Best Boston Globe photos of 2009
By David L. Ryan, Boston, April 20
You could see from the distance when the marathoners came around on Boylston Street. They were so damn close, these two women. They were just neck and neck. You watched, you watched, you watched. All of a sudden you can’t really think too much, you’re just recording it almost like a video and – boom. The woman just collapsed. This was just lucky for me that they appeared at that moment inside my frame. Sometimes I keep both eyes open, and I’m seeing with a second eye that something else is happening; if you’re only looking through a tube of glass it’s hard to actually get to see a whole field.
You could see from the distance when the marathoners came around on Boylston Street. They were so damn close, these two women. They were just neck and neck. You watched, you watched, you watched. All of a sudden you can’t really think too much, you’re just recording it almost like a video and – boom. The woman just collapsed. This was just lucky for me that they appeared at that moment inside my frame. Sometimes I keep both eyes open, and I’m seeing with a second eye that something else is happening; if you’re only looking through a tube of glass it’s hard to actually get to see a whole field.
