Playing Weegee

[juan]

I was washing dishes this Sunday morning, trying to convince myself that I really needed to be doing housework rather than be out photographing. Then sirens - loud - stopping nearby. I ran to a window and saw fire trucks, fire rescue and police cars just outside.

It's cold today (for Florida) in the mid-30s F, and bums had broken into an old beach house that's scheduled to be torn down. They had started a fire to keep warm.

I grabbed the Speed Graphic, put on the flash (I've adapted an electronic flash) set 100 f/8 and ran outside. Just like Weegee. I was a photojournalist again.

I spent a half hour wandering among the firefighters, the police arresting a bum, the hoses and the water. No official said a word - it must have been the Speed Graphic.

Now, will the prints be any good? We'll see.
juan

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Weegee said it helped to have a big camera like a Speed Graphic, but don't put your press pass in the band of your fedora. That's just in the movies.

 

[Robert Kennedy]

And don't use an old button from a vending machine that says "Pull".....

 

[ian_greant]

>No official said a word - it must have been the >Speed Graphic.

naw... they were just waiting to see if the crazy guy would do anything worth arresting for. Then the fun would have started

 

[Alex Hawley]

And don't use an old button from a vending machine that says "Pull".....

That was Curley's line! Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk!

 

[Adrian Twiss]

But what about the cigar?

 

[Robert Kennedy]

Wasn't that CLinton's line?