The Camera can capture some fantastic moments....
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Wacky Racer said:
LukeBird said:
Blukoo said:
I love that picture! 
I'd like a print of that on my wall
For the first time ever in the United States, the famous French photographer, Jean Guichard, made an official personal appearance to autograph his world famous lighthouse prints at Lighthouse Depot in Wells, Maine.
He is best known for his explosive “Wave” photograph of a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, France, showing a keeper at the door about to be engulfed by a titanic wave. The photograph is truly one of the most recognizable lighthouse photographs in the world. When first seeing the famous photograph, most people assume that the lighthouse keeper must have been killed.
In fact, the keepers had been living in fear of death during the 1989 storm and at one point had taken refuge in the lantern room of the tower. Waves the night before had smashed through the lower windows of the tower, causing the structure to flood, washing away everything in its path including the television, table, chairs, coffee maker and even the refrigerator. The keepers in fact were waiting to be rescued by helicopter.
As Jean Guichard’s helicopter approached the tower he was unaware that the keepers were waiting for a rescue helicopter. Guichard was simply there to take photographs of the waves pounding the structure. The keepers heard the sound of the helicopter and naturally assumed it was the rescue helicopter. One of the keepers opened the lower door of the structure and as he looked up at the helicopter and realized that it was not the rescue chopper, he also realized that a giant wave was about to engulf the tower. He immediately turned about and pulled the door closed behind him. Had he not done so at that second, he surely would have been killed. While all this was happening, Jean Guichard was busy taking photographs as fast as he could click the camera, thus capturing on film the most dramatic action shots ever taken at a lighthouse.
As regards to everything being washed away, not true. Windows are only on one side, facing the shore, and even if everything was "washed away" how did the fridge get out, through the window!
It also says they were up in the lantern tower, then why did he need to come down to open the door and have a look when he could have just looked out the vast huge glass top of the lighthouse.
There are some closups of the lighthouse keeper and to be honest he doesnt look that fussed.
I know all this as my mate did a thesis (whatever that is) at Uni on it and met the great man himself.
ETA Great picture all the same.
Edited by GTIR on Monday 30th June 20:52
all the same!
schmalex said:
not a good outcome from that one i'm afraid
"An NH90 helicopter, serialled MM81519 EI-202 of the 1 Gr Sq of the Italian Army based in Viterbo crashed on June 1, in the Bracciano Lake at 15.15L causing the death of Cap. Filippo Fornassi. The other 2 POB (People On Board) were rescued and survived the injuries."
Edited by dogboy on Monday 30th June 23:16
I love the look on the dog's face in the last pic - like something out of a roadrunner cartoon
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