Photography stories

[avalladares7439]

Hello fellow photographers I am relatively young film shooter and one of the things that has inspired me are the amazing stories the more experienced photographers share. So I was wondering if you had any photography story's to share any story at all please feel free to share!

 

[Alan Gales]

Since you enjoy instant films, I've got one for you. I once sold a Polaroid camera to Marlin Perkins. Back in the 80's I was working the camera counter at Venture (Venture was similar to todays Target stores) and up walked Marlin Perkins with his wife. Mr. Perkins was looking for a Polaroid camera so I sold him a One Step. It was a thrill for me because I had always been a fan of his growing up and watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom on television.

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[Dan Fromm]

Super 8, not 35 mm still, story of the small world kind. There I was, in early January, 1990, at the top of Volcan Irazu with my wife and a friend. They wandered around and shot 35 mm still, I had a Beaulieu 5008S on a tripod and was shooting scenery that didn't move much. Up pulled an enormous bus, sleeping area in the rear and seats and windows in front, with a sign in German stating that it was a tourist bus that ran from Panama to Mexico. It disgorged around two dozen tourists, one of thema gentleman carrying a Beaulieu 6008. Naturally we chatted and filmed each other filming each other. One rarely encounters two Beaulieu S8 cameras on the same mountaintop.

Cut to Asuncion in September, 1992. There I was, no cine camera in hand, running an errand when a squad of German tourists marched by. One of the was carrying a large Nizo S8 camera. Same man. We chatted again.

Small world, innit?

 

[Cropline]

In Jan. '09, my best friend and myself made a trip to Wyoming to visit w/another friend that had settled from our area of VA. to Cheyenne. On a snowy day the 3 of went to Medicine Bow National Forest and I took a Canon 35 w/Ektar 100 and recorded images of them. The place was more large rocks than trees and I took various photos- one of the most memorable being the two of them together at the top of some large boulders. Our friend had to work a day, so the 2 of us went to RMNP, and again, I took various photos. In 2011 the best friend sufftered an unexpected massive heart attack and passed at age 47. I had to relay that message. The image of those 2 at the top of the rocks carries much meaning and may be the only one of those 2 together. The other images from RMNP were used in the friends funeral service and are warm reminders for his family and myself. You never know what could be the last image made. So make it if the chance comes.

 

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back in the 1980s i bought a speed graphic press camera. i lived a good 60 miles away from boston
and i drove up to ep levines, which was what was known as almost a photographic mecca. it was at it's
2nd location at 150 lincoln street. the camera was a pacemaker and it came with a 127 tominon lens ...
a handful of years later i found myself living in a factory building as a live/work loft space. i was working at
a consulting firm in the city and doing photography on my own as much as possible ... i made it a point to visit
ep levines ( now at their 3rd location at 23 drydock ) as often as i could. there was a guy there named mike who used
to do his best to sell me junk lenses. i was looking for something a bit longer than my 127, what i really wanted was a telephoto lens ..
so i would look in the case ... he had junk brass lenses ( none were long ) photocopier lenses, projection lenses ... but none were long enough
so he'd say " come back in a few weeks maybe we'll have something else" so i did ...
one day as i was leaving ( no new lenses ) a tall guy tapped me on my shoulder, gave me his business card and said " i have the lens you are looking for"
i took the card and drove home ... and a few days later i called him up. and went to buy the lens ...
it was a graflex teleoptar, 15" .. and i bought it. i got back to my studio and knocked on the door of the guy across the hall ... another photographer who
loved old stuff as much as new .. he asked who i got the lens from and i told him ... he laughed and told me he was the guy who built the loft i lived it ..
so the lens was back home ...

 

[Russ - SVP]

While climbing with Galen Rowell, he loaned me his Nikon FM. It was the perfect camera. I then went out and bought myself one. That FM is still going strong, decades later.