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This is an imaginary situation, but I think
you will find it beneficial to think through this exercise.
The situation:
You are in the Middle East, and there is a huge flood in progress. Many homes have been
lost, water supplies compromised and structures destroyed.
You're a freelance photographer for a news service, you're traveling alone, looking for
particularly poignant scenes that you can shoot.
You come across Osama Bin Laden who has been swept away by the floodwaters. He is barely
hanging on to a tree limb and is about to go under.
You have to make a choice: You can either put down your camera and save him, or take a
Pulitzer Prize winning photograph of him as he loses his grip on the limb.
So, here's the question . . . and think carefully before you answer it:
