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using google translate on the main text:

It started as an ordinary election rally, just like the many rallies photographer Evan Bucci has photographed for The Associated Press.

Photo Feature: Former President Trump wounded in gunfire during speech

Former President Trump stepped onto the podium in Butler, Pennsylvania, to greet his supporters and begin his speech.

The next moment, chaos ensued.

Bucci recalled the assassination attempt on the 13th, saying, "I heard a few pops over my left shoulder. I knew right away they were gunshots." "I was pointing my lens at the podium at the time. I saw the Secret Service rush in and cover him. I got into work mode and got to work."

As many of the rally attendees evacuated, Bucci and other photojourn*lists sprang into action.

Bucci is the chief photographer for The Associated Press' Washington bureau. "It was instinct at that time," he said. "All I could think was, 'I have to get this photo.' It's a photographer's occupational hazard. I couldn't go back and recreate it, so I had to get it right then and there."

Evan Vucci

Photography is a much more widely respected art in Japan.

When the shots rang out, Butch was in the buffer zone in front of the podium. His first thought was not his own safety, but recording the events in front of him. There would never be another chance to capture a historic moment through the lens of his camera.

"I was looking for the best angle to capture Trump," Butch recalled. "Then I started thinking in my mind, 'OK, how is Trump going to get out of here? Where are the security going to take him? What are they going to do?' Finally, I saw that Trump stood up and was being taken by the security to the back of the podium, so I hurried to the back."

Butch took a photo of Secret Service agents supporting Trump and taking him to a safe place.

"He stood up, looked at the crowd, and started pumping his fist," Bucci said. "I could see blood on his face through the viewfinder. I think that's the moment that a lot of people are sharing."

Doug Mills has been covering presidents for over 40 years. But even Mills, a photographer for The New York Times, had never experienced anything like what happened on the 13th.

"It happened so fast, it was chaotic, it was so scary," Mills said.

Before taking the photo, Mills walked around the podium to check out Trump from various angles. He then took a position just below the podium and looked up. That's when he heard the gunshots.

From this spot, Mills took one of the most famous photos of the shooting.

It took him a while to realize that he had captured a decisive moment.

Sometime after Trump was taken to a safe location, Mills looked through his photos and sent them back to his editor at The New York Times.

They knew they had captured the moment the bullet hit Trump. In the series of photos, it's easy to see that Trump is distorting his face and holding his hand to his right ear.

But then their editor, Jennifer Mosbrucker, told them there was something else in the photo.

"Jennifer called me five minutes later and said, 'You're not going to believe this,'" Mills recalled. "I thought we screwed up. That was the first thing I thought of. Then she said, 'I've got a shot in the back of your head.' I said, 'What?' She said, 'The shutter was so fast that there's a bullet in it.'"

Jennifer said that an FBI ballistics expert looked at the photo and described it as a "one in a million" shot.

Getty Images photographer Anna Moneymaker, who was with Butch and Mills, initially thought the gunshots were fireworks.

Thought it was a google translate hiccup but that's the actual name, or at least a psuedonym

https://www.annamoneymaker.com/

"But then the crowd started screaming and some of the revelers asked me to get down with looks of shock and confusion on their faces. It didn't seem real."

Moneymaker's breathing became heavy and his mind was starting to wander, but he kept pressing the shutter and took the memorable photo of the day.

"I moved to the right side of the podium and saw all the guards hovering over him. I could see his face through the guards' legs," said Moneymaker. "I didn't know how badly he'd been hit, so I took a photo to see how he was. I could see the blood running down his face."

Mills, Moneymaker and Butch all mentioned how important it was to stay focused on their work amid the chaos.

Butch had experience covering Iraq and Afghanistan in his early days and had been in combat situations. He said that experience helped him stay calm amid the chaos. Butch, like his colleagues, focused on the basics.

"I was looking through the viewfinder and thinking, 'OK, where's the light source? What's the composition?' I told myself, 'Slow, slow. Framing and composition.' All of those are things you tell yourself as a photographer," said Butch.

When Trump was shot, Moneymaker gasped and repeatedly said, "Oh my God." But he didn't stop moving.

"I just wanted to document history and take pictures," he said. "I was a little nervous. What was I going to achieve? So I just kept pressing the shutter. I was yelling curse words and muttering, 'Just keep taking pictures.'" (Moneymaker)

Mills was trying to remember what he'd learned from his former colleague at the Associated Press, Ron Edmonds, who photographed the 1981 assassination attempt on President Reagan.

"I always asked him about the situation when he took the photo of Reagan getting shot. He always said, don't flinch, don't look away, just focus on what's in front of you," Mills said.

The next day, Mills was working on just a few hours of sleep, and he took a moment to reflect on his experience at Butler.

"It was scary. Looking back, it's scary. It probably wasn't the wisest choice for my safety. But I did my job."

His fellow photographers shared the same sentiment.

"I'm just happy that everything was in focus and that I did my job," Bucci said.

yahoo.jp has a comment section!

if you route the whole page through google translate, it just redirects you to the main yahoo.jp page

I'm using deepl instead of google translate for this. (deepl is better, but will limit you on large texts)

I wonder what the 495 (and counting...) comments are about

Rei Shiba

28 minutes ago

Freelance journ*list (environment, human rights, war and peace)

As a member of the journ*lism community, I would like to express my discomfort with this photo. To put it simply, it is "the best and the worst picture". I take my hat off to Evan Bucci's ability and boldness as a photographer to be able to take such perfect photos under extremely shocking and dangerous circumstances. On the other hand, however, news photography is not just a question of how good or bad one is, but also of what one conveys and, more importantly, what kind of impact one can have on society. In this respect, I wonder if it is ethical for a news photographer to photograph extremely problematic people as if they were heroes. At the risk of sounding a bit harsh, I feel that Mr. Bucci's photographs are similar to those of Leni Riefenstahl, who was criticized for being complicit in Nazi Germany's propaganda while being highly praised for her artistry.

well that's quite the strong opinion as the top comment!

despite being displayed as the top comment, there are no replies

In fact, it looks more liked a pinned comment than a top comment

The normal comments:

While looking through the viewfinder, ask yourself, "What is the light source? What is the composition? I thought, "Slowly, slowly. Slowly, slowly. It's all about framing and composition.

I thought it was a "miracle shot" that I happened to be in the right place at the right time and succeeded in capturing it, but in that moment of upheaval and confusion, he calculated the composition and focus of the shot while swinging the camera and releasing the shutter.

It was a shot that made me think, "Professionals are different after all."

It will be one of the most representative photos of the 21st century!

The photographers must have been desperate not to miss this historic moment.

It's not every day that you get to be a witness to history, even if you were there by chance.

Unlike video, where you can see the whole story, a photograph captures the moment. A single photograph tells the whole story. In order to take such a picture, you are a veteran photographer who, without regard for your own >> safety, calmly predicted Mr. Trump's actions and searched for the best position to take the best shot!

You did a great job of capturing the best moments.

I know it's inappropriate, but I thought America likes scenes like Hail America.

Even in movies. Movies are fiction, but this is a miraculous piece of non-fiction that really happened.

It looks really really inappropriate but very cool. I think it's a wonderful piece of work.

This photo may be used in future elections.

I also believe that this photo will stay with us forever when discussing the American case.

It is a paternalistic, realistic picture that symbolizes a strong leader.

I feel that many Americans are inspired by this picture.

It is reassuring to see the courageous figure of the leader of one's own country.

Although the presidential election is still some way off, I think many people would like to have the person in this picture as their leader, to have this picture engraved in history, and to have him as their president.

He is also a dependable person in that he turned a pinch into an opportunity.

I am a photographer with a little name.

Photographer.

This photo will probably be a historic photo that will last for the next 1500 years.

That's how close to perfect the composition, Trump's spirit, the weather, the flag, the secret, everything.

It is a shame that there are quite a few Japanese who were hoping that Trump would fall to a bullet and not return.

Fortunately, there aren't any in this thread, but it really is a problem when self-proclaimed pacifists and liberalists unexpectedly resort to violence and advocate and support such violence.

I read something once that America wants to create a hero because it has no history. This time, a hero was created. The hero was born thanks to the seriousness of Mr. Trump and the professionalism of the cameraman, and the place was transformed from a place of fear into one with the call of "USA. This is the wonderful thing about America.

I think it's definitely dark to be in your 80s and 70s to come out as the top candidate in a country that size in the first place.

Trump has it for sure and I think it's almost a done deal this time, but there are a lot of hard things to be decided.

Americans are hysterical.

At a time like this, Biden is talking about Putin, the president of Ukraine...

Do the Democrats want to win?

Or let Biden lose,

"It's his fault" and call it quits.

and end the whole thing.

They're hysterical, or should I say stupid, for better or worse. Otherwise they wouldn't think about crossing the Atlantic and starting a new country in the New World. Japanese people often overthink things and don't move forward, so in that sense, being a little stupid helps things go well.

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2 hours ago

It was so well composed that some had a fake theory using AI, etc., but I saw that The Washington Post posted a video of this event yesterday.

After watching the video, there was no doubt that Trump was posing with his guts as shown in this photo with the Stars and Stripes in the background.

Some professional cameras can take 120 shots/second, so I think the combination of the photographer's experience and professional equipment produced this miraculous shot.

if this user's name is really "tomato", why is their pfp a strawberry?

These seem to be genuine and definite, but in this day and age, even videos can be easily faked.

From now on, there will be a mountain of untruthful information flying around. Japanese people should be careful anyway.

The icon looks like a strawberry...

ok it's not just me

I hate name ornaments.

Well, it shows what kind of personality you have.

When I saw this photo, I thought "this is Pulitzer Prize stuff" and was surprised to learn that the photographer, Evan Bucci, is already a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer.

Revisiting online accounts of the situation and videos from the time, he said that he had moved around the scene to film Trump immediately after the shooting had taken place against him, without regard for the danger of the shooting continuing.

If the shooting at Trump had not been an isolated incident, a second or third shooting could have taken place. I admire Evan Bucci's courage and energy to take action in such a dangerous situation to capture what was happening.

Evan Bucci is already a Pulitzer Prize winner, and I was impressed by the talent and courage of such a distinguished award-winning photographer, who is able to take the best possible photographs under any circumstances.

Evan from AP and Doug from NYtimes were SONY.

Manny Maker of Getty was Canon.

They were all mirrorless cameras.

I'm wondering if it's Canon or Nikon.

Japanese cameras are great!

No way, SONY camera.

The 1mm at Mitoma was also SONY, wasn't it?

I have to admit, I am one of those people who do not want Trump to be president. Again, I thought he was just a lucky man, but I think this picture made me feel that no matter who Trump is, his enthusiasm for the presidency is solid. And one more thing, if he ever becomes the president of the United States, I hope that the weight of leading the country of the United States, the greatest country in the world, his own life, which was once dead, and the world he sees after being reborn will change after seeing this picture.

I'm also anti-Trump.

Still, when I saw this scene, I had to admit that he has the strength and leadership to lead a great nation.

Photojourn*lists are amazing.

They can move people's emotions to this extent with just one photograph.

Even though Trump hates war, even though his motive is for business.

For some reason, pacifists like idealistic, idealistic belligerents.

On the surface, he seems like a rough guy, but in the underworld, it's like Trump is good and Biden is evil.

The powers behind the scenes apparently don't want Trump to be president. Biden is basically a puppet. He works for the backroom interests. Trump seems to overlap with the assassinated Kennedy. Kennedy was also trying >> to move the US in the right direction without listening to those behind the scenes. That is why Kennedy was assassinated. I think Trump's current situation is the same as Kennedy's.

This is truly a miraculous picture. The fact that such a photo was taken is so symbolic of the incident and the United States that it seems as if it might have been made. I wonder how many people saw this photo that traveled around the world immediately after the incident. This is a picture that will be introduced with the record of the incident for decades to come.

The attempted assassination of Mr. Trump had quite a significant impact on the course of the presidential election, and this photo of Mr. Trump with his right fist raised in the air makes a vivid impression of his extraordinary mental strength and boldness. It seems to me that he is already a legend and will surely be etched forever in the history of the United States.

Kim Jong-un has fallen in love with this boldness, so that even his sworn enemy, U.S.

He met with Mr. Trump (when he was president) in person.

This old man is not just an ordinary man.

You look like Raoh.

I'm sure I'll get a collage of "I have no regrets in my life" as it is.

Now we have gone from a tiger to a confirmed tiger.

"We are reporting with safety in mind."

This is a common phrase used in disaster reporting in Japan, and it is a typical Japanese expression of the excessive pursuit of safety.

This excessive pursuit of safety and risk aversion may ultimately lead to the atrophy of society and a decline in competitiveness.

Only by taking on challenges, even at the cost of a few, can the welfare and gain of society as a whole be improved.

I commend the spirit of this photographer and the challenging country of the United States.

If we enter a disaster site without ensuring safety, we would be slowing down rescue efforts, so we say, "We are reporting with safety in mind. What is excessive safety in that?　It's not excessive safety, it's just that your understanding of the situation is not excessive.

When things go wrong, they cry to the powers that be.

I've never seen such a slob in the American press, at least not in the award-winning class.

I've never seen such a slacker in the American press corps, at least not in the award-winning class.

They are willing to be martyrs for their jobs,

It's as if they are saying that since they enjoy the freedom (of the press), they are responsible for their own actions.

Is he complaining japanese journ*lists don't have balls?

You seem to be writing a lot of things, Mr. Bloodthirsty commenter, but are you ready to go to the front lines with weapons? Have you joined the Self-Defense Forces and are you trained to survive on the front lines? Are the various things you write just thoughts? Are you still eating a hot meal in a safe place? Are you just poking around on the internet?

I don't remember if I read something or someone told me, but this is the critical difference between amateurs and professionals. Normally, when something happens, people feel the urge to confirm it with the naked eye. Therefore, the images tend to be out of focus at the crucial moment and afterwards, even though they were taken right up to the moment the event was about to happen. However, professionals are able to continue to follow the event, and I guess this is the "instinct" of a photographer as he calls it.

In the old days, there was certainly a word "shutter chance" and there were pictures that captured a miraculous moment.

However, nowadays, we can capture a movie, select the best scene, cut it out, and finish it as a single photo (in fact, I suspected that this photo might be one of them).

I expect that the number of photos that capture the "shutter chance" in the true sense of the word will decrease, and the word itself will disappear.

camera speeds are too fast, those mirrorless cameras are degrading the art and culture of photography

With a mirrorless SLR, what you're doing isn't much different than video. I think the pros are SLRs.

>I see a few things that are a bit unnatural. First of all, the photographers are reacting super fast to the gunfire, which is suspicious. The photo of Mr. Mills "with a bullet in the back of his head" is also too well-timed. The Secret Service response is also very fast, and it's weird to see Trump pumping his fist in the air after he was shot. Furthermore, it's also unnatural that Mr. Mannymaker initially mistook the gunfire for fireworks. All of this together makes it seem like something was planned in advance.

I was a news photographer for a while, and I went to many crime scenes carrying a camera. I even went to the scene of a fire and took pictures of people at home, but I didn't feel good about it at all. But my body naturally moved. I wonder if it was the same for the cameraman at this scene. It's a natural movement.

I'm there to work, and if my body doesn't work, I'm simply incompetent.

I also saw the video of the moment of the shooting, but this photo left a more vivid and dramatic impression on me.

Even I, a Japanese, thought, "Is this the strong America?

I realized that a photograph that captures only that moment has a great impact, both good and bad.

I have been thinking about this assassination attempt on Mr. Trump. In the U.S., it seems that the attempt ended with the shooting of the suspect. In Japan, the suspect in the Abe assassination was captured, and later it came to light that the Unification Church was the reason for the Yamagami attempt, which is still a problem today. Will the suspect who tried to assassinate Trump become a lost cause without knowing why?

This seems to be the Japanese and American way of thinking.

Well, it is true that if Yamagami had been shot dead on the spot, the LDP would have gained nothing but benefits. There are a lot of yahoos who say assassins don't need trials, but that's not good enough as far as I'm concerned. I have no idea, but he might have had a serious grudge against Trump.

It's not the right way to go about it, but if there are compelling (in the perpetrator's own way) circumstances that led to it, it's better to make them clear.

There are cases where it's unavoidable, though, right?

It is amazing that he could raise his fist in that situation.

I wonder if Biden would have been able to do it.

He embodies the indomitable spirit of America.

I think it's obvious to any American which of the two would be the best person to be president.

Mr. Biden would give a normal speech even if it went through his eyebrows.

It sounds like it was after they heard that the perpetrators had been subdued.

I started going to later pages, like page 9 and beyond, where the more controversial comments seem to be. I'm not sure exactly how yahoo.jp sorts the comments

It's too well done, could it not have been a set up?

As for the ear wound, is it really a bullet wound?

I saw a picture of his ear right after he was shot.

It's completely intact, just red with blood.

If hypothetically a rifle bullet had hit his ear,

the ear would be blown off, not pierced.

If the bullet had missed in the first place, the case would not have been so serious.

On the other hand, if the bullet had hit him, he would have lost his life.

The very fact that the bullet grazed such a small target, the ear, drew the public's attention to it.

This scenario is too good to be true.

It is understandable to think so, but since several people were killed or wounded, it must be true that the shooter or someone fired a shot.

If a shot was fired in real life, it would have been a Golgo 13 move to graze the ear, and such an order would have been too unrealistic.

The idea that he killed the crowd by firing from other locations to make them think that he did so would be too large a crowd to do so secretly, and shooting two or three people with it would be overkill.

Someone noticed the suspect going up on the roof and told the police.

They didn't do anything about it.

In the first place, the Secret Service shooter

The Secret Service shooter had already caught the suspect on the roof before he shot him, but he didn't shoot him.

before the shooter did, but didn't shoot him.

In other words, he obviously knew about the suspicious suspect before he shot him, but didn't shoot him.

He shot and killed the shooter after the shooter took the shot.

In addition, I heard that all of the shooter's social networking relationships were completely erased.

I think they reported that the bullet didn't hit him directly in the ear, but that it hit him somewhere else and the shrapnel hit him in the ear.

Hmmm...

I highly doubt that such a top secret would be easily available on the internet, no matter how many times it is posted on the internet, by any chance ^^. It's like Dr. Suidobashi or Mr. Komiya, the red light, with a preconceived, >> >> hardened head and a translator's face.

I'm sorry.

A civilian is dead... that's inappropriate.

Why does the story seem too good to be true from an objective point of view?

To drop Biden even further in his fall from grace.

The performance is the best I've ever seen.

Just as the actions and backgrounds of the suspects are unclear at this point, Trump has a history of many questionable crimes.

Trump has been involved in many questionable crimes in the past, and it is quite possible that he is using this opportunity to dramatically set up a performance that will give him the upper hand.

He is a person who could have been preparing for a dramatic performance to take advantage of this opportunity.

It's a fishy, scandalous story.

My first impression is that it is hard to believe.

He has been bluffing and covering it up.

He is a person with low credibility.

Trump's blood had already stopped for some reason, lol.

If his balls had been hit, that much blood wouldn't have been enough.

It was unfortunate that he died in the travesty, but I boo Trump a lot if he goes to such lengths.

I don't think the comments are nested and I don't know what's going on

It was reported that it went through, right?

I knew the photographer was making a living off of other people's misery. A presidential candidate was shot, this picture is worth money. That's what you thought. That's because if you control guns, you'll have less material, so you're against it.

journ*lists are against gun control so they get more work

There are SO MANY comments like this one, just so many:

Photographers are like that on the battlefield.

It is said that even if the surroundings are dangerous, they become less scary when they look through the viewfinder.

I've translated dozens of comments just for them to be a short variation on the virtues of photographers

I don't think you need anymore to get the idea

(the last 10 comments I translated at this point where about photographers being built different...)

This is going to be a historic photo. And if you look at the close-up photo of Trump's ear when he was shot, there really was a hole in it. I'm amazed that there are idiots who would call this a staged event. They're crazy.

I hope that Trump, who himself was targeted with a gun, will take this opportunity to work for gun abolition.

This picture is great.

I think it is definitely up for one of the best pictures of the year.

Trump holding up his fist powerfully despite being shot and bleeding, and the big stars and stripes in the background.

I don't think even a movie director could draw a composition conte like this.

The further down you go, the more controversial it gets

Now that's a Trump fix.

Japan needs to get a hostile strike capability as soon as possible so we don't have to pay the US any more money.

NUKE THEM BACK

Mr. Trump shouted "USA" forcefully even after being shot at.

In comparison, Mr. Biden misspoke and gave a tasteless answer.

Trump is the only one who can entrust the U.S. now.

Trump, the hero who has defeated despicable terrorism!

Mr. Trump is the one who will save America and the world.

I'm sure a documentary will be made soon that focuses on this cameraman, not Trump or his camp.

Almost 100% of the equipment used by professional photographers is made by Japanese optical equipment manufacturers.

What camera equipment did you use?

Nikon, Canon or Sony?

Did a Japanese camera record a scene from history?

At this point most of the last comments I translated were focused on the virtues of photographers

I think Rei Shiba's comment is what is "extremely problematic".

This comment refers to the special comment on the top of page 1, that has no replies and some kind of special badge.

This has 10 happy faces. Does it also refer to the special comment?

What? This author comment

Rei Sheba's comment appears on the left of the article, so it's pretty likely she wrote the article.

I've sifted through countless pages of comments, and there's still many more. I've tried to source dramatic comments from yahoo.jp before, and failed. They have a tendency to make the same opinion comment 40 times which really sucks to sort through when you have to copy paste every comment. This post is so long that I have to use ctrl+F to look at the preview

...and there are now over 500 comments!