Feb 1997]. The newsstand consultant wrote a 2-page diatribe to the >publisher about how awful the cover was, how I was ignoring his advice and >learning nothing from him, and that the cover was one of the worst he'd ever >seen. > >Guess which one sold better on the newsstand for us? The cow skull cover, by >a good margin. The fashion shot that followed all the "cover" rules was a >weak seller for us. > >I don't know from marketing. But I had one little advantage--I knew my >audience. > >I'd bet dollars to doughnuts I could come up with a marketing campaign that >would spike Pentax's sales. > >But of course I'm not a marketer. <g> > >--Mike >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Kalamazoo, MI [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - - - - - - - - - Photos: http://www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
