Thursday, March 4, 2010
News Photo of the Day: Endangered species
Posted by TL Pixley on Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:24 PM
These billboards had been haunting me all day, seemingly staring at me from every corner. When I drove by this one the light was hitting it fantastically. I was returning from a photo shoot with a woman who had taken me to the empty lot where her daughter was raped two years earlier. She cried and, as I took pictures, she described her daughter being raped in an abandoned building.
Returning to the CL office I spotted the light hitting this sign and, without thinking, pulled a U-turn into oncoming traffic. An SUV was suddenly bearing down at top speed and I saw death. I could see the frightened eyes of the man driving the SUV. I somehow negotiated the U-turn and floored it, jetting towards a parking lot. I jumped out
of my car, camera in hand to photograph the sign, and ran smack into a motorcycle cop with flashing lights.
"You, you can't do that" he said surprised. I apologized.
"Consider this a warning," he said, and pulled away. I shakily took this picture and rushed to the office to make deadline.
(Photo by Joeff Davis)
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