2007 Photos: Funeral Volley by Lloyd Fox
(Nikon D2Xs Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 @ 116mm, 1/640 sec. @ f/13, ISO 250)
Photo by Lloyd Fox/Baltimore Sun staff
This is a beautiful photograph by Sun photographer Lloyd Fox. It is from a very sad, difficult situation. Racheal Wilson, a firefighter recruit, was killed in a live-fire training accident on Feb. 9 that Baltimore city officials say went terribly awry. A three-volley salute was fired in her honor during the Feb. 16 funeral at the Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.
The subdued color, only evident in the blue sky and the tint in the white gloves, creates a somber mood very easily conveyed. That mood is even more evident by dark funeral marker, the strategically included in the composition. Lloyd is an amazing photographer, and it is not surprising he made such a bittersweet image.
Comments
This IS a great picture..
What gets me is that when I 'step out' of the picture and think like a photographer, I see where the guy is taking the shot from.
What troubles me is that in the middle of a 21 gun salute, at a large funeral, this photographer is DOWNRANGE and in the view (presumably) of the entire funeral.
I have to wonder if he's ruining the effect for the people there..
..on the other hand, it does create a very respectful record of the event, something that the family and others can look at and remember with respect the ceremony
Unless of course when they see the picture all they can recall is a photographer laying on the ground in front of the color guard.
So I'm torn. Anybody else?
Posted by: torn | January 10, 2008 5:52 AM
At 116mm, he's actually probably pretty far away. Far enough to be out of the line of immediate sight (and gunfire), at least.
Posted by: mary | January 10, 2008 10:26 PM