Wipe your lens.

By Hollums written 9/10/06 7:51 PM, published 9/10/06 7:51 PM

Theres no photos for this story.  Just some ideas and testimonials.  Is that the right word?  Just tonight i watched the documentary on 911.  It is a very powerful and very well crafted documentary, all in its ironic starting point.  The photographer was stationed in a firehouse before 911 to shoot a documentary on becoming a man, essentially.  When the first plane hit the tower, he was in the street with the firemen checking a gas leak.  I'm sure this is a familiar story with a lot of you.  The man was in the tower when its neighbor collapsed, filling the area with dust and debris.  On the camera, everything went black, until his on board light got switched on.  When it did, he immediately reached up with what seemed to be his bare hands to wipe his lens off.  That my friends, was a sight and a thought that wont ever leave my head.  In the midst of the terror that was flowing like water around him and his mates, all he can think in his head is "this needs to be filmed".  So he wiped the dust that was caked on his camera and continued documenting the happenings around him.  Throughout the rest of the dust, he continuously cleared his lens.  What a philosophy to spread to all photographers world wide... If your lens gets dirty, wipe it.


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