On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:24 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > Dragged myself out of my house this evening, to an illustrated photo lecture > by Dick Durrance on "Creating Opportunities". > > Not a whole lot of specific techniques, but an inspiring lecture based on > how he created new opportunities from some of life's setbacks. > > Dick got his first professional gig writing a letter to National Geographic > about a canoe trip he and some college friends were planning to take down > the Danube. They were using National Geographic maps to plan the trip and > asked National Geographic if they'd be interested in the story. > > Got a grant of six Nikon rangefinders and 400 rolls of film. He said before > the start of the trip, he'd taken exactly 19 rolls of film. > > Made the July 1965 cover shot. > > Pumped up now. Ready to go out find something to shoot tomorrow. > > Ran into one of my instructors from school, and had a chance to talk to him > about what I need to do to prepare for getting back in and finishing my > degree. Have to wait one more semester before I can start back so I can stay > in sync with the program. > > If it works out, I'll be starting back summer semester 2010. > > I've got something else lurking on the horizon, but I'll not say more about > it until I'm sure it's going to happen.
Go for it! 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.
