Word: snapshotted
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...yanks on it hard, loses the fish, staggers backward, tangles poles with another angler, staggers backward knocking over anglers, poles, bait buckets, lunch baskets and trash cans, till at last he winds up splat in the middle of the first this-is-me-and-the-big-fish-I-caught snapshot ever taken with the subject's head in the fish's mouth...
...TINY TV. The most hypnotically popular item to be introduced in many months is a tiny TV set with a screen smaller than a postcard (4½ in. by 3½ in.). Made by Japan's Sony, Micro-TV produces a snapshot-clear picture, weighs only 8 Ibs., and can operate on house current, a rechargeable battery pack, or-in states where the law allows it-on the juice from an auto cigarette lighter socket. One of Micro-TV's neatest features is its view-ability at less than arm's length on office desk or bedside...
...marines planting the Stars and Stripes on the summit of Mount Suribachi, the highest point on Iwo Jima. Three of the marines were later killed on Iwo; the three who survived became national heroes. But one of the survivors, a Pima Indian named Ira Hayes, was killed by that snapshot as surely, if not as swiftly, as by a bullet...
...them were embarrassingly bad. E. M. Forster predicted his decline as early as Dodsworth; in an essay on Lewis called "A Camera Man," he wrote: "Photography is a pursuit for the young. So long as a writer has the freshness of youth on him, he can work the snapshot method, but when it passes he has nothing to fall back upon. It is here that he differs from the artist...
...frightfully adorable snapshot of little Adolf in rompers...