A stern test!!

[Jimbuna]

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision.

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yet spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.


THE SITUATION

You are in England, York to be specific.

There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding.

This is a flood of biblical proportions.

You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper, and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.

You're trying to shoot career-making photos.

There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing into the water.

Nature is unleashing all its destructive fury.

THE TEST

Suddenly, you see a man in the water.

He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris.

You move closer... Somehow, the man looks familiar...
You suddenly realise who it is... It's Gordon Brown! You notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options:

You can save the life of Gordon Brown or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one of the country's most powerful men!

THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer...


Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

[August]

I'd save the empire by learning to spell color without the extra vowel.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by August

I'd save the empire by learning to spell color without the extra vowel.

LOL !

Hey uhh they have hurricanes in Great Britan?

[Oberon]

Neither, I'd drop a concrete block on him

[Raptor1]

Well, that depends. Am I in a position to shoot a dramatic enough color picture or do I need the black and white film to add to the effect?

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

LOL !

Hey uhh they have hurricanes in Great Britan?

I hear they can Tan in the Fog too.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

I hear they can Tan in the Fog too.

Confronted by a spell of sizzling weather, we British shift very quickly through four distinct psychological states. I call them suspicion, immersion, irritation and revulsion. Suspicion, the first phase, seems to be hard-wired into us. Our weather is generally so unsettled that we instinctively regard any burst of sunshine as a flash in the pan... When last week’s heatwave started I was amazed by the number of people still perspiring in jackets on the Tube. After the first day or two, however, the truth dawns. It becomes clear that we are in for that rarest of British phenomena: prolonged hot weather. That’s when immersion kicks in. Our famed reserve cracks, to be replaced by sun-frenzy. City parks and squares become seas of roasting flesh... But then comes irritation. How much sleep can you miss anyway? Shouldn’t you be working instead of lying in a park getting burnt? Isn’t the smog suffocating? And if it doesn’t rain soon, what’s going to happen to the garden? So finally there is revulsion. People start to hate the sun.
I refer, of course, to Britain’s scorching s ummer of 1976 — when, from June 23 to August 29, the thermometer hardly fell below 80 and was often in the nineties. The effect was astonishing. It was too hot to sleep at night and too exhausting to walk, talk or (especially) work during the day. Nerves frayed. Tempers snapped like twigs. Railway carriages were like ovens; the Tube a scene out of Dante’s Inferno. Cultural and social life ceased; people just couldn’t summon the energy. And all those national traits that we hold so dear — fair play, humour, tolerance, compromise — evaporated faster than water in the reservoirs. Our mental and spiritual equilibrium depends on our isles being wrapped in the perpetual twilight of a perpetual autumn. A stiff breeze, rain in the air, dark clouds gathering, the delicious forecast of unsettled weather for weeks to come: that is what fuels our sense of irony, moderates our moods and preserves our sanity.
- Richard Morrison, "Global Warming Is Not For Us", "The Times"

[Rhodes]

I had used both, since a good photo-journalist allways carries two bodies cameras! One with a kodachrome and other with ilford pan F!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by August

I'd save the empire by learning to spell color without the extra vowel.

Yeah, you do tend to drop the 'u' vowel regularly over your side of the pond