Old Saybrook takes Cromwell!
February 16, 2008
Sorry I don’t have a lot of time to catch you up on everything, but it was a very close game and Old saybrook played amazingly! Go rams! More photos below…
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These are your best basketball shots to date! Amazing what you can learn from your father, if you listen carefully!
Seems like Aaron’s father is taking credit for his son’s work…
Nice pictures Aaron.
Jake
As the sister and best friend of Aaron as well as the daughter of Mel Snyder I should tell you Jake that I credit much of the person and photographer that Aaron is today to the work and devotion of our father.
Your pictures are incredible Aaron! Another Snyder photographer… getting better and better each generation… can you even imagine what you will be able to teach your children?
I love you and miss you always
Thanks, Becca. My comment to Aaron was mostly in jest. Aaron DOES listen carefully, then takes what I’ve said, builds on it, and makes it his own. As I said in his grandmother’s eulogy and elsewhere, he has the potential to be the best of the Snyder photographers — and with two PPA Masters in the family, that’s saying a lot.
I give my father credit for all he taught me, and I was never in the slightest offended when he let people know I was in training under him. In fact, I was damn proud of it. I’m saddened that he didn’t live to see his grandson reach where he is photographically at just 17.
The amazing new depth in Aaron’s basketball pictures are the result of my teaching Aaron the multi-flash technique my Dad taught me nearly 50 years ago. Aaron’s main flash is, in fact, one of my dad’s. My father was using multiple flash back in the early 1940s, using flashbulbs — all of which had to be changed after every shot.
We Snyders have come a long way as photographers since my father was shooting news stories with a Speed Graphic and 4×5 film holders, and his brother (after whom Aaron is named) was shooting Army Air Corps aerial food and ammunition drops from a C47 to the Nationaist Chinese army on the Burma Road — and each generation’s images get better and better.