>>2802667https://weather.com/news/news/2018-05-08-landspout-tornado-photo-jim-reed-tenth-anniversary>"As soon as our doors were closed I reversed and slammed on the gas. To escape the tornado, I had to drive very fast backward, keeping us in the road’s grooves," Reed wrote. "As I steered looking through the rear window, Robin described what she was seeing. 'It’s getting closer and it’s growing—it’s coming towards us.' The tornado was now chasing us down the road."Reed suspected the twister was losing steam and opted to stop the car and hop back out with the storm just 500 feet away. In a daring move, Reed ran toward the storm and captured the images that would go on to be iconic.
"Flying dust stopped me about 150 feet from the landspout. I fired off a few frames, but what I really wanted to do was stand there and take in the extraordinary interaction with nature," he wrote.
"As the landspout dissolved, I slowly walked backwards toward the vehicle. I just didn’t feel it was respectful to turn my back on the vortex," Reed continued. "Seconds later, the vortex collapsed, sending a tidal wave of dust over me. We were covered in it, but both cameras kept working perfectly."
Seems less like photo editing and more like sheer luck and balls.
