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Re: [OM] Missed photo-op of the week...

Subject: Re: [OM] Missed photo-op of the week...
From: "R. Lee Hawkins" <lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 11:24:17 -0500
Cc: lhawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In your message dated: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:04:01 PST you write:
>
>
>  Hi Lee,
>
>    Was just talking to someone about a simular experience a couple months bac
>  I was on my way home from work (commute by bus) and we passed this really ba
>  accident. A 240z had been centerpunched by a larger, older vehicle. The 
>  accident scene was surrounded by emergency vehicles and firemen with yellow
>  raincaots had cut the top off the Z and were hovering over the driver's side
>  and trying to extract the victim. You had to be there, but it was a classic
>  Pulitzer prize winning shot, the kind photo journalist's reputations soar
>  on. And yes, I had no camera with me. One of the things they teach in photo
>  classes that just doesn't sink in. We learn the hard way:)

I understand your point, but for me personally, I would never consider 
missing a picture of someone else's suffering as missing "the shot of a
lifetime"...

Cheers,
--Lee

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