Thank you, Jonathan Roy. After your “show” in Chicoutimi, CBS’s Air Farce bought me a picture of you. And now that you will face the court for your action, one of my photos of you is featured in… Sports Illustrated!
Since the photo was sold thru the Canadian Press agency, I don’t know yet how much this sale will get me yet. It might be only a square inches in size, but there is one thing for sure: that will get me more money than the guy who sold a photo for a recent Time magazine cover…
Edit: Lens is now sold
Canon 70-200 F2.8 for sale. This is NOT the IS version. On the photo below, you will notice that their is no tripod collar. It’s just that I don’t use it and I forgot the put it back for the photo. But it IS included. UV filter is included to.
The glass is pristine. The lens itself has some paint wear, but is otherwise perfect. I only sell it because I’m upgrading to the IS version.
Price is 950$ plus shipping. Buyer pays Paypal fee if applicable (3%)
email me at info(at)francisvachon(dot)com or at 418-805-3840
After Gorgian and Canadian journalists, it’s now a Turkish TV crew that experiences the pleasure of being shot at in Georgia. This one is very scary; you can see the bullets flying by as they try to escape.
A Georgian reporter is shot at while doing a live, and a Radio-Canada (French-Canadian CBS) crew have their car and everything they have but a camera stolen at gun point a checkpoint.
Here is a photo pit at the Beijing’s Olympics. Others have counted 38 Canons and 45 Nikons. And 3 females.
Also, check out this NFL Maden 09 video game trailer. Look at the sideline. You will see a lot of photographers, and some of them are even chimping!
(Photo of me by Kevin Hill)
“To chimp” is the action of looking at the back of the camera to make sure that “we got the shot”. Doing so is often followed by showing the picture to the photographer beside us to brag about the great shot. And then, this other photographer might say “Who! Wha!”, just like a chimp.
Photojournalists like to catch other photographers chimping, and many websites have a “funpix” section where you can see us doing it. Like here, where I was apparently not to happy with what I got.
