Originally Posted by fish:
I'm an old school photographer. It was an unwritten rule that if you knew you had just witnessed a fatality, you quit taking pictures. If by chance you got pictures, they were trash that no one would ever see.
I ended up working in the newspaper business and as a sports guy it ticked me off if the news guys published a graphic car crash with a fatality (and I told them more than once).
I realize things are different nowadays, as everyone has a camera and you can find anything on the internet. But please, if any of you IOW faithful are at a racetrack and the worst happens, put the camera away. And please, do not do like some fool in New Jersey did and post it on twitter.
Have things changed so much that we can't show some respect?
Jim Fisher
Nice post and i totally agree. My Dad has some video footage of two racing fatalities, i was at the tracks and seen them but he has never let me see the footage he shot and he is my Dad!