Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.

Two-Shot Frony car wreck

Posted Monday, July 2, 2012, at 12:00 AM

G.D. Fronabarger was known as One-Shot with his 4x5 Speed Graphic. Sometimes he shot both sides of a film holder as he did at this automobile accident. It happened on Fountain Street just north of Broadway, one block away from the Southeast Missourian sometime in the 1950s.

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Maybe he thought it might turn into an insurance job.

-- Posted by Ken1 on Mon, Jul 2, 2012, at 2:30 AM

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