Yup. :-) In eons past, I did a lot of such stuff as a newspaper stringer. It was always 1 chance in a hundred that a picture of mine would get picked, but I did get four or five into the papers. Nothing of any note, sadly. People who make a living as stringers a) do a LOT of ambulance and police chasing, b) shoot a LOT of this stuff, and c) have a well established relationship with editors and public service personnel which affords them insight into where things are happening and what kinds of photos will tickle the buying reflex of a given paper's editorial staff.
It's a good shot. I'd have liked to see a few more angles and some tighter cropping. Godfrey On Jul 4, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > The photo editor liked it - called it "hydrant art." The general > editor > felt that, since "the paper [was] full", he wasn't going to run it, > as so > doing would have required bumping something else. Anyway, I like > the pic, > newsworthy or not, and it was fun to get excited about the > possibility of > having one of my photos published in the local paper. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
