On the 18th day of the recount.

Local photographer Mickey Adair took to the sky to capture a perspective of the media crush.

Nobody else had shown.

This was the angle that had, compositionally it was best it showed featured where many of the trials that people around the world saw of ballot counting went on in the Leon County Courthouse.

And, of course, the Florida Supreme Court decided the case here, an these trucks started started out lining up here.

And as time went on and more and more attention came on along, and here was all the TV network news people lined up so I went everywhere, and I went on top of the Capitol to see if how many I could get in one picture.

And I realized that the only way to maximize it would be to be 1000 feet in the air that at that time, I was doing quite a bit of aerial photography.

I was planning to photograph a Jesse Jackson rally that was going on here in front of the, Supreme Court.

And why these snipers there and there, who they were there to protect, I don't know.

so as soon as I got outside, I saw.

All right, this is this is what I need, the sky conditions.

So I raced out to the airport, rented a plane and a pilot, circled around, shot, shot the scene from 14 different angles, thinking that my clients were in all these buildings in all directions.

A lot of lawyers and association firms.

And then I went back to the airport and, I didn't tell anybody what I'd done.

And I waited till all the satellite trucks had left town.