Photographers are always attempting to capture the power behind an event. In these 20 photographs the photographers succeeded to capture the emotion, the grandeur, or the power of the moment in amazing ways. The most appalling photograph of the series come from the camera of serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades who snapped the image just moments before slaying Regina Walters. One of the most magnificent photos was snapped by technology, instead of man, as the Hubble looked back billions of years in time to glimpse at 100′s of galaxies. We look in horror as a photographer snaps a picture of his family and his assassin preparing to shoot. An image of a woman crying after the Japanese Tsunami tugs at our heart, but not more than the child trying to awaken his drunk father in the streets.
Photographs show us our world and universe in dramatic ways that words can never match. Photos from science, amateurs, and professionals combine to inform us of the drama of life.
Photo below: World War II veteran from Belarus Konstantin Pronin, 86, sits on a bench as he waits for his comrades at Gorky park during Victory Day in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, May 9, 2011. Konstantin comes to this place every year. This year he was the only person from the unit to show.
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The Photo below are frame from a shocking scene captured by a France 2 cameraman near Gaza Strip. The footage shows Palestinian father Jamal al-Durrah, trying to shield his 12-year-old son, Muhammad al-Durrah, from gunfire while hiding behind a concrete wall, signaling and calling out to Israeli troops to stop firing. Jamal’s son was shot dead and he himself, gravely injured.
Photo below: Sunset on Mars, taken in 2005 by the Spirit rover.
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Photo below: A brave soldier making the long walk to defuse a car bomb in Northern Ireland.
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Photo below: The Kiss of Life.
Taken in 1967 by Rocco Morabito, this is one of the most powerful photographs we’ve seen. Called the Kiss of Life photo, it shows a utility worker named J.D. Thompson giving mouth-to-mouth to co-worker Randall G. Champion after he went unconscious following contact with a high voltage line.
What’s even more incredible is Champion not only survived this thanks to Thompson, but he lived an extra 35 years. He died in 2002. Thompson is still alive today.
Photo below: Homeless man sleeps outside a diner in Milwaukee.
Photo below: Nazi rally at Nuremberg in 1937.
Photo below: This photo was taken by astronaut Michael Collins, when he took this photo he was the only human, alive or dead, that wasn’t in the frame of this picture. He travelled with Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and orbited the moon whilst they were landing to study the surface of the moon from farther out.
Photo below: Lithuanian man in shock after accidentally hitting and killing an eight year old.
Photo below: Turkish official teases starving Armenian children by showing them a piece of bread during the Armenian Genocide in 1915.
Photo below: A Filipino politician took this photo of his family moments before being assassinated. This is terrifying!
Photo below: Selk'nam natives in route to Europe for being exhibited as animals in human zoos.C. 1889.
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Photo below: Two engineers died when the windmill they were working on caught fire. This might be the last picture taken of them alive. Picture was taken on October 29th, 2013 in the Netherlands.
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Photo below: was taken the day the emerging Wall was put up in August 1961 and the boy was found on the opposite side of the wall from his family. Despite given orders by the East German government to let no one pass, the soldier helped the boy through the barbwire. Near the exact time this photo was taken, it was said that the soldier was seen by his superior officer who immediately detached the soldier from his unit.
Concerning the fate of the soldier, most descriptions that come with photograph say that “no one knows what became of him.”
Photo below: A monk prays for a dead man in the station hall of the Shanxi Taiyuan Train Station, China. The man died suddenly of natural causes while waiting for a train.
Photo below: Girl devastated after the tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.
Photo below: The mesmerizing orange Sossusvlei sand dunes in Namibia.
Photo below: Boy tries to wake up his alcoholic father.
Photo below: “The last Jew in Vinnitsa” – Member of Einsatzgruppe D (a Nazi SS death squad) is just about to shoot a Jewish man kneeling before a filled mass grave in Vinnitsa, Ukraine, in 1941. All 28,000 Jews from Vinnitsa and its surrounding areas were massacred.
Photo below: Man uses the suicide hotline on the Golden Gate Bridge.
Photo below: Incredible undulating clouds.
Photo below: Chilling photo of Regina Walters, moments before being murdered – Robert Ben Rhoades was a truck driver/serial killer that liked to pick up hitchhikers and torture them for a while in his truck before killing them. One of his victims was a 14 year old runaway from Texas named Regina Walters. Walters’ remains were found in an abandoned barn in Illinois. However, her disappearance wasn’t connected to Rhoades until after Rhoades was arrested for abducting another woman. When police searched Rhoades’ home they found this photo.
The photo below has been reprinted, posted and passed around for decades to warn about the dangers of pending lightning strikes: Two grinning brothers, hair standing on end, unaware that they were minutes away from being struck by lightning while climbing Moro Rock in California’s Sequoia National Park.
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