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[Not a Jellyfish]

 

[Riggs]

I remember reading about this. The photographer left after he took the picture (apparently some photographer's code of not interfering with nature) and took his own life a year or two later.

Not interfering with nature???? Hope that is not true, I would kill myself to if I just left a little starving/severely malnourished child to be eaten by a vulture.

 

[TheTruth523]

its a shame that out of the hundreds of photos taken that day on Omaha Beach only a handful survived because the developer rushed the process in his excitement to see the photos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Eleven

also this wiki article is fascinating for those interested in the mg42
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh

 

[Arment]

its a shame that out of the hundreds of photos taken that day on Omaha Beach only a handful survived because the developer rushed the process in his excitement to see the photos.


also this wiki article is fascinating for those interested in the mg42
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh

Never knew that. Kind of irks me. Patience!

 

[stufte]

 

[TheKaeptain]

Everyone's just going about their day.

Bad memories.

 

[FStop7]

I remember reading about this. The photographer left after he took the picture (apparently some photographer's code of not interfering with nature) and took his own life a year or two later.

Not interfering with nature???? Hope that is not true, I would kill myself to if I just left a little starving/severely malnourished child to be eaten by a vulture.

Journalists injecting themselves into the stories they cover can be dangerous. But in this case there's more to the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter#Alternative_account_of_the_photograph

 

[Jintor]

Now, we are all sons of bitches

 

[WJD]

oh fuck that was some scary shit

 

[Darth Pinche]

Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda

It was from the 75 best Life photographs, thread here:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=452872

This is the most truly ominous photo for me, knowing what happened later when Goebbels got his way.

 

[Kinyou]

also this wiki article is fascinating for those interested in the mg42
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Severloh

Man... on the one side you can understand it, after all is that beach filled with angry Americans who'd probably shoot you on sight and it was his job to defend the beach, but on the other hand... there's something wrong with shooting people that are so hopelessly defenseless.

 

[Jintor]

Now, we are all sons of bitches

 

[stufte]

.

 

[YoungHav]

The first pic: you got me.

Trayvon Martin?

 

[Hootie]

the initial fireball of the Tsar Bomba, aka the largest explosive device ever detonated

"The Tsar Bomb was a three-stage Teller–Ulam design hydrogen bomb with a yield of 50 megatons (Mt). This is equivalent to 1,400 times the combined power of the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 10 times the combined power of all the conventional explosives used in WWII, or one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa."

 

[Jimothy]

Normandy

This photo is of one of the last waves to hit Omaha beach. All those guys would be dead before they got off the boat if they were in the first wave.

 

[Princess Viola]

Those black dots are fucking trees.

 

[Exterminieren]

I guess only ominous if you know already that the red car is filled with 500lbs of explosives, and will detonate moments after this photo was taken, killing 29 people and gravely injuring over 200 more.

Tourist picked a hell of a spot to get his picture taken. This is from the Omagh bombing, in 1998.

Shit.

It's the sheer mundanity of this one that makes it.

 

[DD]

May I post some of my own work?

 

[Xeke]

Joplin funnel clouds forming.

 

[perfectchaos007]

Joplin funnel clouds forming.

I've been watching a lot of sad documentaries on youtube lately, and I don't know which one was more sad. The 2004 thailand tsunami, or the joplin tornado outbreak

 

[Mdeezy]

(yes....I did it)

 

[LQX]

Come on, if it is not clearly obvious please post some background on what is about to happen.

 

[Slayer-33]

All my friends are dead/cupcake dog.gif lol..

 

[Princess Viola]

SOON

 

[GatorBait]

http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/adolf_hitler_in_paris_1940.jpg

 

[envi123]

Politician photographs his assassination.

 

[Avixph]

Fixed.

 

[CHEEZMO™]

I like how you didn't fix the tags even after editing.

 

[Aurongel]

Maybe it's already been posted, but I can't think of anything that even comes close to this^

Apparently she was instructed to hold her child close so that the Nazi would only have to use one bullet. Good lord.

 

[GatorBait]

Fixed.

Thank you! Trying my best to edit it on NeoGAF mobile on my iPad, but it won't seem to work.

 

[Loxley]

Maybe it's already been posted, but I can't think of anything that even comes close to this^

Apparently she was instructed to hold her child close so that the Nazi would only have to use one bullet. Good lord.

This, unfortunately, was a common way the Nazis would carry out executions of large groups of people, in order to conserve ammunition. The definition of fucked up.

 

[Duracelllll]

 

[Ducarmel]

They are all already dead :l


Pro tip? when the water goes out, when it really really goes out. don't hang out on the new beach. GET TO HIGH GROUND MOTHERFUCKER.

Seems like they survived or some of them pictured survived.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4141733.stm

 

[CLEEK]

I've seen this photo dozens of times. And each time, I double take, as I initially think that Thom Yorke has been Photoshopped into it.

 

[FStop7]

Those black dots are fucking trees.

Jesus Christ it all fits together.

*glances nervously toward the bathroom*

 

[demon]

I've seen this photo dozens of times. And each time, I double take, as I initially think that Thom Yorke has been Photoshopped into it.

?

 

[CorruptShadow]

Edit: For context http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balibo_Five

 

[bengraven]

?

Man, Sean Bean always dies...

 

[kai3345]

If you ever search the rabbit hole of /b/, you can see everything from that day. EVERYTHING!

ugh

that video looked so real it looked fake

 

[mariachi507]

I've been watching a lot of sad documentaries on youtube lately, and I don't know which one was more sad. The 2004 thailand tsunami, or the joplin tornado outbreak

Which documentary did you watch on Joplin?

 

[Radec]

Some pretty fucked up things around here.

:O

 

[Avixph]

 

[spindashing]

 

[ScraftyDevil]

 

[KillGore]

(yes....I did it)

What am I looking at here GAF?

EDIT: Oh, are these pictures made by Mdeezy?

 

[perfectchaos007]

Which documentary did you watch on Joplin?

It was called "Witness: Joplin Tornado"
Here's part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI6IoV1ruZA&feature=relmfu

part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKuX4kTCHtg&feature=plcp

part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jy_lZGFZDI&feature=plcp

 

[Az987]

Wouldn't an ominous photo of a tsunami be the tide receding before the wave comes and not the actual wave?

 

[FelixOrion]

Nebraska State Capitol at night. The Statue is called "The Sower"

(From: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digicana/)

 

[demon]

Wouldn't an ominous photo of a tsunami be the tide receding before the wave comes and not the actual wave?

People don't know what ominous means.