Images From Torrey Pines, Vol. 2

A man devoted to his craft. See if you can count the number of cameras.

 

 

Comments

[Steve Wozeniak PGA]

All this guy needs is a shopping cart!!

[Tammy]

I rode to the course (Oakmont) with him last year, he doesn't look like he even put down the cameras in the interim.

Sitting down on the shuttle bus was as difficult for him as you would imagine.

[Lynn S.]

Television gets golf carts. I wonder if he wishes he was a TV cameraman. Of course it is noted in another thread that NBC puts up a few more bucks. And we praise those TV guys for lugging around one camera all day on their shoulder.
He also looks like he has had some bad days at Del Mar, or recently wagered on Big Brown.

[Crosby's Pipe]

Anyone check to see if those were HIS cameras?????

[Yardbird]

It's Alex, don't recall his second name. He's English. He's well known about the UK golf circuit but is something of a figure of fun...he's not regarded by the UK golf photographers as a professional snapper, they point out that you only need two cameras with you at any one time if you've got proper ability.

He's known by the UK snapping corps as "Buckaroo" for obvious reasons...

[FAROUCK]

Come Saturday he will be snapping pictures of Black Beach not golf. I'm sure that will be more exciting much better chance of seeing "birdies"

[Al]

We met this guy at the US Open here at Olympia Fields.
Seemed nice enough, but had too many cameras back then too.
Gave us a nice tip on using "George Washington Bridge" to determine the sequence of players on the walking scoreboards with each group by the using the colors of their caddies bibs.

[Old Tom]

Ya sure Yardbird. He's not a prof photographer. He just travels around the world and lugs his many cameras with him for the fun of it. If he doesn't define the meaning of a prof. photographer, I don't know who would. Looks like his dedication to the craft has earned him a few haters, probably more out of envy than anything else.

[Yardbird]

"He just travels around the world and lugs his many cameras with him for the fun of it."

Thought you were being ironic, but you've got it in one. He comes from a wealthy family and he just took up golf photography because he fancied it; he's the photographic equivalent of a vanity author.He doesn't get full accreditation for The Open (the real one) because he can't get a commission. None of his pics get in any respected publications that I'm aware of. God knows how the USGA let him in.

[walker]

Yardbird,
His name is Alex Jackson. I said that already.