Soda Jerk Posted May 31, 2012 Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 West Yorkshire. Best Yorkshire. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TelecasterSam Posted May 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2012 West Yorkshire. Best Yorkshire.got it right Soda "where ahsta bin since ah saw thee..... " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Flights Posted June 1, 2012 Report Share Posted June 1, 2012 Diane Arbus was hot back in the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I kinda dread re-starting this trainwreck of a thread but I couldn't think of anywhere else to post this, and I wanted to share it (although it is a month old, I've only just seen it). If you haven't seen the story, basically a guy got chucked in front of a train in the New York subway, as he was trying to scramble out before the train reached him, a nearby photographer grabbed his camera and tried to use the flash to warn the driver. It didn't work, and what he ended up with was a bunch of photos of a guy getting crushed to death by a train. The New York post ran one of them on the front page.It's a striking image, and begs the question, surely to fuck the guy could have done something a bit more useful than flashing a camera. He doesn't look that far away. People are even questioning whether he intentionally started snapping instead of helping in the hope of getting a memorable photograph. I'd hope nobody would actually really do that, but it is a remarkably clear picture.Anyway, enough rambling.http://gawker.com/5965659/would-you-have-taken-the-post-subway-photo-pulitzer+winning-photographers-respond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I don't believe he flashed his camera to make the driver aware, that's just a load of shit to make it sound like he's not a dickhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 Such an unnatural reaction. Who would think to use the flash when a man is desperately scrambling for his life in the face of an extraordinarily bloody and gruesome death?A man can't help if he's frozen in shock or fear and doesn't help, but he obviously had the presence of mind to take the photo of a man dying and was by no means static. He should have used that awareness to drag the man up, or at least try. He could have been saved.That's what I think. I hope not though because I don't want to lose all faith in humanity. IF it is what it seems to be, I hope the photographer is tortured and racked with his guilty conscience before blowing his fucking brains out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 It does seem really strange. I really hope someone wouldn't do that, but there are some fucking cunts in the world, and like I say, it's a remarkably clear and well-lined up picture for one taken by accident.He's obviously not frozen in fear if he has the presence of mind to try and use the flash to signal the driver. If that is true, it's quick thinking but a fucking stupid idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 No doubt in my mind he thought 'oh shit... I'm gonna win a Pulitzer right now'It sounds like a really Shitty reaction but I'm kinda on the fence about it. Firstly, there's no way he could have saved him - you just don't go anyway near the track when a train is coming - that would have been two deaths instead of one. The drop is aboit 8 feet so it would take a fit person at least 15 seconds to pull themself up and who knows if he could speed that up any - I doubt it. But, taking a photo is tasteless. Or is it? im sure most photographers will say taking photos becomes a reflex. He is a journalist, and by documenting incidents, however grim, he is making his contribution to the world. Should photographers during the Sudanese famine be giving out bread instead of taking photos to alert the rest of the world to the issue? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 I think it's impossible to say whether or not he could have saved him. We don't know how long it took the photographer to line up the photograph, and that time could have been spent rushing towards the man and attempting to pull him up. It's certainly difficult to climb and lift yourself up such a height, but with the leverage of another person, I think it's plausible to think he could have been saved. Then again, I don't know how fast the train was going either, and if it was beginning to come to a halt at that station, or of it was intending to go straight past the platform but started to slam the brakes on.If successful at saving him, it doesn't stop him from documenting the incident and still contributing from a journalistic viewpoint, but in my opinion, I think it does show he'd rather have a photograph of the incident than just an eye witness report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TelecasterSam Posted January 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Marlo Stanfield? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl PhD Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 These pictures have featured a bit in the media over the past few days. Taken by Tim Holmes of his grandchildren sheltering from the fires in Tasmania: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Beijing on 3rd JanuaryBeijing on 14th JanuaryThe cloud is pollution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 I know it's not nice to make a joke, I hope they're all okay (though, is this not the same as the New York train death photo? What's he doing with a cemra in the water when he should be, I don't know, building a submarine or soemthing...) but...The kid with the sunglasses is cool as fuck. That's a down town kid. Not phased at all. Sunglasses. Always. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 I know it's not nice to make a joke, I hope they're all okay (though, is this not the same as the New York train death photo? What's he doing with a cemra in the water when he should be, I don't know, building a submarine or soemthing...) but...The kid with the sunglasses is cool as fuck. That's a down town kid. Not phased at all. Sunglasses. Always.Apparently the photographer here is their grandfather.. I'm sure I read that somewhere. So I assume he took the snap, and got back to trying to survive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Apparently the photographer here is their grandfather.. I'm sure I read that somewhere. So I assume he took the snap, and got back to trying to survive.That wouldn't have been in the original post would it? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 Whether it's the grandfather or not is irrelevant...why does he have a camera while up to his neck in water and why is he taking pictures rather than getting the fuck out of dodge?Still...sunglasses...cool as fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaaakkkeee Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 That wouldn't have been in the original post would it?Yes, that's where I saw it. I don't know why, but I thought Teabags' post was the original. Woops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 I thought the whole point of being in the water was to protect from being toasted alive on the land where the fire was raging. Not sure about the photo's unless it was a camera phone it was taken on. To be honest they probably could have stayed on the jetty until it started burning.I just hope the dog was ok. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flights Posted January 16, 2013 Report Share Posted January 16, 2013 The kid with the sunglasses is cool as fuck. That's a down town kid. Not phased at all. Sunglasses. Always.Giggling like fuck to this.He looks so relaxed. Hell has opened up in front of him and he's chilling in the lake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattJimF Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 The hill fire near Fort William - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21999542 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Android Posted April 2, 2013 Report Share Posted April 2, 2013 I hate that picture. What's it supposed to mean?I see two women. One of them posed and photographed in order to look as glamorous as possible, the other a candid shot of someone (not posing for the camera) enjoying herself at the beach.Both are incredibly thin. Marilyn Monroe wasn't "incredibly" thin. edit - just realised this is from the very start of this thread and I'd actually already responded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Broonbreed Posted April 3, 2013 Report Share Posted April 3, 2013 I thought the whole point of being in the water was to protect from being toasted alive on the land where the fire was raging. Not sure about the photo's unless it was a camera phone it was taken on. To be honest they probably could have stayed on the jetty until it started burning.I just hope the dog was ok. Maybe they were trying to stay cooler in the water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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