And so they put me on like a 90 day probation period to see if I could keep up with what I said.
Gary Crabbe: 05:34 What I was doing? But I said, absolutely, I can do it. Raymond Hatfield: 05:32 Does it come with a rake? Do you think you can run the department? And I went sure, I mean, we're talking eight 30 in the morning after my first day on the honeymoon and I'm being summoned in the office and I get into the office and they say the people that are running your department are no longer here. I came back from my honeymoon three weeks later and literally the moment I walk in the door, the manager of the office goes Galen and Barbara need to see you in their office right now. Gary Crabbe: 04:46 Like, I knew nothing about it. And, you know, there were shots of rainbows and Palm trees and sunsets, and they were all I took, you know, like 10 rolls of those print film, negatives that you develop in the drug store.
#Minolta camera pictures manual#
I've got my little old money manual Minolta and I was going to be like the next Galen route. But within that nine days, I was exposed to all of this world-class photography. So actually I guess my wife was my fiance at the time. But literally nine days after I started working there, I went off on my three week honeymoon. They gave me, you know, we, we split the difference on what I was losing. Raymond Hatfield: 03:42 Day one, starting out. And surprisingly I did ask for and got a raise on my very first day of work And so I did get hired, I got paid less than I was as a cook. Cause in this time there was no digital photography not even digital scans, so everything was done on slides and they need someone to put all the slides back into those same sort of file drawers that you see behind me. My job was going to be taking all the slides back from clients. And surprisingly, I did get offered the job of basically just being a little file, boy. A number of years before that and his famous shot of the rainbow over the potassium palace is like a, you know world-class signature photo. And the only reason I recognized who it was immediately was because I had seen his mountain light exhibit in person at the California Academy of sciences. And it, soon as I showed up at the doorway I recognized it, it was the studio of even then a world famous national geographic photographer named Gale and Raul. And so I applied for it and got asked to come in for an interview. And one of the ads that I saw in the paper was for to outdoor photo agency must love dogs. Gary Crabbe: 01:54 It was right after I had graduated from college. That's what I wanted because as opposed to waking up really early and cooking, and I had to spend my weekends cooking and stuff like that, I want, at that point I wanted some sense of normalcy and I think it was maybe about 24. Wait, that's what you wanted was the norm. And so I basically started applying for anything I could find out of the newspaper and that included answering telephones at an adoption agency, a telemarketer you know, I didn't care what the job was as long as it was a normal Monday through Friday nine to five job. And my wife basically said, well, find a different job. No, actually, I, I was so absolutely sick to death of waking up every morning at ungodly hours that I actually now waking up again that early, but I, I literally woke up with a stream of profanities coming out of my mouth saying I didn't want to go to work. And it's a question I do get asked a lot. Gary Crabbe: 00:24 Oh, that's a really easy answer. And I want to know what, how you got into photography in the first place. Now, I want to take a step back from that, just monumental achievement right there.
#Minolta camera pictures series#
Raymond Hatfield: 00:00 In 2018, seven of your landscape images were chosen by the us postal service to represent just how beautiful America is in a series of stamps. Because of this, please do not quote this automated transcript. Disclaimer: The transcript was transcribed electronically by and may contain errors that do not reflect accurately what the speaker said.
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