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- Aug 17, 2002
The other thread I started about age has brought several people to relate photography stories or experiences. It made me think of my most embarrassing moment as photograher.
I used to shoot weddings, primarlily for friends that could not afford a real photographer. One of my best friends from high school was getting married and asked if I would shoot her wedding. Her husband to be had a mom that always talked about her famous dad. I never paid that much attention to what she said.
At the wedding, I was taking pictures with My F2 and an old Braun F900 flash. This was the bees knees in flashes in those days. Well, I am taking pictures of the family after wedding and this very pleasant older gentleman introduced himself to me. He then proceeded to ask me some questions about my flash. Well I guess I had been tainted by his daughter's boastfull attitude, so I really just blew him off. In hindsight I was actually pretty rude to the man. I am sure I came off worse than the mother of the groom every did. He just smiled and went about his business.
Well, as things always seem to work out I later found out who this man really was. His name was Dr. Harrold Edgerton, professor emeritus of MIT and holder of 43 blue million patents, most in the area of lighting and photography. He actually invented the strobe light. You know all those famous pictures of bullets through apples, etc, The slow motion movies of milk drops and golf swings? Yep he invented the process and the lights!!!
Yea I am an idiot!
Well the was a happy ending, I actually wrote him and appolgized for my behaivor. He wrote me a vey nice note back and actually sent me an autographed photo framed of a bullet going through an apple.
Never prejudge who you meet by who they are with or associated with.
SO....
What is your most embarrassing moment?
I used to shoot weddings, primarlily for friends that could not afford a real photographer. One of my best friends from high school was getting married and asked if I would shoot her wedding. Her husband to be had a mom that always talked about her famous dad. I never paid that much attention to what she said.
At the wedding, I was taking pictures with My F2 and an old Braun F900 flash. This was the bees knees in flashes in those days. Well, I am taking pictures of the family after wedding and this very pleasant older gentleman introduced himself to me. He then proceeded to ask me some questions about my flash. Well I guess I had been tainted by his daughter's boastfull attitude, so I really just blew him off. In hindsight I was actually pretty rude to the man. I am sure I came off worse than the mother of the groom every did. He just smiled and went about his business.
Well, as things always seem to work out I later found out who this man really was. His name was Dr. Harrold Edgerton, professor emeritus of MIT and holder of 43 blue million patents, most in the area of lighting and photography. He actually invented the strobe light. You know all those famous pictures of bullets through apples, etc, The slow motion movies of milk drops and golf swings? Yep he invented the process and the lights!!!
Yea I am an idiot!
Well the was a happy ending, I actually wrote him and appolgized for my behaivor. He wrote me a vey nice note back and actually sent me an autographed photo framed of a bullet going through an apple.
Never prejudge who you meet by who they are with or associated with.
SO....
What is your most embarrassing moment?
I can't touch that. I was going to throw in the time that I unknowingly stepped in front of the shot of the chief AP photographer at Indy and got royally chewed out in front of several of my peers, but.... never mind!
