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How Ozzie Taught Me to Shoot

Pete Lyons
Indy 500, 1966. Crash at start. Photo & Caption: Ozzie Lyons

From time to time someone asks how I got into this business – apparently it looks like fun – and I explain it’s all been thanks to my dad. He taught me to shoot.

Not that Ozzie Lyons made me follow his footsteps to a career in photography; but when I began showing a trophy hunter’s interest in pictures of racecars, he was ready to lend pro-level equipment and patient, fatherly advice.

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