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Response to Scenes From Our Life (Response #38)

Uploaded 447 Days Ago by kpaul - 13 comments


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bioLarzen said 447 days ago:

Seems we have a firefighter onboard! Great metallic shine! Seems a bit out of focus, but it's presumably due to having been taken from a vehicle, so it doesn't count :)

Very high marks!

zorilla said 447 days ago:

i'm totally mystified

kpaul said 447 days ago:

@Bio: heh. nope. i'm the publisher of a grassroots journalism website - which means i wear a lot of hats, including that of photog on the scene covering a fire. i don't know. i know it's not technically the best, but i just kinda like this photo. thanks for the comments.

@zorilla: how so? ;)

-kpaul

Flatline said 447 days ago:

Man, I hope seeing them regularly means that you are a fireman, not that your house keeps catching on fire :-)

kpaul said 447 days ago:

that's the thing about shooting for news - you get a lot of variety. ;)

Ana said 447 days ago:

Gentleman, you are all in danger. If an earthquake or a bomb should hit this room right now, I might be the only doctor available to all of you. Oh sure, independently owned ambulances with attendants would be here in a few minutes, and rescue units from the fire department. But all they could do is carry you off to where another doctor is waiting. I wonder if you could all last that long. Now, what about first-aid? Sure, these men are permitted to render some elementary first-aid. Like your mother did when some kid bloodied your nose, or your wife when she pulls a sliver out of your finger. Have any of you seen a freeway accident lately? I mean up close, where you can't tell the bodies from the steel. Or, have any of you had a heart attack recently? Seventy percent of all cardiac cases never live long enough to reach a hospital. How do you think your mother, or your wife, or the good-guy next door would make out under those conditions? Well, those *are* the conditions we're talking about. Now, I've given you the impression I'm in favor of fire department personnel, with a crash course in emergency medicine, taking human lives into their own hands. I am not. I'd like to see a specialist handling every bloody nose, so we'd know whether it's the result of a good right-cross or a tumor. I'd like to see a cardiologist on the scene every time someone drops in the street with a killing pain in his chest. But, you can't ask someone not to die while you're trying to find out what's wrong with him. And they *do* die, gentlemen; on the way from where it happens to my hospital. They die by the hundreds every year; not from mortal wounds, but from neglected wounds. Not from incompetence or indifference but from time, from lack of time. I'm in favor of more doctors, more hospitals and better equipment. And, I'm also in favor of this bill until those other things come along, because it *will* save lives. Maybe a dozen lives, maybe a thousand, maybe just one. And, who knows which one? Thank you, gentleman, for your time.

mysight said 447 days ago:

You are one of our heroes I assume.
Fine light and great color!

mysight said 447 days ago:

Well you photograph heroes.
So Ana you are a hero too!

beckn32 said 444 days ago:

I like the composition with the first truck in front of the other, but I really wish those cars weren't in the shot. Can't be helped, I'm sure. Nicely done.

kpaul said 444 days ago:

thanks. and you're right, i shoulda framed it a little better.

-kpaul

Hummingbird said 444 days ago:

Are you a firefighter or do you just come upon them all the time like I do?

kpaul said 444 days ago:

i chased this one down. ;)

-kpaul

photoaddiction said 442 days ago:

I like the reflection on the windshield.

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