Photo by Christopher Peterson/BuzzFoto.com
Nothing goes up forever. The easy money in the paparazzi industry was made a couple of years ago. Those wonderful days may come back, but it will take half of the paparazzi in town to leave the industry. There are just too many photos on the market today. Plain and simple. Tight market or not, Buzz Foto continues to grow and seek the best paparazzi imagery available.
If you are a freelancer and working legally, we can broker your photos or better yet, in this tight market, we can purchase them outright. You will be paid promptly and fairly. We would love to feature your iconic paparazzi imagery on these pages!
The Starwood was the best place to hook up with someone. If you could not connect with someone there, you had one last chance over at Meat Rack in the parking lot of the Rainbow Bar & Grill at 2am. After 3am Meat Rack was done and you were all alone for the evening.
Hooking up with someone at The Starwood was only half the fun as the place was loaded with rock and roll stars all the time. On this one evening Robert Plant dropped by to see Kim Flowley and his band, The Runaways. That is our pal Michael Des Barres hanging with Plant.
Plant was thrilled with his custom Runaways t shirt, a gift from photographer Richard Creamer. This photo really struck a nerve and was all over the world.
Funny how we still remember the smell of the Starwood. Kind of a combination of puke and piss. We will never forget those odors!
Do you have any idea how many times we have heard this over the years? Yes, and most of the time it is just hot air, but it is a bit scary when you are 16 and Robert Plant comes after you with his bodyguards at your very own park in Encino. Plant went nuts when our Buzz Foto photographer shot this in 1978. ” Give me your business card”. ” You will never work again”. It was not amusing back then, but now we can laugh it off. In fact we ran into Plant at our hotel in Paris a few years ago and had a nice laugh. Remember you newbie Paparazzos, if you are in public place and the stars start to yell at you, just tell them to get a life. Enjoy your 4 th of July and run out and take some nice iconic photos of Paris and Lindsay this weekend.
