Who is the luckiest photographer in the world?
Michele Witting
2025-10-15 06:45:40
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The Luckiest Photographer on Earth.
Walter Iooss Jr. is an American photographer noted for his images of athletes, including Michael Jordan, Kelly Slater, Tiger Woods, Scottie Pippen, and Muhammad Ali.
He has been called "the poet laureate of sports."
Iooss began his career shooting for Sports Illustrated and contributed to the magazine for more than 50 years.
Iooss is married to Eva Iooss, with whom he has two sons, Christian and Bjorn.
In 2004 he was awarded with the LUCIE Lifetime Achievement Award for Sports Photography.
According to Iooss, "The real joy of photography is these moments.
I'm always looking for freedom, the search for the one-on-one.
That's when your instincts come out."
Sedrick Klein
2025-10-15 05:35:07
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Victor Buso took his camera outside, mounted it on a 16-inch telescope and trained it on a spiral galaxy some 80 million light-years from Earth.
Buso was just trying to test out his new camera.
He didn't expect to win the cosmic lottery — or to prove scientists right about a long-held theory about how supernovas occur.
While photographing the NGC 613 galaxy over the course of about an hour, Buso inadvertently captured several images of a star moving through the first visible stages of a supernova — the explosive death of a supermassive star.
Such photos of emerging supernovas have never been captured before, and with good reason; according to astronomers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata in Argentina, the chances of randomly catching a star going supernova are about 1 in 10 million at best.
Buso quickly shared his photographic findings with astronomers, and, by the next morning, telescopes around the world took aim at the dying star.
Professional astronomers have long been searching for such an event, Alex Filippenko, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement.
Observations of stars in the first moments they begin exploding provide information that cannot be directly obtained in any other way.
Filippenko worked on a follow-up study of the star published Wednesday in the journal Nature.