This is the famous photograph of the first flight. This photograph was taken by John Daniels, who was a member of the US Life Saving station and knew little about photography. The shutter was triggered by a bulb that pushed air through a tube which pushed the shutter release on the lens. I am very familiar with this type of shutter release system and also used an air bulb to fire the mechanical shutter on cameras I owned. John Daniels didn’t remember squeezing the bulb, but I can imagine that when he saw the plane takeoff he squeezed the bulb instinctively. The Wrights knew that the shutter had been released but didn’t know if they had a photograph until months later when they processed the film in their home darkroom. One reason I used this photograph in combination with the historic photo is the man in the far right of the image. He has the same stance as Orville. I like making visual relationships in my photographs and having the two men with the same pose and posture does that, even though the two photographs were taken 113 years apart from each other. This quote is from Orville’s diary on December 17, 1903. I thought it was rather poetic. “A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.” Orville Wright’s diary entry December 17, 1903
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