[Leica] Kyle Cassidy: Best Travel Photographer of the Year

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Well Bubba

Having lived here almost 35 years I must admit you captured Florida's 
essence. Now, go home.

Walt

Kyle Cassidy wrote:

>De Stern Magazine, October 16, 2006:
>
>"When measured in terms of pure conceit alone, Kyle Cassidy is the best 
>travel photographer of 2006.
>
>'Ive never seen anyone who consistancly votes for his own work with such 
>enthusiasm, even in flagarent disregard for the rules of the contest,' said 
>Jeri Rudeskil, associate editor for Amature Travel Photographer Magazine, 
>'sometimes we'll come into work and see that Kyle has voted, tirelessly, 
>for himself for a period of maybe twenty hours in a row, logging thousands 
>of votes and catipulting him into the top ten.' The balding editor looks 
>over his thick rimmed glasses and adds, 'we usually throw them out, but his 
>stamina is amazing.' 
>
>Indeed, Kyle Cassidy's abilty to "toot his own horn" as they say in America 
>is legendary. He has been known to put on various elaborate disguises and 
>talk about himself at trendy Manhattan parties. Photographer Cindy Sherman 
>recounts one such instance:
>
>'He was wearing a false moustache, which was odd, because he had a real one 
>sticking out from underneath it. He was wearing a sort of hunch-back and a 
>shoe that made one leg about three inches longer than the other. He was 
>standing next to me in Anne Liebowitz' kitchen just gushing about how great 
>Kyle Cassidy was. If he wasn't such an utter creep, I would find it 
>charming.'
>
>Cassidy's recent travel photos of southern Florida in the United States can 
>be seen here:
>
>http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/pix/travel/2006/florida06/
>
>be prepared, they are absolutly life changing."
>
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