Ahh... don't fault yourself. You were there with your tools, doing exactly
the same thing a newspaper photographer would have done if they were
present. Hanging a little low was probably a good idea... but really no one
should be paying attention to a photographer when there's a crisis...
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:36:28 -0800
Thanks. I was just kind of snapping away, but too timid to really stick my
nose in it. I was afraid that eventually they would ask me to stop if I
got too aggressive. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have worried.
They were all too busy with their big scene to bother me. As I look the
shots over I quickly see they're nowhere near my best work. I guess I
myself was a little flustered, plus, as I mentioned, I didnt' want to be
too obvious.
The thought did cross my mind that if I got too obvious they would assume I
was just a passer-by with a camera rather than one of the accident victims,
and escort me out from within the police taped boundry.
Tom C wrote:
Just viewed them all. Excellent job. I love the irony :-( of the Fresh
Cut Flowers and Easy to Get Across the Valley shots.
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: Re: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:21:33 -0800
The last shot in the sequence is of a kid that was interviewed by a local
reporter via his wife's cell phone. His wife then put me on the phone
and he asked me to snap a shot of the kid. No problem.
Tom C wrote:
Still waiting for the photos to come in. Great job! Gigantic kudos for
having your camera with you. My camera is always with me, if not just
outside in the car.
Looking forward to seeing them as they download. Work Pentax in there
somehow.
Tom C.
From: David Oswald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: "pentax-discuss@pdml.net" <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Subject: PESO: The scene of an accident.
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:30:36 -0800
Los Angeles introduced a new bus line on the 29th of October. It is a
rapid line that runs on a road all its own called "Busway", thorough
the middle of the San Fernando Valley, connecting Woodland Hills /
Warner Center with the Metrolink subway system starting in North
Hollywood. The busyway has synchronized traffic lights that keep the
bus moving all the time. This means that as the busline road crosses
major streets, traffic stops on those surface roads.
I rode the Orange Line today as a novelty, to see how the experience
was going to be. My wife came with me. We had been on the bus for
less than two minutes, when suddenly it was struck by a fast moving car
that ran its red light. The car broadsided the bus. The car was
seriously damaged, and driver taken to the hospital in critical
condition (she was later upgraded to stable).
We were then put through a triage routine by the first responders to
determine who (if anyone) was injured. Mostly any injuries were just
people pretending to be injured, thinking their gravy train had come
in. Despicable really. Anyway, it held us all up by about 90 minutes.
Fortunately I had my camera.
Taken with the *ist-DS, and the DA16-45 lens....
http://users.adelphia.net/~daoswald/pictures/index.html
Warning: It's about 4.5 megabytes of photos that will load.
I posted the pictures quickly because a woman riding on the bus with us
is married to a reporter. Quickly he was on the cell with me
requesting any of the pictures I took. ...I had to remove the ones
where my wife was posing, smiling next to the firefighters. It seemed
a little inappropriate after the fact. ;)
Dave
