Forgive me while I brag……..

For years I’ve told a story that I doubt many people believed.  In my very early career there was this young photographer, just like me, that worked at the Courier Journal newspaper in Louisville.  He was a really talented kid who eventually won a Pulitzer Prize, and was the NPPA Photographer of the Year (National Press Photographers Association).  So anyway we knew each other pretty well and one day I got a call form him in a panic.  He had been offered an assignment with National Geographic and had never shot color film!  He needed to know how to expose for slides!  Of course he was an eminently talented shooter and it didn’t take much help from me to have him up to speed.  He went on to have a wonderful career winning many, many awards and accolades, but  he never forgot that I did him one small favor those many years ago.

So today when he dropped by the Nikon area at the Media Center, at the Breeder’s Cup he gave me a copy of his latest book, I am the proud owner of several, and this time he was kind enough to make it official in his note!  This really isn’t bragging, it’s more a chance to say that a career is the sum of all it’s parts, and both mine and Dan’s have been that, we have given as much or more as than what we got, and in the end,  when they add it all up, that counts for a lot……..

the pilgrim