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| Julio Meyer - 1 December 2025 - Coyoacán, Mexico |
In my portrait photography of famous persons, many in hotel rooms, when possible, when I was working with a writer I had the writer sit for me to take a shot to make sure everything was working. Before digital photography I might have used a Polaroid.
With the advent of digital I still like to make sure that everything is working. Most photographers know of Murphy’s Law in which some unlucky man stated that, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” But I prefer to rely on Patterson’s Law in which a very unlucky man stated, “Murphy was an optimist.”
In Mexico City on December 1st I was in the house of 91year-old and almost blind photographer Pedro Meyer. I used my used, bought in 1962 Asahi Pentax S-3 to take b+w film shots. Then when I switched to my digital Fuji X-E3 I asked Meyer’s son, Julio to pose in preparation. I took one snap. The pictures of his father all four of them were just fine.
But when back in Vancouver I looked at the Julio Meyer photograph I was not prepared to see something so good that all I can claim is chiripa, that wonderful Mexican word for luck.
I had good luck. Me vino una chiripada.
