While perusing the pages of this newspaper on a daily basis, one cannot fail to notice Rob Fountain's credit line as staff photographer. He started his photojournalist journey at age 22 when he purchased a 35mm Olympus OM-10 and walked into the Saranac Lake offices of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. "I was friends with the sports editor there, Jim Stowell," Fountain said. "He said if I was interested, I could take high-school football photos for him, so he didn't have to. I started being their sports photographer on Saturdays. I did that for some time. Then their photographer quit, and they asked me to take over." FINE-ARTS ASPECT When Fountain first started, he knew little, formally, about photojournalism. "The publisher, Cathy Moore, told me to fill up the frame and come up with a single photo that best tells the story of the whole situation.
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