Well done, Larry. Very good for on the spot reportage photography, and great documentation. The insurance companies should purchase these images.
I also like you portfolio of crash images. Quite an interesting collection. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't planning on taking any photos tonight. > > I was sitting at my computer, and heard a familiar squeel-thump! Though it > was more of a clang than a thump. I grabbed my cell phone and camera and > walked up to the twin bridges. As I walked up I called 911 when I saw a car > facing southbound in the northbound lane, with a wheel sitting some distance > away. There were several people standing around. None of them were the > drivers of the cars, though one rather inebriated fellow had been a passenger. > The drivers, one definitely drunk the other likely high on something else, > both hightailed it off on foot, in opposite directions. > > I think this one, while not the sharpest, best captures the moment: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/9566589543/ > > For fans of bent sheet metal, the rest of the set: > http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157635184466984/ > > Having lived here a big chunk of the past 40 years, several of them before > I got my drivers license, I've seen a lot of wrecks in front of my house, > for values of "in front" < 250m. I learned several things before I even > got my drivers license: > > 1) Almost all of the wrecks were caused by drunks, with teenagers > driving beyond their abilities coming in a distant second. > > 2) People who wore their seat belts did not get hurt. > > 3) People who didn't wear their seat belt got hurt. > > And as a bonus, for them that really enjoy pictures of wrecks, crashes > and other destruction: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157608363486923/ > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
