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Hard News: The Snappers

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  • recordari,

    Stevens, who survived a similar crash in Alaska in 1978 that killed his wife, was on a junket to a fishing lodge...

    That's quite tragic, which ever way you look at it. You would think that surviving one crash would give you some sort of credit in the probability stakes, if not statistically, then at least prodigiously*.

    * Not sure this is the best word, but it conveys some of what I mean...

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Lucy Stewart,

    That's quite tragic, which ever way you look at it. You would think that surviving one crash would give you some sort of credit in the probability stakes, if not statistically, then at least prodigiously*.

    Probability is a bitch.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2105 posts Report

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Stevens... was on a junket to a fishing lodge courtesy of a telecoms company when the
    aircraft came down in bad weather in a
    remote part of the state.

    I hear the cellphone coverage in remote fishing areas is very good, even in New Zealand...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Ross Mason,

    I hear the cellphone coverage in remote fishing areas is very good, even in New Zealand...

    Only if you have a scots accent and can't tell a joke isn't it?

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Rich Lock,

    I like that one. A lot.

    see, now there's a conversation starter...

    heading back to Southerly now...;- )

    Not entirely sure how that would work in a social situation, though.

    I'm imagining Recordari sidling up to me furtively, possibly wearing a grubby, stained macintosh, and whispering hoarsely in my ear: 'wanna see some photos?'

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report

  • recordari,

    I'm imagining Recordari sidling up to me furtively, possibly wearing a grubby, stained macintosh, and whispering hoarsely in my ear: 'wanna see some photos?'

    That is a totally salacious fabrication.

    It would be a fishtail parka.

    AUCKLAND • Since Dec 2009 • 2607 posts Report

  • Hadyn Green,

    Jed, who takes photos for me on occasion sent these through the other day:
    A sports team that wants to control images taken of it

    and the death of photojournalism

    Both Jed and Mike have tried to sell their images to newspapers/magazines and have been told that sadly there is no money for buying photos.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 2090 posts Report

  • George Darroch,

    Thanks Hadyn. Depressing stuff.

    Any ideas how we go forward from here?

    WLG • Since Nov 2006 • 2264 posts Report

  • Rich Lock,

    Pictures certainly do. Was the response to the fact that the reproduction was so instant? What would the old man have said if he saw them the next day? The moment. Is it captured for ever? Is it real? Is it as real as a portrait? Is the shadow highlighting the wrinkle as special as that dab in just the right place?

    Why DO we travel and why is taking our own pictures so important it is the first thing we do when we get there? Should it be the last?

    Then we leave. Gone....but now no longer forgotten.

    We snap our fingers...Refreshing our minds eye via flashed pixeled memory.

    Ross that is a surreal post to read after just putting down Watchmen.

    Everyday the future grows a little bit darker, but the past just keeps getting brighter?

    Or you could try this one (not 'watchmen', but still):

    All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in the rain

    back in the mother countr… • Since Feb 2007 • 2728 posts Report

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