Yeah and slightly off topic wasn’t the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?
Such a simple but beautiful act of love to spend your last moments of life doing that knowing that if those photos might help people understand volcanoes and their associated hazards even a tiny better in the future it was worth it.
You could call it tragic, and of course it is, but I prefer to call it badass.
Yeah and slightly off topic wasn’t the pic of Helens blowing its top taken by a man who knew in advance the explosion would kill him and protected his film? Am i thinking of the right story?
Yes. Heroic deed it was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg
Such a simple but beautiful act of love to spend your last moments of life doing that knowing that if those photos might help people understand volcanoes and their associated hazards even a tiny better in the future it was worth it.
You could call it tragic, and of course it is, but I prefer to call it badass.
Thanks for adding the link. He was a real one, deserves to be remembered
I think so
Had to look this up. It was https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Landsburg
RIP
That’s Robert Landsburg although I don’t think his photos are very famous.
The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.