Franks: Your moments read pretty cool on this end too. Cheers, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "frank theriault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:06 PM Subject: Re: Your Great Photographic Moments? > On Feb 8, 2008 8:41 PM, Christine Aguila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Everyone: >> >> I hope you don't find this request tiresome, but given the great >> international reach, the delightfully varied life experiences and >> photographic interests, and the endless talent of the list, I'd love to >> hear >> stories about your greatest photographic moments. Anyone willing to >> share a >> story or 2? >> > > I got two photos published in the National Post, a nation-wide daily > (formerly owned by robber baron Conrad Black, but that's another story > for another time. > > They were racing photos, of Gilles Villeneuve, one in his car, one > headshot, both taken when I was a teenager and they raced F1 at > Mosport, Ontario. We snuck into the pits and no one stopped us, and > there he was! > > The friend who was with me ended up being an automotive reporter, and > he was editing a Canadian Grand Prix supplement. He told me he needed > a couple of pix of Gilles, and wondered if I could dig through the > archives. Said he couldn't pay me, but I'd get attribution, which I > did. > > It was pretty cool. > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
