Moral Dilemma

You are in the Midwest, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been lost, water supplies compromised and infrastructure destroyed. Let's say that you're a photographer out getting pictures for a news agency, travelling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.

You come across George W Bush, who has been swept away by the waters. He is barely hanging on to a tree branch and is about to go under.

You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the branch.

So, here's the question and think carefully before you answer it:

Which lens would you use?

-- Think (One@Second.com), December 17, 2000

Answers

Is it morning or late afternoon? Is the sun behind him or in front of him? I would try for some telephoto shots first...and then a panarama or two. Camcorders are right out, huh?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), December 17, 2000.

Pop on the super-zoom lens, to be sure you capture that pouting expression on his face.

-- Uncle Slob (unclsl0b@aol.com), December 17, 2000.

Think one is a Democrat!

-- ... (...@...com), December 17, 2000.

I'd give him the camera so that he could photograph me as I heroically save him. Don't know nothin bout no lenses.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), December 17, 2000.

I'm with Lars. I think doing it that way, there's at least some talk show appearances I could get out of it, maybe even a book.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 17, 2000.

Notice that the people who slightly lean Bush have smarter answers than those who lean for Gore.

-- Dr. Pibb (dr.pibb@zdnetonebox.com), December 17, 2000.

If you are interested in polictal cartoons and satire, you must save him: he will prove to be a gold mine of material.

-- al from cal (allenrb@ix.netcom.com), February 12, 2001.