Bomb Squad working on a pipe bomb

[MSnowy]

The parachute may be something used to assist in determining wind direction and/or velocity. When an explosive device is located or detonated, wind direction and speed are considered when determining the extent of any evacuation. Just an educated guess, though.

Did you by chance offer these photos to the department involved? I can tell you, they would be INCREDIBLY appreciative to have such great photos of this incident! They may even be helpful in the investigation.

Every time I get a call for a suspicious bag/package/object, it's my worst nightmare to come across something like this. I'm glad nobody was hurt, yourself included! Thanks for sharing these!

Thank you. I'm working on getting these pictures and some others to the State Police. You be safe out there working too.

 

[BillM]

Great job Mike, I'm sure the troopers will love those pictures :thumbup:

From the shots of the actual explosion I am guessing you were using the D3s too ?

 

[MSnowy]

Great job Mike, I'm sure the troopers will love those pictures :thumbup:

From the shots of the actual explosion I am guessing you were using the D3s too ?

Thanks Bill. Yup the d3s. The 500mm got a lot of looks and comments from the crowds

 

[BillM]

I'm sure there was a whole bunch of lens envy going on when you took that bad boy out of it's holster

 

[manaheim]

Wow.

BTW, story on it...

Pipe bomb detonated in Marshfield - News - Scituate Mariner - Scituate, MA

Awesome pics, btw... using those bird lenses I bet??? Crazy. Whodathunk lenses for birding would work out well for shooting bombs.

Did you try selling those images to the news? The ones I found on the news sucked compared to yours.

 

[MSnowy]

Wow.

BTW, story on it...

Pipe bomb detonated in Marshfield - News - Scituate Mariner - Scituate, MA

Awesome pics, btw... using those bird lenses I bet??? Crazy. Whodathunk lenses for birding would work out well for shooting bombs.

Did you try selling those images to the news? The ones I found on the news sucked compared to yours.

Thanks Yup bird lens. I contacted the newspapers but no interest. They all had people working the scene guess they didn't want to hurt their photographers feeling. lol

 

[manaheim]

lol

 

[Derrel]

Great job Mike, I'm sure the troopers will love those pictures :thumbup:

From the shots of the actual explosion I am guessing you were using the D3s too ?

Thanks Bill. Yup the d3s. The 500mm got a lot of looks and comments from the crowds

The Nikkor 500-VR is da' bomb!

 

[vintagesnaps]

I was thinking the same kind of thing as Trever when I first saw this and realized where you're located. You got some nice shots, but probably they would have photographers contracted and on the scene and could have gotten too many inquiries from the general public to consider. Still you got your own photos of it and maybe that will be useful for law enforcement.

 

[nzmacro]

Phew, no wonder we love nature shots Mike. Its a funny world we live in. Timing, how Great shots Mike and I agree with others on that, news worthy for sure.

All the best up there Mike and nicely taken even at 500mm. Spooky.

Danny.