Sunday, March 29, 2009

How I Spent My Day

Fireball V

I stood on Potrero Hill for nearly six hours today, waiting for this shot. A film crew was in town, shooting a TV pilot for a potential series called Trauma, and word was out that there would be a big explosion on Hwy. 280 sometime this afternoon. The window was supposed to be between 1:00 and 4:00, but it actually happened at just a few minutes before 6:00. Along with another dozen other photographers and videographers or so, I was able to capture this shot after hours of waiting.

Then I was featured on one of the local TV news shows (KRON 4), and misquoted by the local paper. Sheesh.

6 comments:

Kym said...

That's a cool photo. Looks like the Devil himself came to SF.

ahab said...

Pretty dramatic!

Tom Hilton said...

Awesome! Did you plug PaaL on TV?
;-)

Shiltone said...

It blowed up real good!

aimai said...

Wow, I know that view. My great aunt lives on Potrero Hill. Incredible work getting that shot!

aimai

Generik said...

Thank you all, I think it was worth the standing arund waiting all day for the shots I was able to get.

Tom, no, sorry, I didn't have the presence of mind to mention Pixels to any of the reporters (also, I'm kind of modest, shy and retiring, as I'm sure you've noticed).

aimai, I wonder if your great aunt was able to see that from her house? I was standing on Texas Street just below 19th when I took it.