On Jan 29, 2009, at 16:07 , Doug Franklin wrote:
Bob Sullivan wrote:
Look again, I think that's a bridge abutment that protected him.
He looks like he is standing on the down road side of a concrete
bridge.
I'll have to watch it again, because I missed that. In that case,
I'll cut him some slack. :-) I still don't think it's the safest
place he had out there to get good shots.
Whatever it was, it certainly did not move when hit by that car. He
was lucky that pieces of torn off debris didn't cut him up.
Still not much of a place to roost...
Assuming that /is/ a bridge abutment, I'd look to see if I could get
a couple of feet down the bank on the up track side of the creek,
shooting back to that rise where they initially come into view. I
think you could get some dramatic shots from that low angle, and you
can hide under the bridge if the world comes apart up on the road.
What I can't fathom is why that car hit the immovable object in the
first place. It may have gotten light when it crested the rise, but it
was fully down on it's suspension shortly thereafter, and seemingly in
control. Perhaps he was trying to start a drift to cross the bridge
between the abutments and discovered he had more traction than he
could deal with, or didn't crank the wheel enough to break loose.
What was even more interesting was the camera shooting the incident.
It was a little shaken, but remained running. And it looked like the
car plowed right into whatever was protecting it. May have been some
foreshortening using a longish lens. We'll never know, I suppose.
Joseph McAllister
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