Jim Reed, the legendary photographer, has succeeded in documenting dozens of hurricanes and other natural disasters. Most was horrified when she heard a sound like a python during Hurricane Katrina.
End of July 2009, Jim Reed again promoting the first book published in 2007. Namely, Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey. On that occasion, he did not hesitate to call himself aka hunter storm storm chaser.
For about 20 years of challenging death, were close enough to the storm to capture the best picture, Reed refused to be categorized in groups of hunter storm.
Reed is the birth city of Albany, State of Georgia, United States (U.S.) it says that once he avoids excessive connotations that accompany the hunters said the storm. Therefore, for some time, choosing is called extreme weather photographer.
But, lately, he excuse the use of the word became popular as the release of the movie Twister and the series of storms on the Discovery Channel. So be it, he put in a word storm chaser on the title of his best-selling book.
According to Reed is interested in extreme weather since the children were, she refused to be called as a hurricane hunter for not equated with many hunters storm that recently emerged.
Namely, through tours extreme that they follow. "They do it for fun and for the sake of adventure. They take pictures, not create it," said art scholar graduate of the University of Southern California as reported by welovedc.com.
Reed states did not pursue anything. "What I do is the preparation, evaluation, second guesses, and predictions." He tells us, as professionals, he has only been in the danger zone during the warning alarm has not sounded.
But, typically, he put himself on the most dangerous zone by the authorities must be vacated. Thus, he can really deal directly with the anticipated storm.
Reed guts have been delivered at the highest level of respect for photographers. No one else photographers across the United States, even the world, who deserve the status of weather photographers like him.
So far, bespectacled man had been successfully documented the 17 storms. Including, Hurricane Charley which swept Jamaica in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina that destroyed New Orleans in 2005. Also, hundreds of tornadoes, hurricanes, lightning, and unusual natural events other.
Until now, the camera shots Reed about natural phenomena still dominate the U.S. major media. Among them, The New York Times, Time, Reader's Digest, National Geographic, U.S. News and World Report, Discovery Channel, and Nikon. As bad as any natural phenomena that accompany the birth of the storm, Reed could always mengabadikannya nicely. The picture is clear, interesting, and meaningful.
"The most makes me not stand is his voice. You hear people asking for help, screaming animal. One of the most horrible sound you hear when Katrina is a hissing sound like a python snake.
Direct occurred to my mind, Is there really a snake? What's this sound? " Later, we realized that it was a gas pipes are leaking, "he recalls.
