Superman
Monday, June 11th, 2007![]()
Christopher Reeve, “Superman”.(click image to enlarge)
Within those first few months I also gained the dubious distinction of being one of the only people in existence to have “knocked the wind out of Superman’s cape.”
What a fabulous job we photographers have. We get to pursue a craft by choice, and generally love what we do. Many of us learned our craft the hard way, through long hard hours of sweat equity and weeks upon weeks of being on the road. Intermixed was often a good helping of luck.
Like many of my peers I have had the opportunity to meet some fabulous people: the rich and famous, the cantankerous, royalty, and the long since dead and recently deceased.
My first job was shooting for a weekly community newspaper where I got reimbursed with another free roll of film and access to a darkroom, while holding down a full time paying job in the military. Granted, the darkroom left much to be desired and came without instruction. I can now only imagine what some of those first negatives might look like if only they had been processed properly. But yet there was this great mystery of watching an image appear while I rocked the tray of developer back and forth.
