{"id":17441,"date":"2020-05-18T05:22:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T09:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2020-05-17T19:48:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:48:31","slug":"winging-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/winging-it\/","title":{"rendered":"a wing and a prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17443\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aerial-camera.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17443\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17443\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aerial-camera-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17443\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of Geroge Hunter&#8217;s Aerial Cameras<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. The late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thechpf.com\/the-george-hunter-collection\">George Hunter<\/a> spoke to us a couple of times (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phsc.ca\/hunter.html\">Tales of a Photographer in January 2003<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=1285\">Songs of the Future<\/a> at the AGO in summer 2011). <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Hunter_(photographer)\">George<\/a> took iconic photographs across North America using a war-time aerial camera and a small two person airplane to take many of them.<\/p>\n<p>A natural story teller, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadiannaturephotographer.com\/George_Hunter.html\">George<\/a> gave stomach grabbing descriptions of his work across the years including leaning out of aircraft with purposely missing doors and falling out on the strut while trying for a photo. He valued a good shot over the risk to life and limb.<\/p>\n<p>He told a story of borrowing a plane and pilot in Edmonton and removing a door. A few months later, the owner of the aircraft emailed me to confirm the story! Scary stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Near the end of his life, an <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/even-with-a-photo-on-the-five-dollar-bill-you-probably-dont-know-one-of-canadas-most-active-photographers\">exhibition<\/a> of his work was on display at the Mississauga City Hall. The beautiful photographs were all printed on a professional ink jet printer from scanned negatives. \u00a0George died at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2013\/04\/12\/george_hunter_92_spent_decades_photographing_canada.html\">age 92<\/a> on April 10, 2013. Many of us attended his <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=2713\">memorial<\/a> in Mississauga 10 days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. The late George Hunter spoke to us a couple of times (Tales of a Photographer in January 2003; Songs of the Future at the AGO in summer 2011). George took iconic photographs across North America using a war-time aerial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/winging-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[788,1284,789,398,72],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-aerial","tag-aircraft","tag-airplane","tag-camera","tag-george-hunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17450,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions\/17450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}