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from Shooting the Pistol - Courtside Photos of Pete Maravich at LSU by Danny Brown:

[for me to immortalize my dad in writing is one thing. to have someone else do it is quite another story...]

I need to make special mention here of Baton Rouge State-Times staff photographer Charles Gerald. He began work at the newspaper in December 1967 and became my best friend. Charlie and I remained very close until his death in December 1990, when he and his boat were lost at sea off Miami in bad weather conditions. He was simply the best photographer I have ever met. He had an eye that could see a photo where none was apparent, and that one photo would tell the whole story of what he was covering. He won numerous awards from the news services in many different catagories. I learned a lot from Charlie.

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And although I would like to think of myself as a great photographer, I'm really not. At least not on the level of those friends I mentioned above, particularly Charlie Gerald.

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and... the best for last - at least for me - there's a picture of my dad on page 92 between the T and the O. yeah, that's him with the long sideburns looking cooler than cool. i KNEW i got it from somewhere...