Model:
Sydney
Ballans
Missing
Sydney
By
Brian
Thornton
The
photographer
that
I
studied
under
when
I
lived
in
California
was
one
of
the
most
skilled
photographers
I
have
known
to
this
day
–
unfortunately,
he
was
also
a
camera-‐flinging
psychopath.
If
anything
set
off
his
tempter
–
a
wrong
pose,
a
strobe
misfire,
the
look
just
wasn’t
right,
a
Nikon
or
Hasselblad
would
take
to
the
air.
Part
of
my
job
as
his
assistant
was
to
an\cipate
these
moments
of
camera
flight
(usually
announced
by
the
catch
phrase,
“This
just
isn’t
working
for
me”,
and
catch
each
thrown
camera.
I
think
the
only
reason
he
is
not
in
the
Guinness
Book
of
World’s
Records
for
farthest
camera
thrown
is
that
I
was
too
busy
catching
cameras
to
call
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them
or
document
these
not
rare
considered
launching
the
camera
enough
moments.
I
vowed
to
never
into
the
air.
Instead,
I
put
the
be
like
him,
and
have
never
come
camera
back
onto
the
desk,
close
to
throwing
ONE
camera,
un\l
cancelled
all
of
the
appointments
my
plans
to
shoot
with
Sydney
and
mee\ng
I
had
for
the
rest
of
Ballans
fell
through.
the
day,
and
the
following
two
days,
Aner
working
to
schedule
a
a n d
r e t r e a t e d
a w a y
f r o m
workshop
with
Sydney,
I
secured
a
photography
to
pout
for
a
while.
date
and
\me,
and
one
by
one,
the
I
am
not
normally