Surely the smart guys in our intelligence services picked up on that.................don't you think?
I don't know, but here in NYC we have plenty of cameras focused on sky line 24/7. For news,weather, internet feeds ,etc.
Oh, right... No one in Bali has cameras, and there are no TV stations, despite the fact it has a population of over three million. I forgot... *cough*
The explosian is center of picture,the smoke is from the explosian,not the fire.IMHO,whoever took this pic knew the bomb was fixin to go off and recorded it from a safe distance.
Utter nonsense.
The smoke in the photo has had time to rise several hundred feet. That doesn't happen instantly. At least several seconds have elapsed from the initial explosion, my estimate would be ten seconds or so.
That's plenty of time for anyone in the area with a camera to look over when they noticed the flash, wonder "whoa, what the hell is that", and think to snap a photo.
Consider the distance the photo was taken from, how many people would be within that radius (thousands at the very least, more likely tens of thousands), and how many of them would likely have a camera handy (in a tourist-friendly, Asian city, at that).
It's ludicrous to insist that someone "had" to have been "ready" for the explosion in order for that photo to be taken.
Likewise, consider that there were several photos, and one lucky excellent *video*, of the *first* jet hitting the WTC on 9/11. We live in an age of ubiquitous cameras and videocams. It would be amazing if the first few seconds of the explosion *hadn't* been captured serendipitously at least once.