“Oh %$*@!”

This is one of the photographs that randomly appears on my Mac from time to time and many people have commented on it when it shows up as my desktop background. I don’t know if I would go so far as to say that it’s “the most compelling photograph [I've] ever seen”, but it is a pretty amazing shot.

And now we know the story behind it.

(h/t AvWeb)

Update: I had a bit of a scary moment yesterday while practicing crosswind landings. I was flying a Piper Arrow and had just broken ground on my takeoff roll when a large flock of crows, and when I say large I mean like a hundred of them, decided to all take flight at once from the end of the runway. My airplane cleared the top of the flock by about fifty feet, but I definitely had an “Oh %$*@!, this could be bad.” moment there.