Monday, September 23, 2013

Once a Photographer


In the early 80's I worked on and off several years for the Lake City Reporter as the Staff Photographer. My job came to an end when the Lovely Shop fire occurred and Harvey Campbell and I were the first on the scene. We took the vast majority of the photographs but it was decided in a late night editorial meeting that the paper would print  Photographs by Staff only. Harvey went in after the paper was on the press for printing and typed bylines under each photograph. The next morning when the paper came out, it was I who took the fall, not Harvey, since he was the sports editor. Who knows, he probably threw me under the bus, but I was let go.
This was taken in 1982 at the Raines game, the only regular season loss the Columbia Tigers suffered that year on their way to Regional runner-up, losing to eventual state champions Pensacola Woodham.
Here Scott Adams, who recently died, was photographed near the end of the loss at Raines November 5th, 27 to 16.
I was able to print this with my slide duplicator by copying the negative then reversing it.
If I can find a decent film holder for the duplicator, I am looking forward to processing many negatives that have never been printed.
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