Forty years after ‘napalm girl’ picture, a photographer reflects on the moment that might have been his

Link: Forty years after ‘napalm girl’ picture, a photographer reflects on the moment that might have been his – The Washington Post

It’s difficult to explain to someone who has grown up in the world of digital photography just what it was like being a photojournalist in the all-too-recently-passed era of film cameras. That there was, necessarily, a moment when your finite roll of film would end at frame 36, and you would have to swap out the shot film for a fresh roll before being able to resume the hunt for a picture.