BOB POLLI'S RIDE: August 2012

Friday, August 31, 2012

ROBERT CAPA

Back in 1972 or so, when i was running around with my new 35mm Minolta camera.... following my passion for photography, I discovered Robert Capa. He was a combat photographer and I am pretty sure I must have seen his photographs in Life magazine back then. I also remember something he said when he was interviewed...."If your pictures aren't good enough, you aren't close enough"...Well my photographs were certainly not good enough...so i decided to get closer...

©bobpolli

Thursday, August 30, 2012

PD JAMES

"....TO LIVE ON THIS DANGEROUS EDGE..."

pd james exerpt from The Lighthouse

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

MARLEY

"MY FEAR IS MY ONLY COURAGE"

bob marley

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

MISSED OPPORTUNITY

When I was twelve years old, my mother entered me in an easter parade fashion show at the local shopping mall in Miami, Florida. I won first place. Today parents would have used that win to catapult their kid into a career in modeling and acting at least, and a reality tv show at most. But back then, my dad was at work and my mom took us to the newly opened MacDonalds..the sign on the golden arches said "over 100 million sold" and treated us to a fifteen cent hamburger and a nickel coke..