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| June 1992 - Vancouver Magazine |
The PNE Roller Coaster is back after a year long refurbishment. It's the perfect time to bring back an @CBCOnTheCoast classic with @Lazin_Ryder
Enjoy!
cbc.ca
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When I read the above today in Twitter I immediately went to
Google and put woodie, Alex Waterhouse-Hayward and got this blog. When I went
to my files, I looked for Roller Coaster –PNE and found the negatives that I
took sometime in June 1992 for the July issue of Vancouver Magazine. A copy of the magazine was there, too.
My photograph is not the usual one where you shoot behind you, and you get the horrified look on people's faces.
Why did I take the picture in the opposite direction? I was told to.
I must give credit that in the 80s and 90s I worked lots for many magazines including Vancouver Magazine. The art directors were good at their job. The one for Vancouver Magazine in 1992 was Rick Staehling (deceased) who had graduated from the prestigious Art Center in Los Angeles.
Art directors like him, and the one that followed, Chris Dahl gave detailed instructions on how photographers or illustrators would deal with their assignments.
I remember telling Staehling that I suffered from acute motion sickness and I could not even go on a swing. He insisted that I had to take a stomach churning shot of the roller coaster.
I did. That was 30 years ago and that world of good journalism is gone. I could be smug about it and look down on photographers now. I try not to, and now I hope that somehow they may find the mentors that I was lucky to have had, and perhaps they may develop skills that go beyond the obvious. And only then will they attain a style, all their own.
