AJC Staff Photos of the Year, 2011-- Johnny Crawford
Acworth-- When Marine Cpl. Todd Simpson Love of Acworth, who lost both legs and part of an arm fighting in Afghanistan, began to speak to the crowd at Dallas Landing I positioned myself so that I could get a clean photograph of him raising his arm as the flag began to fly. I was hoping the flag would completely fly horizontal, but it didn't happen, so I went with this photo. Camera D3S, 70mm 200mm lens, ISO 200, f4.5 at 1/200 of a second. Johnny Crawford jcrawford@ajc.com
