Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think he was a better writer than he thought he was. I've read >almost everything he wrote and don't really have much of a problem >with it from an Editor's perspective. I always wanted him to write >some stuff for me, but his contract with Outdoor Photographer >prevented that.
A couple of years ago I attended a workshop held by Frans Lanting at Chatham College (part of a celebration of Rachel Carson). This was less than a year after Galen Rowell was killed. At the end of his presentation Lanting took questions and eventually, running a bit over time, said he could only take one more quick question and then he would have to leave. Someone asked him about his working relationship with Galen Rowell and it just stopped him in his tracks. I thought he was going to break down and cry then and there. He didn't quite but he came close enough that the person who asked the question apologized for bringing it up. Then he talked for a good 45 minutes about his various adventures with Galen. It was actually one of the most moving photography-related experiences I've ever had. >I did put one of his photos on our cover, though. >We decided to flip the photo left to right to make it work better on >the cover. Galen thought it was really funny that we got a bunch of >letters complaining that we flipped it, since he didn't think it was >a big deal. In retrospect I realized that we should have mentioned >in the caption that we had flipped it with his permission to >forestall the letters. Outdoor Photographer did that once and mentioned in three separate places in the magazine that they'd done it (and why). They still got complaints about it. I guess OP is kinda like Playboy - people buy it to look at the pictures, not read the print ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
