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The Life of a Storm Chaser

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Oct 8th, 2007 • Category: Loose Ends, News for Creatives (archives), Photography

By Tiffany Meyers of PopPhoto.com:

“Crouching under a carport in Port Charlotte, Florida, award-winning photographer Jim Reed records a desperate good-bye-and-I-love-you into a rolling camera for his mother. He hopes it’ll comfort her when he’s gone. Around him, 140 mph winds tear homes apart — uprooting trees and turning cars into toylike projectiles. He’s been caught off-guard: What began as an assignment to document the effects of Category 2 winds on palm trees turns out to put Reed and meteorologist partner Greg Zamarripa in the eye of Hurricane Charley of 2004.”

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