First funeral for a miner of the Wilberg Mine Disaster at Sandy cemetery. Felt a bad vib amoung the people and asked widow if we could stay but at a distance. used Nikon F3 300mm f2.8.
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Garry Bryant
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Name: Garry Bryant
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About: Trained as a combat-aerial photographer for Vietnam War, served 5 years. Went to college on GI Bill, first at University of Colorado, and graduated from BYU. Interned six months at Price Sun-Advocate, and was first photo job was at the Logan Herald-Jorunal, then to the Ogden Standard-Examiner, and finally with the Deseret News from 1985-1997. During his career he received from state, regional, and national over 75 photo awards. Associate Editor of the Utah Journalism Review, and The Rangefinder. Taught 9 yrs as adjuct-professor at BYU in photo-journalism. In 1997 was informed by doctors to retire. Since that time he has fought medical, overcoming some and still plagued by others. Yet over all and underlining things, he is still a photojournalist. Still seeing, takes photos now and then, but with nowhere to display them, sell them, or have creditials to events, he just takes photos with his minds-eye. Married, with three grown children.
Still a die-hard Nikon user, I haven't defected to red & white side yet!See Authors Posts (7).
Wilberg Mine Funeral
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I’m giving this “coin” twice. Some for the longest blog post title ever, and more for the great photo.
Great frame Garry. I wonder if any of these people were at Saturday’s memorial.