Pensacola Beach, 1972ish • Dave Skelton captured some of Yancy Spencer III’s backside style with the old wooden pier in the background. Dave was using the coolest equipment of the time – a Nikonos water camera. It had no light meter, or motor drive. It used film, meaning he had 24, or 36 chances to capture the right moments – using a lot of guesswork, with no guarantee that any images would turn out. Then he had to mail the film off and pay for each image to be developed.
It was a little harder to capture good images back then.