Goin’ Back

A real cowboy in North Carolina.

It takes three.

The Band arrives at Stanford University.

Hoping hand.

Games of chance.

Defense, Virginia Tech.

Working the land.

Pregame focus.

Ralph Sampson, Virginia Tech.

Have I got a deal for you.

Keeping the beat.

oing back even further. Back to around 1980 to be exact. Back to a time when pictures were made on film. Black and white film called Tri-X. Its ISO was 400 but it could be manipulated in exposure and development.

I’d like to say that those were the days. But, they weren’t.

I worked hard. My work got better. I had a couple of mentors in those early days who were rough, tough and fair. They taught me what it really meant to make good photographs.

That’s the thing.

You see the face of one person who’s done well. It could be a photographer, or a musician or a jet fighter pilot. Everyone of those people had a team of people working behind the scenes to put them on their stage, whatever it might be.

You never really do it alone.

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February 8, 2022

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Ray Laskowitz

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Black and White, Career, Early Days, Film, Moments, Newspaper, Photojournalism, sports, Street, Tri-X

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sloppy buddhist

February 10, 2022

keeping the beat💃I’d rather dance than march💫hugs hedy

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1. Ray Laskowitz
  
  February 10, 2022
  
  If you were in New Orleans you could dance and march at the same time. It just works that way.
  
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Jennifer Balink

February 20, 2022

I loved Tri-X 400. And Agfa Portriga Rapid paper (grade 3). I hired a young guy here to do headshots for my team at work. He’s got a great eye and handles the camera well (meaning, he holds it properly, from underneath). He’s never seen or touched film, but he’s signed up for an analog photography class, he said, because “it sounds really cool.” God, I’m old!

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1. Ray Laskowitz
  
  February 20, 2022
  
  That’s sort of the newspaper/wire service combination as well. I used that for many, many years. There is a photograph at the NYT — Tyler Hicks — who is their projects photographer. He is an amazing shooter. For a while they were doing little videos as a way to get to know the staff. He was paired with a reporter. He didn’t even know how to hold a slide. He’s young enough that he’s only shot digital. Nah… I’m older. Funny thing. Every now and then I get a new client. They are always very young art directors. They ask me if I can shoot film. When I say that I can they think I’m so cool. Meanwhile, Kodak is shooting themselves in the foot again. Want a roll of Tri-X? They make it. It will cost you $22.
  
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