The Most Stunning News Photo of 2010 Thus Far
This is, by far, one of the most amazing and humbling news photos I have ever seen, taken in the final moments before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig vanished beneath the waves.
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Here’s another very similar shot, but with more fire.
Sadly, I’m clueless as to who snapped this photo so I don’t know who to thank. If anyone has some insight into this, I will gladly chirp the content creator’s name to the heavens. I’ve seen it referenced as a shot taken by a “DOE contractor” (Department of Energy, I presume), but that’s not very specific.
Most of the other news photos of the Deepwater Horizon rig burning are either aerial shots or taken from a great distance, making the full scope of such an enormous disaster seem, well, not as big. This image is unique in that the photographer appears to be much closer to the rig in its final, dramatic moments and the sense of scale conveyed is nothing short of epic.
As one of my colleagues remarked, it looks like something straight out of a James Cameron film.
If someone on the Internet makes this image into a motivational poster, I hope they’ll subtitle it, “Hubris: When you know you fucked up.”
Here’s a video of the rig’s last hurrah, shot from a much greater distance …
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Looks like pictures of the old U.S.S. Lexington going down in early WWII. Hopefully the U.S. will also somehow win this one.
I spent the night on that boat once. It was restored and parked in Corpus Christi, a city I was lucky enough to visit as a kid. A very eerie presence hangs over it, like perpetual death. The cafeteria food was alright though.
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