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David Adolphus
12-15-2009, 10:42 AM
If you haven't seen this (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234929/Cheating-death-The-moment-British-photographer-narrowly-escapes-crushed-runaway-drag-race-car.html), you might enjoy it.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/11/article-1234929-076E8CB9000005DC-12_964x635.jpg
John Thawley
12-15-2009, 10:50 AM
Images are a bit soft. LOL
David Adolphus
12-15-2009, 10:52 AM
I noticed that. I mean, if these are going to be your epitaph, at least take the time to compose the shot properly.
Blake Blakely
12-15-2009, 02:00 PM
Uhhh...take the time? LOL!
John Thawley
12-15-2009, 04:05 PM
Prince Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.
Prince Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.
Perry Bennett
12-15-2009, 07:31 PM
Biggest Balls EVER.

I bet that's his entry for "You've Got one shot - 2009"

LOL


The writer sensationalized the speed a LOT... as the car wasn't traveling 250mph at the time it crashed. It had just left the line. Either way, the man clanks when he walks thats for sure.
Todd Corzett
12-15-2009, 07:41 PM
Seriously, wow. I didn't attend that event this year, but it would have been almost exactly where I would have been standing... just showed the video to my mother and she said, "well, at least you'd go doing something you enjoy".

Link to Jalopnik (http://jalopnik.com/5427221/drag-racing-photographer-has-steel-balls-death-wish) (w/video)

-Todd...
Dany Flageole
12-15-2009, 10:01 PM
Watatatow!!!
Daniel Buck
12-16-2009, 12:30 AM
Wow, haha! Well, things are alot different when you are looking through a lens, war photographers often have this odd sense of courage when they are looking through a lens, at least from what I've heard.

Crazy though, hah!
Bob Chapman
12-16-2009, 04:33 AM
That is why I often stand behind Dole when shooting trackside. No mere careening hunk of metal would dare encroach such sacred space.
John Thawley
12-16-2009, 12:39 PM
That is why I often stand behind Dole when shooting trackside. No mere careening hunk of metal would dare encroach such sacred space.

And why I stand behind you. ;)
Dave Verna
12-16-2009, 12:45 PM
I just had an associate shoot with me at a drag race recently - they leaned up against the wall and were prepared to shoot - when I recommended they step back - it was the first car down the cold track and sure enough a wheelstand went wrong and the car slid from side to side , not hitting the wall or anything, but it was a comical moment when they looked at me and said - "I guess I told you so is in order?"

Drag racing can get out of shape rather quickly at any point in the track.

This is the first time I saw him image - there were others showing his proximity to the cars - and wow! what a close call!