Former Mercury News photographer Len Vaughn-Lahman dies...
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"He [Len Vaughn-Lahman] was Indiana Jones with a camera."
But it was in Iraq and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks that the Vaughn-Lahman legend really took off. There were his incredible photos of fierce gunbattles with the Taliban. He was carjacked and robbed in Iraq. Rogers recalls Vaughn-Lahman telling him how he once used a small mirror on a stick to take pictures from around a wall during a shootout.
Upon his return, Vaughn-Lahman wrote: "We feel as if we're trapped in an elaborate video game as we rattle down the rutted ditch that serves as the road to Taloqan. It's the 14th century, but with rocket launchers."
But it was in Iraq and Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 attacks that the Vaughn-Lahman legend really took off. There were his incredible photos of fierce gunbattles with the Taliban. He was carjacked and robbed in Iraq. Rogers recalls Vaughn-Lahman telling him how he once used a small mirror on a stick to take pictures from around a wall during a shootout.
Upon his return, Vaughn-Lahman wrote: "We feel as if we're trapped in an elaborate video game as we rattle down the rutted ditch that serves as the road to Taloqan. It's the 14th century, but with rocket launchers."
