On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:05:03AM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > 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.
Thanks. I don't know if you noticed the set with the car nose down, leaning against my garage. That was particularly entertaing because I was downstairs in the garage at the time. I heard squeeling tires, a motorcycle horn, a couple of thumps then a very loud thump as the car hit the building I was in. When the sherrif spun out in the rain and hit the guard rail, I was having a challenging time balancing the expsure with the speedlight, flashing lights, wet reflections etc. The deputy eventually got rather annoyed at my continuing attempts to get a clean shot. One of the shots of the accident that it my racecar actually did make it into the paper. It can be an entertaining place to live. When I was a kid, the CHP used to just leave us flares to put out when there was a wreck. > > 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. -- 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.
