Sobering Shot

wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
edited March 17, 2004 in The Big Picture
I just ran across this shot from 9/11. It shows a man trapped on a burning floor of the WTC on 9/11. It's hard to see him, he's so small and the damage is so great.

Very sad photo.
Sid.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    Here's one of those pics I wish I'd taken. Another example from the Pulitzer prize winners' exhibits.

    Fire retardant.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
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  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    I just ran across this shot from 9/11. It shows a man trapped on a burning floor of the WTC on 9/11. It's hard to see him, he's so small and the damage is so great.

    Very sad photo.

    I don't see him. Can you point an arrow at him?
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    Don't tell Charles...

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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Don't tell Charles...

    2911727-L.jpg
    I still don't see him. ne_nau.gif
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    He's tiny. He's at the tip of the arrow. There's a small dark space, and then him. He's wearing tan slacks, and what might be a dark sweater. To the right of him is a white column that ends at about his head level. His head is at roughly the same parallel as the tip of the arrow. All of this is within 3 mm of the tip of the arrow.
    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • zero-zerozero-zero Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    Here.
  • cletuscletus Registered Users Posts: 1,930 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    fish wrote:
    I still don't see him. ne_nau.gif
    I see him just fine. Maybe you need a LaCie 22" so you can see him too!
    ab0wa.smugmug.com
  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
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    Sid.
    Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam
    http://www.mcneel.com/users/jb/foghorn/ill_shut_up.au
  • DoctorItDoctorIt Administrators Posts: 11,951 moderator
    edited March 17, 2004
    zero-zero wrote:
    Here.
    Can you imagine what that poor person must have been thinking? Wow.
    Erik
    moderator of: The Flea Market [ guidelines ]

  • fishfish Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited March 17, 2004
    Ah...now I see it. Thanks. Eek.
    "Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk." - Edward Weston
    "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."-Hunter S.Thompson
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