Next to my desk at the Tribune is a wall with few things posted, a few phone numbers of photographers I need to contact on occasion, a list from Harmony Motter on what makes good photography, a few tea bag sayings, a picture of Bob Dylan holding a sign that reads 'Dig yourself,' A photograph I took of Santa Ray Eldridge and a photograph I took last summer at the Crawford County Fair of Nancy Kopf(folks pronounce it Cupps). Yesterday I got to photograph Nancy again, she is a very kind and fun loving person, sort of a Mother Theresa only with jokes and a big laugh. She does great work in Peru and our story will focus on her efforts to help people(a lot of children) in this region of the world. The picture above I felt shows her as that caring saintly mother Theresa type and picture below with her Piranha necklace having just made a fierce face but couldn't hold it for long before busting into laughter. She's a pretty special lady and one of the people who I've come across in my job that really makes me understand why I love what I do. Someday I might try to accompany her on one of these trips. Meadville Tribune photographs by Richard Sayer
Rich, You made me positively weepy. What a sweetheart! Would that I were everything you said. However, I am passing this along to others I think might enjoy. Incidentally, I read the rest. You are eloquent, but your pictures are stunning!