“Where I shy away from shooting the victim is in the everyday accident situation because there is no compelling reason to shoot the victim. It would just look like exploitation.”

I’ve never quite figured out a way to put that into words as simply and effectively as Gary did. My feeling is that ‘everyday’ accidents should basically be avoided unless there is some compelling news angle, or some wacky feature angle to them. For example: A motorist is not hurt, but runs their vehicle up a telephone pole, leaving it standing in the vertical position. It’s great the driver wasn’t hurt and the vehicle makes for sort of a oddity picture.

Bent metal is bent metal. If it’s newsworthy…cover it…if it’s not…don’t.

Nice emotion on Corey’s photo of the injured woman. Not always an easy shot to get, access-wise.