U.S. Photographers' Visit

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31941, 19 March 1969, Page 14

U.S. Photographers' Visit

Twenty “advanced” amateur American photographers arrived in Christchurch last evening during a 14day tour of New Zealand. The tour organiser, Mr J. R. Luntzel, said that when the party returned to the United States it was hoped to assemble the best films of the group into a single exhibit which would be shown throughout the country. Mr Luntzel said there was only one professional photographer in the group, and

that was Mr P. Stackpole, one of America’s foremost photographers and who for 25 years was a staff photographer on “Life.”

Now a freelance photographer, Mr Luntzel said the group had been fortunate to secure Mr Stackpole’s services as leader of the tour. Some of the members of the group had won prizes in in-

ternational photographic competitions. Today the group will leave for Mount Cook, Te Anau, and Milford Sound. Mr Luntzel said he had two wishes when he came to New Zealand. One was to catch a trout and the other was for fine weather when the group reached Milford Sound. The first wish had already come true. Although the group had spent three days in Fiji, and would spend seven in Australia and four in Tahiti on the way home, the members were concentrating their photographic efforts on New Zealand, said Mr Luntzel. The man with the most photographic gear is probably Mr C. T. Schwafel, a project administrator from Palo Alto, California. He has with him two large cases of equipment and one camera with three lenses, which was made for him by a camera designer in Los Angeles. Most of his equipment has been bought on trips overseas.

Hew Golf Pro.— The promising Lochiel club golfer. C. W. Moore, of Hamilton, turned professional yesterday. Moore, aged 22. will leave Hamilton to be in charge of a firm’s golf department in Wellington. He will play on the New Zealand circuit at the end of this year providing his form is right,