Ignoring my icon

[blythechild]

So. I was image searching for a new piece of fan art I'm trying to make. The piece involves people falling from the sky. Anyway, I found a lot of great and helpful stuff and then I found THIS, which I thought was truly extraordinary/horrible/beautiful:

Comments

[amberdreams]

Ah it's funny what we find researching for fan fic and fan art isn't it? I did a similar image search a while back and came across this photo and story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Man

[vegawriters]

both of these are amazing. wow.

street photography is so much a part of how we understand history. these are no different. wow.

[draycevixen]

I don't find it weird but then I'm fascinated by those moments in time that change everything.

[chamekke]

I remember the first photograph from a book I had, years ago, of Pulitzer prize-winning photographs. It's amazing, shocking and heartbreaking.

Photographs of people in free-fall have a horrible fascination. The modern equivalent is probably the "falling man" of 9/11. It's the terrible realization that, in that moment, they're alive and vital, but as soon as they hit the ground... :-(