Benazir Bhutto’s suicide bomb explosion caught on camera: this could well be the photographs of the year
December 28th, 2007There’s no time to compose, no time to change lens, no time to do manual setting.
Everything happened in a flash, then total chaos.
20 yards in front of the car, still stunned by the 3 shots being fired at Ms Bhutto and witnessing her slumping back into the vehicle she was in, John Moore, Getty Images photographer captured the following images as the explosion happened and the first few seconds after it:
Photos taken while being pushed around by panicking thousands
The only special thing is perhaps the motor drive being used: professional-grade digital still cameras from Canon and Nikon can take 10 pictures per second.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL BEEN IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME OR WRONG TIME!!! BAHAYA BOSSSS
I would have missed the shot for my first reaction would be to flee. This guy first reaction would have been to press the shutter and fire away the shots. I guess photographers are trained that way..
Photographers = crazy people. I’ve been telling my dad that since forever. (he’s a photographer)
=P
perghh… i dont know what happen if photographer dead and left the camera with tragedy’s picture to someone else….
photographer is unique and sharp person…