via PetaPixel. Jason Reed, Photographers Blog at Reuters:

What may sur­prise a lot of ama­teur pho­tog­ra­phers is the rapid pace that pic­tures can unfold in front of a news photographer’s lens, even if on the sur­face the images appear to be very staged and there­fore easy to cap­ture. The White House will take us the first 15,000 miles on assign­ment but those last 15 feet are all up to you.

The three quicks: quick think­ing, quick feet, and a quick camera.