War Stories: Managing a Photo Shoot on Location

“OK, look at this,” said the photographer. I’d remembered him as a more cheerful man.

He pulled his head out from the view camera’s dark cloth and inched slowly down from the top of a ladder poised at the edge of the cliff. An eagle circled curiously a few hundred feet off—150 feet above the valley floor below, but approximately level with the photographer’s damp brow.