A couple of days ago I had the chance to take a few unusual pics. As it happened I contacted a few peeps and the phones suddenly went ballistic. The pic itself is backlit, taken at night, wrong ISO, no tripod, etc, etc. I could have taken a better pic but it was the one the media wanted - right place, right time.
The story was a Tornado jet had ran off the runway and both crew ejected. I got to the airfield and just caught the helicopter departing to hospital with the crew (both safe and apart from the normal ejection injuries, relatively unscathed) but no pics of that. So I photographed the scene, posted my shots on an aviation forum and was advised to call the press. The pic was used here and on the news bulletins, STV used it and I've had requests from a few newspapers. Here's a crop of the actual pic:
And one of the general scene the next day:
The daylight pics have been requested by the press so I'm letting the PR officer at work negotiate on my behalf. It's my first foray into selling to the media and although I've made some cash out of it, I could have made much more (apparently).
Al
and before anyone asks, I had nothing to do with this, despite living half a mile from said crash 
