This week’s best photo comes from visual journalist Anthony Vazquez. Follow him on Instagram.
What makes this photo great?
The death of a first responder is an in -depth loss – they risk their lives daily and never know if they return home.
This image imposes a moment of collective mourning: fellow first responds and volunteers from the Red Cross are in solemn greetings, along both sides of the road when the ambulance passes by. The flashy lights, filled in in tribute, guide the last trip of Chicago Fire Department Capt. David Meyer.
Above them, the red and white stripes of the American flag golf, symbolize the service and sacrifice they have made for their community. This is a last, powerful act of respect.
How did you get the shot?
During the procession, the ambulance that carries the cases quickly- you only get one moment to record it. Planning the corner is crucial.
Before the ambulance arrived, I tested various positions to visualize potential recordings. My goal was to frame three elements: the greeting of fellow first responds, the ambulance that transported their fallen colleague and the American flag over the head. I noticed space behind the flag carriers and squatted low to position the flag as a background.
Through this angle I was able to all three components – salitating hands, the passing ambulance and the flag – a single, coherent tribute to Meyer’s service in layers.
Technical details:
- Equipment: Canon EOS R5 with an RF35mm F1.8 MacroLens
- Focal length: 35 mm
- Aperture: f/1.8
- Exposure: 1/200
- ISO: 1250
20 great photos of the Sun-Times Photo Staff
Ryan Trent Oldham, 37, has a cat skull found in his Albany Park -house on the north -west side, Wednesday 9 April 2025. Oldham and his partner, Jeffrey Martini, bought their first house in 2023 and learned after they were closed on the house that the Zolder and Urine was filled with a battent, as a battent, as a battent, as a batolai, as a battent, a battent vest, as a battles, as a centimeter vest, as a centimeter vest, as a centimeter vest, as a centimeter vest, as a centimeter vest, as a battent vest, as a battent vest, which was a battent in centimeter, as a centimeter. Cats had closed.
Vincent Alban/for the Sun-Times
A portrait of late Pope Francis is shown as Archdiocese of Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich prepares the Eucharist during a memorial mass for the peace of the soul of Pope Franciscus in the holy name Cathedral, Wednesday, April 23, 2025.
Ashbey Beasley, Who Survived the Mass Shooting During the Highland Park Fourth of July Parade, Walks Outside The Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan After the Second Day of Robert Crimo III’s sentencing, Thursing Turnay, 2025 or Crimo in April 2425. Prison Without the Possibility of Parole for Murbing Seven People Turning the Highland Park Parade on the Fourth of July in 2022.
Firefighters hang a flag hanging prior to a procession for fallen firefighters CAPPT. David Meyer outside the medical examination office on 2121 West Harrison in Little Italy, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. Capt. David Meyer was injured when the roof of a garage he responded collapsed.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
Demonstrants stop a variety of signs during a protest outside the Ralph H. Metcalfe Federal Building on 77 W Jackson Blvd in the Loop, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Members of the US Environmental Protection Agency Union and Environmental lawyers to make a fake of a Nep Begriediging kept the Nep Begrangigings to be a grazing rods and the Nep Female Up Deputy and the Nep Begriedings and the Nep Female Female to enlarge.
Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times
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