Million to one chance?

[Weaver]

Wouldn't like to calculate it, but what do you think the chances were of getting this picture, then?  



That's a JDAM (GPS-guided bomb) about 0.1 seconds before it hit in Tripoli.

Photograph: Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty Images, who can pick my lottery numbers any time he likes.......

[PR19_Kit]

I hope he either had a long lens or could run very fast!

[philp]

Think he may be out of the blast zone on that.

As for the pic, depends on what type of camera.  Mine will take 15 quick pics or even video.  A still from a video would just be neat but even catching a bomb at 15 pics would be pretty lucky (unless you happen to know what may be targeted and you see planes overhead).

[Hobbes]

Video has too long exposure times to catch this, I suspect.

[Weaver]

I suspect what happened is that he was photographing the smoke cloud from bomb A when bomb B fell through the frame.

[JayBee]

He would still have to be using a heck of a fast shutter speed to capture it in that clarity.

[Jschmus]

I saw a couple of different photos in news stories about Libya similar to this one.  In one, the photographer captured a rocket leaving the tube from a launcher mounted on the back of a truck.  In the second, he captured a rebel firing an RPG, and he caught the rocket just out of the launcher.