My own trip (which is far from getting anywhere yet, just to be clear)
started with a small-town weekly newspaper (now defunct) called The
Plant City Observer. My mom was friends with the woman who owned it and
she'd throw me jobs shooting a few photos here and there for her. I'd
go down and she'd load me up some HP5 from her bulk-loader and off I'd
go to some civic, sporting or local arts event. I was about 14 and I
thought it was the coolest gig ever. By 16 I was occasionally also
shooting for her competitor, The Plant City Courier. By 18 I started to
finally realize that I'd spent almost half a decade taking the same
damn photo over and over. The photo-op portrait. Stacks of 'em. I'd
started out emulating what others at the job had been doing and never
for a minute questioned the nature of the job. Breaking away sorts out
the artists from the grunts, IMO. I never really got to be much more
than a grunt. I'm still grunting a lot, but I'm always trying to break
away.
-Rob
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 12:38 PM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
It is part of the learning process. Almost all writers start out my
imitating the style of a writer they admire greatly. Breaking away is
the trick.
--
Winsor Crosby
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