THIS JUST IN and I should have mentioned it sooner since it came out a week or two ago! It’s such an honor to have been featured in Clifford Oto’s Blog at The Stockton Record. Or read you can the PDF here Know Thyself BLOG BY CLIFFORD OTO.
YEARS AGO I had this wonderful 20mm lens I bought from the legendary Gary Fong at The San Francisco Chronicle. Oh how I loved that lens, it was one of my favorites and it made self portrait’s rather easy and fun! As a photojournalist I often came into contact with many famous people and given the opportunity I would ask them if they’d do a self portrait with me. I’d walk them through the process while focusing on my hand, telling them where to put their face and before they knew it click click we had a picture together! Only one ever got away– Anthony Quinn of the movie Zorba the Greek fame. He was lovely overall. I think he just didn’t hear me and I didn’t push but I still regret missing out on that one.
However some of the cool people who said yes were Joe Montana when he was the hottest quarterback of all time on the San Francisco 49’ers. John McEnroe, when he was still the notorious bad boy of tennis. Magic Johnson in his prime, California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom when he was San Francisco Mayor and Arianna Huffington, one of the most influential women in media today. I don’t do it as much these days but it sure was fun at the time and not a fad like it is now. I was (and still am) just a lively girl who figured out how to immortalize herself in the moment and seized many cool opportunities to do so. I called the series “101 Horrible Photos of Myself with Famous People.” But you know, I don’t look so horrible in any of them at all. 🙂
