Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

James Norwood childishly complains that I didn't have the Martin proxy moving when we took the pictures.

It's a highly leveraged thing. We were trying to capture that first emergence of the bike and rider into the camera field. How could we do it if he was moving? It was a matter of having one person behind the camera and the other person inching forward. There was a lot of leverage involved. 

"OK, come forward a little. No, too far. Back up. OK. Hold it."

That's what we were doing, while all the while knowing that the light could change at the top of the hill any second bringing on traffic. 

I am extremely pleased with the results we obtained, and it doesn't matter a bit that the bike wasn't moving. We weren't testing for blur. We were testing for what part of the bike/rider would emerge first in the picture- at any speed. The speed was irrelevant. 

You're a professor of humanities, James, not physics, and it shows. In physics, you're not only not a professor of it- you're not even at the 8th grade level.