“Ron has given us the most comprehensive look at community events, particularly smaller ones that no one else was photographing,” said Kellner, who has been at the archives since 1983.
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His fee-free contributions, numbering many hundreds of photos, have been donated to the Columbia Archives, according to Archive Director Barbara Kellner. “I just keep an eye on what’s going on around town.
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“I consider myself a serious amateur, and absolutely not a professional photographer,” said Fedorczak, who recently celebrated his 77th birthday. “When I hear about an event, I try to be there with my camera,” is how he sums up his contribution to showing what makes Columbia tick. Those who have seen him taking photos of many of the events about town say he does it quietly, often behind the scenes. He has attended seminal events at various locations, wandered up and down the streets, cruised highways and searched out byways, always clicking away with his trusty Nikon at whatever was happening in the town he says he became enamored with ever since moving here in 1973. "So I just packed up, went home - didn't even weigh my fish in - and never went back to another spearfishing competition.Ron Fedorczak has spent the last 43 years - more than half his life - putting the history of Columbia in focus. "I just thought, `What am I doing down here killing these poor, defenseless marine creatures?"' he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. In the 1950s, he had a change of heart in the midst of a spearfishing competition. Taylor, a Sydney native, had a long love affair with the ocean but started out as a spearfisherman. Taylor was "right up there with Steve Irwin and David Attenborough in Australia," said Fox, who helps run a shark diving expedition company in South Australia.
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Andrew Fox said both men were affected by criticism that the movie reinforced the notion that great whites were death machines. While filming, a great white became tangled in the shark cage's cables and began thrashing violently as it tried to escape.įox's father, Rodney Fox, who famously survived a near-fatal great white shark attack in 1963, assisted on the shoot. They filmed off South Australia, using a miniature shark-proof cage with a very short diver inside in an attempt to make the real sharks look as large as the 25-foot mechanical shark used in the movie. The Taylors shot much of the now-classic sequence in which the shark tears apart a cage holding one of the main characters. Their stunning up-close images of sharks drew the attention of Jaws director Steven Spielberg, who asked the couple to capture footage of a great white for his 1975 blockbuster.
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Taylor and his wife, Valerie, spent years filming great white sharks and trying to persuade a wary public that the much-feared creatures were beautiful animals worthy of respect. Taylor, who had suffered from leukemia for two years, died on Sunday at a hospital in Sydney, said Andrew Fox, who worked with Taylor on shark conservation efforts for decades.įox said Taylor had mixed feelings about his work on Jaws, which terrified beachgoers but ultimately helped draw attention to the intimidating yet often threatened animals. Ron Taylor, a beloved Australian marine conservationist who helped film some of the terrifying underwater footage used in the classic shark thriller Jaws, has died after a long battle with cancer, a close family friend said.
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