I haven't posted those. I'll post them later. At the moment, a news
agency or two has been given the URL to these photos to use if they need
shots of the incident. I didn't want shots of her posing with a big
grin showing up in the LA Times.
Derek wrote:
Oustanding job! I'm a Westsider who doesn't get to the valley much, so this is
the first I've seen of the Orange Line. Where are the pictures of your wife
smiling with the firemen? (My wife wants to know).
Derek
P.S. You had a 90 min delay? Sounds like LA mass transit at work!
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