UGR: Photographic Life (685 hits)
Category: NoneRating: 1.26 on 23 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by ilikesteak (View user info) at 2007-08-22 03:14:39 EDT
My name is James Henton. I do not have an easy job.
1973, I was in some small village in Vietnam. We had taken the area, and it was supposed to be secured. I was with them as they were sweeping the area for mines, and I was taking pictures, as I was supposed to do. Mark's metal detector made a strange noise, and I took a picture of him looking down to see what it was. What he saw was a kid pulling the trigger. I blinked and his head was gone.
Everybody dropped. I was lying two feet away from where Mark's head should have been. I ate what could have been described as breakfast with him a few hours before. I saw pictures of his wife and kids. I saw the grenade still hanging on his belt. I saw the hole the kid was in.
I've been to riots, warzones, trials, concerts, jungles, negotiations, assasinations, and just about every other major event or place known to mankind. My job has never been boring. I've seen and done things most people have only read about, because I was the guy behind the camera in the pictures.
What they don't tell you is that photographic life is impossible. I have to live with the fact that I watched friends die, and the only thing I did was to help was to take the before and after picture. I have to live with the fact that I'm allowed to take pictures of starving children in Africa, but I'm not allowed to give them any food. I have to live with what happens after the flash.
User Reviews
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2007-08-25 13:13:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Good idea- now write the whole story.
Submitted by UA_MARINE (user info) at 2007-08-25 03:27:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/111218
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-08-23 14:58:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by Newty (user info) at 2007-08-22 12:22:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Loved the story, but wtf was the thunder cats picture for?
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2007-08-23 02:52:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Zebra (user info) at 2007-08-22 21:07:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No Comment
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2007-08-22 16:08:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by azurefroz (user info) at 2007-08-22 05:03:03 PDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That picture, by itself, would have won this competition.
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2007-08-22 15:10:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
fuck...
There goes my wartime photographer story...
square one here I come..
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-08-22 14:57:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-08-22 07:09:52 PDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-08-22 04:12:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like your story, though it was a bit underdeveloped.
Hate your picture.
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1.5
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2007-08-22 14:57:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by Newty (user info) at 2007-08-22 12:22:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Loved the story, but wtf was the thunder cats picture for?
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2007-08-22 12:08:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-08-22 11:56:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Yeah, you could have done more with the story. Fleshed it out a bit, ya know?
I... I like "Thundercats," but, but why did you use the picture???
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-08-22 10:56:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-08-22 10:56:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-08-22 10:09:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-08-22 04:12:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like your story, though it was a bit underdeveloped.
Hate your picture.
Submitted by SunnyG (user info) at 2007-08-22 09:10:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Steaky,
this was good..but I think ya coulda made it longer and awesomer. still +2
Submitted by Prime36L (user info) at 2007-08-22 08:29:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
-1 for not being Voltron.
Submitted by azurefroz (user info) at 2007-08-22 08:03:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That picture, by itself, would have won this competition.
Submitted by Progr3ss (user info) at 2007-08-22 07:10:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HOOOOOOOO!!!!
Submitted by Dr.Octagon (user info) at 2007-08-22 06:25:41 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2007-08-22 04:12:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like your story, though it was a bit underdeveloped.
Hate your picture.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-08-22 03:58:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good Work Batman
Submitted by AllyJeans (user info) at 2007-08-22 03:29:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I find myself often wondering if I would have masturbated to lion-o's sweet studly sexiness If I had been a teenager at the time of Thundercat mania.
Having a few male friends, I have asked them if they had similar thoughts about April O'Neil or Jessica Rabbit or Cheetara, but they always evade the question and/or laugh as if I were silly to ask it.
He-man was icky.