The owner doesn’t seem to appreciate my addition to his sign.
Standing in the street, I have my choice of three different types of vehicles to get hit by:
Just north of Ocean Beach sits the Cliff House restaurant:
NOTE: It’s now been two years since I wrote this post. Just yesterday (May 7, 2019), I finally found the final shot of us after we got out of the plane, taken by the pilot. The windows ARE tinted!
VINDICATION!
SPRING BREAK
This was taken at a midnight gold record party for the band Krokus at Tower Records (Broadway and 66th St, NYC) when another photographer jumped in front of me out of nowhere and instantly surprised the hell out of me when the flash went off (don’t I look real surprised?)
The menu at this party was chili (what I’m eating) and margaritas. I have to mention that because it looks like I have a plate of dog food.
This photo was used as the lead picture in a 6-page feature about my work (you can read the title in the second picture – I’m far too modest to write it out loud) in the February 1986 issue of Hard Rock Video magazine, whose editor you’ll be introduced to in the 1986 post.
I finally came across a copy of this magazine that wasn’t yellowed with age (he’s lying – he photoshopped the yellow out of his copy). This 5-page feature was the very first “Semi-Decent Rock Photographers” spread (I’m honored) and it ran in the July 1985 issue of Rock Video magazine (the predecessor of Hard Rock Video magazine).
This first series was all black-and-white photos and after a half-dozen or so other photographers were featured, the process was started all over again with my color shots (above), so I’m doubly-honored.
For dessert, don’t order the soft chocolate ice cream!
Somewhat less legendary is this guy and the camera he invented – the decidedly non-legendary WinkMaster 3000.
Never before could pictures be taken with such ease. A simple wink activated the finger on the shutter button to take the picture.
One night – which, coincidentally, was Halloween night – I wore it to Madison Square Garden where I shot the Crackdown Concert.
Here’s what the New York Times had to say in advance of the show:
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/31/arts/pop-jazz-concerts-with-a-cause-fight-against-crack.html
This is the ad for the show:
And here’s what the same New York Times writer had to say after the show:
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/02/arts/pop-crack-down-an-eclectic-benefit-concert.html
But most importantly, here are a few of the stunning images I took with the amazing WinkMaster 3000:
Reluctantly, I DID take pictures with my other cameras and some of those can be found on bobleafe.com/ under “Crackdown Concert”.
STILL speaking of Poughkeepsie, this was taken backstage after an Anthrax/Celtic Frost/Exodus show at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center………….and this a different show from the one mentioned in the two previous pictures.
A somewhat friendlier cop does something nice for some tourists.
For a while, every time I shot a show at NYC’s Cat Club, people would tell me about some guy who hung out there and supposedly looked just like me. News to me.
When I finally met him, I had someone take a couple of pix with my camera.
Aside from having beards and frizzy heads, I don’t see it.
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