Sir Andrew...
The character who was 'known' as "Animal" was indeed a photographer..
and he seemed
to favour the Nikon F2 (if my memory serves me well enough, he was a
bearded photo-
journalists who was somewhat "outside the stream" of dress that was
favoured by his fellow
workers at the newspaper.
I might guess that that was back in the early to mid seventies... at
a time when I too drove around
photographing a great many farmers in the agricutural community to
record 'the way of the farmer'
All way across the country for the Federal Department of
Agriculture. I too dressed in jeans and
demim or chequerd shirt carrying an F2 (with motor drive). When that
programme was "eliminated" I
transferred to the local Research Centre (where I spent the next 20
years or so) making photographs of
diseased plants, bacterial and fungal cultures, insects (dead and
alive) gels, autoradiographs.. photo-
micrographs, transmission and scanning electron micrographs,
passport/visa and ID photos by the
hundreds, hand- coloured lith slides by the thousands, poster
sessions etc by the dozen.... and so on....
I must admit I (kind of) miss the work... and the appreciation of
the individual scientists for whom I
produced the best I could.... but I do NOT miss the stress of having
the to numerous 10 to 14 hour days
to meet the demands for 'service'.
Ken
(and still bearded.... after some 45 years)
On 24-Mar-12, at 8:06 PM, Andrew Davidhazy wrote:
I seem to recall (but I may be wrong!) that there was a TV show in
the US that referred to a photographer on the staff or something as
"animal" ... Am I just imagining this?? If yes then which show? I
guess I could google or bing it ...
andy
Quando omni flunkus moritati (R. Green)
