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In front of me a pile of old negatives…
Reminiscences… Memoires…

Photographing a Star…

THE Star !…
That Star is a real Star…
She is a huge Star back in my country, and I am nobody…
And She is beautiful and I am ugly…
And the photos of her are all over – in the magazines, on TV, on the covers of her records and my photos are… Oh, well… Yusuf Karsh hardly even remembered me…!!!
And She just came back from Paris where none other than Bruno Coquatrix of Paris “L’Olympia’ – kissed her hand in front of the audience…
And me…???
What the heck… I’ll kiss her hand as well and ask for fifteen minutes of her time…
After all… What does Bruno Coquatrix have – that I don’t ??? :- ))))

Have you ever gentlemen, waited for an answer from the lips of the beautiful woman…?
Well… You know the feeling, then….!
After long (veeery long), staring and studying my face, during which time I have three heart attacks – SHE said: YES !!!!

And now, I am in total panic…
I didn’t expect to hear that: YES !!!
I was rather accustomed to the standard: “Who the puck you think you are ? “

Mighty God… She said YES…!!!

The ambient lights...? Are they good enough? The lens…? What film do I have in my camera? Is it plenty of it…?

Run Georgie, run… Say “I am sorry’… And run…
You’ve made a total idiot of yourself, already… You and your Praktica… Yes, sure… What a combination…!!!

First shot ( like an explosion of a hand grenade in the quiet) and I started to freak…
Her face… She has the second thoughts…
She regrets her decision…(???)
She is the most beautiful woman ever lived in the entire Universe and she has frowned at the site…
I cracked the joke… A murmured the compliment… I tried to calm my trembling knees…

Miss Jarocka…
One more minute please… One more minute…
She smiled…
Do you read me, folks…???
She smiled at me and my camera…!!!!

More to come…

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Ale Porte Del Sole

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