I hope you enjoy these images from Walter Iooss’ talk at The Paramount Theater for the Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville.
I’d like to start this post by saying the Walter Iooss was probably my first influence in photography. As a young man, I had the extreme fortune to photograph Major League Baseball, World Championship Wrestling, NBA games, and college athletic events. I wouldn’t trade that experience for the world. It allowed me into a world I would never be a part of…..I certainly tell myself the professional scouts didn’t notice my illustrious career as a college intramural flag football player, softball champion, and basketball sixth man of the year – THAT’S why I didn’t make it as a professional athlete. Seriously, I loved sports and still do. I subscribed to Sports Illustrated in 1983 and still