The Bus
January 6, 2010 by Technominx · Leave a Comment
Today on the bus a man sat down next to me with a cry of ‘A fellow Photographer!’
No he wasn’t psychic – I had my new big grown up camera with me. I planned to use the snow as a subject for some lunchtime camera practice.
Anyway, he began chatting about photography. He had a little point and click digital camera with him and for a millisecond I though how strange that he should have approached me and my big ole scary grown up camera…but then I saw his camera bag…he whipped out his yummy Olympus (OK that sounded rather rude) and then began to thumb through a mini portfolio he kept in the bag. Talking me through the shots. He was softly spoken and I found it hard to hear. I could only hear every other piece of advice and comment he made. It was infuriating. I wanted to ask him to slow down, I wanted to take notes. Instead I smiled lile the enchanted idiot I was. I didn’t want to break the magical spell of his soft voice.
As he left the bus he passed me his card and stopped outside the door…he told me to take a photo of him. As proof.
So here is my hastily grabbed snap. i didn’t have time for anything fancy….or frankly to even focus properly!
Here it is.
and that was that.
Who was he? Barry Lategan. He created one of the most iconic images of the 20th century. He took ‘That’ photograph of Twiggy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2009/nov/23/photography-twiggy
