The caption of it having to get there would be more poinient if we could read what’s on the back of the truck. Is it the mail? UPS? Medical supplies? Needs new witty caption
I need the source for that people dying thing. I tried looking up this picture and the facts about it, but I couldn’t find anything. It’s possible that they survived… not likely, but possible…
If I remember, they survived by finding a small mesa and driving onto it. Saw it on a docco, with video footage out the back of the car and all. Can’t remember more details, but they did survive… just.
the back of the van says “Inquirer”, and the copy at the bottom right of the photo says “Philippines most committed newspaper” no one died taking this photo.
This appears to be a photoshopped version of the famous image of a UN truck leaving the eruption zone. Check out the image at Corbis (a photo distribution site who owns the copyright to this image) seems to be down until July 18th 2009 or at this site: https://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/eyewitness/eyewitness_2.asp
For the record, the photographer and everyone in the jeep behind them survived….
This is from the 1991 Mt. Pinatubo eruption.
You know the people that took this picture were killed in this erruption…
@Monomorphic: But the camera miraculously survived?
You know if they were the film would have been destroyed as well right? Dumbass.
The caption of it having to get there would be more poinient if we could read what’s on the back of the truck. Is it the mail? UPS? Medical supplies? Needs new witty caption
I need the source for that people dying thing. I tried looking up this picture and the facts about it, but I couldn’t find anything. It’s possible that they survived… not likely, but possible…
Sources please.
Ahh, film/memory cards/cameras doesn’t need oxygen to survive.
If I remember, they survived by finding a small mesa and driving onto it. Saw it on a docco, with video footage out the back of the car and all. Can’t remember more details, but they did survive… just.
@nugget Look in the bottom-right corner, this is an ad for a newspaper in the Philippines, and most definitely ’shopped.
google: alberto garcia volcano
goto http://www.albertogarcia.ph/
The van heading the other way:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_asCRtCVMdL8/SabCbEy7erI/AAAAAAAADUY/pBH5nRZjtak/s400/Pinatubo-eruption.jpg
One of these images is shopped. Compare smoke patterns with respect to palm trees.
the back of the van says “Inquirer”, and the copy at the bottom right of the photo says “Philippines most committed newspaper” no one died taking this photo.
This appears to be a photoshopped version of the famous image of a UN truck leaving the eruption zone. Check out the image at Corbis (a photo distribution site who owns the copyright to this image) seems to be down until July 18th 2009 or at this site: https://www.weeklyreader.com/featurezone/eyewitness/eyewitness_2.asp
For the record, the photographer and everyone in the jeep behind them survived….
@nugget: look carefully: the picture does have a witty caption, embedded within.