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military, I stayed in Europe for a while and followed some of the Formula One Grand Prix automobile races at that time which ended up being the first photographs ever sold to national magazines, and I came back to New York, the center of the photography world, and worked there for a couple more years. Tere was four feet of snow outside, the superintendent of my building was on strike which meant I had no heat and hot water, the garbage men were on strike which meant that we had 30 feet of garbage bags piled up outside the house, and I finally decided to come home to Key West and do what I really wanted to do which was underwater photography.


VL How old were you then? DK I was 25.


VLWas your educa- tion in film making and photography supe- rior to what you could of have gotten at the school in California? DK It was real hands on and practical there. If the picture didn’t work out right, you ei- ther didn’t get paid or it was unsuccessful in some other ways. Every time I made a mistake it was a learn- ing experience, so I really learned a lot. Part of my training in one of the schools I went to was for photojournalism, so telling a story was important to me. I never made pictures for somebody’s wall. Most of my work was for magazines, tel- evision and books, and my pictures always had to tell a story. I photographed people underwater that were doing things, such as marine biologists, treasure hunters and archeologists.


and snorkeling gear.” lBob Kincaid, Key West native and underwater photographer


“. . . in the summertime I would go snorkeling every afternoon off the south side of the island. My territory was everywhere from the airport all the way down to Fort Zachary Taylor. I would spend three to four hours a day, sometimes more than that, with an inner tube, a peach basket


VL How did you learn to write that way? DK I read a lot. I started reading when I was in the first or second grade, and I read veraciously all my life. I read a book or two every day, and there is no substitute for that. And even if you don’t know the rules of punctuation, the words still have to flow in a matter that is pleasant to read and pleasant to the ear. It has to grab your interest from one sense to the next. You have to get emotion in there or else people don’t relate to what you are writing. Tat’s the same way with the photographs. Te person viewing the


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