Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can find it here: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/constellation/con-sndbar. jpg I read the story recently of how it came to be taken, but can't recall where at the moment. Tim A > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Michael > Bell > Sent: February 22, 2000 10:42 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Decisive Moment at the Speed of Sound > > > Anyone seen the photo or related stories of the guy who photographed > the jet fighter plane as it broke the sound barrier? I think the > photographer's name is John Gay. He's a military staff photographer. > He won some sort of award for the picture. I thought it was quite a > shot. You see the plane emerging out of an egg shaped cloud created > by breaking the sound barrier. > > He used one of those N cameras, but at least it was in manual mode. > > Seems like a heluva decisive moment. I have a hard enough time > shooting children running around much less something moving at over > 700 mile per hour. > > -- > Michael Bell > MBell@mail.utexas.edu > >