THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE
DOUBLE TAKES
TT'S A DULL DAY
very often the two Bille Pinneys aren't out shooting pictures. From frigid Labrador and Iceland to the tropical jungles of Central and South America, this famous photographle team has tracked ils, “quarry."\
when Roy and Doris Pinney-and
Preity Doris Pinney: Is a former model who cano from her spot before a camera and went behind it to be- come a photographer of bables when nho married the one-time naturalist, Together, they have combined their talents and are ready at the click of a shutter to inke off at any moment in one of their two planes on travel assignments for top magazines, advertising accounts or scientific expeditions. The couple's latest job is n 30- day jaunt to Colombia, where they'll try for more of their famous underwater shola,
When travelling about the U, S. or Central America, the Finneys often take along Roy, Jr., 3, and Tor, 1.
In the clear waters off Nassau, Bahamas, Roy Pinney makes a movie of wealthy sportsman Roy Halvorson tussling with a Hawkablli turtle. He wears a special mask and lead-weighted belt.
THIS is the plexiglass-enclosed US$1,100 camera Doris Pinney used to make the remarkable underwater picture at left.
A LADDER USUALLY is a dry-land piece of equipment except when the Pinneys are around, Climbing up a few rungs to get an overhead shot, Roy snaps his wife in front of their plane.
CLIMBING aboard their BT-13 plane at Great Barrington, Mass., Roy Pinney and his family prepare to leave on a tour of the Gaspo peninsula.
This time, Roy, Jr., and Tor go along for the ride. Both tots, born in New York City, have already
travelled extensively around the country.
ON THE BANKS of the Essequibo river in British Gulona, the Pinneys persuado an Arawak Indian boy to pose outside his hut, Travelling up Essequibo, their boat overturned and they barely reached ahore before an attack by deadly piranha fish.
DEEP in the Florida Everglades, a little Seminole dresses in her Sunday best while Doris, mnapa away. Pinney figures his 30-day trip cost US$8,000 a person. He enjoys his work and is salided when he breaks even, with a little