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Photographer Scores Bull's-Eye with Shot

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An Irish photographer whose shot of a raging bull bearing down on his camera in Pamplona sparked a flood of concern about his fate said on Wednesday that modern technology had kept him out of harm's way.

Reuters' photographer Desmond Boylan's close-up of an enraged bull -- already bearing a T-shirt trophy on one of its horns -- was carried around the world and prompted numerous inquiries about the fate of the photographer. One German paper ran the photo with a headline asking: "How well is the photographer?" while a Scandinavian picture agency rang Reuters to inquire if Boylan had been killed.

But although thousands regularly join the beasts for the annual running of the bulls during the week long San Fermin Festival, Boylan remained safely behind the barriers set up along the route.

Armed with a remote control, Boylan said he wrapped his camera in wads of bubble wrap leaving just the lens poking out and slid it out under the barrier on to the road.

"It was pandemonium. I saw the bulls coming -- it was the biggest rush of adrenaline," said Boylan, who snapped off two frames just as one beast came crashing toward the barrier.

Each year several people are gored or trampled by the bulls as they run through the streets of the Spanish town. Since record keeping began in 1924, 13 runners have been killed and hundreds more injured by the bulls.

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