Re: [Leica] get the shot or walk on by?

[LawsonCL@aol.com]

In response to strangely lowercase KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu's question below, 
the answer is simple: get the shot. But don't shoot the dead chick; shoot the 
stunned boyfriend. Shoot the stunned crowd as the outraged boyfriend thumps 
you soundly. Shoot the concerned paramedics as they load you into the meat 
wagon. Shoot the unconcerned ER docs as they let you sit bleeding for eight 
hours in the waiting room. Shoot yourself walking home, untreated, to suffer 
in the comfort of your own home.

Then--and this is the important part--do not do as the whining, publicly 
self-conscious simps at the Denver Post and the Denver Rocky Mountain News 
just announced today and give up your Pulitzer Prize cash award to the 
something like the City Bus Road Kill Victims' Relief Fund. Oh, no. Blow that 
$5,000.00 boost on some new Leica equipment.

We'll respect you for it.

Chris Lawson
 

> so, totally unrelated hypotheical question ... you just happen to be
>  standing around (with your leica of course, because you always carry it 
with
>  you) and you witness a Tragic Event, say some girl gets killed by a bus. 
and
>  everybody standing nearby is shocked and in that couple seconds, you whip
>  your camera up to your eye and her boyfriend goes "don't take a photograph
>  of my girlfriend, you @#$@#, she's dead!" and you're like "get bent dude,
>  this is a public place." and you snap a shot, or two, the paramedics show
>  up, you rush down to the local newspaper with your photo, they print it 
huge
>  on page one. so how do you feel about it the next day? little sad?
>  disgruntled someone called you a @#$@#? happy for the page one? happy to be
>  out shooting w/ your leica? optomistic that your shot will improve bus
>  safety in the future? feel? i don't feel, i'm a photographer.