Sydney Photos: Press-Conference & Story
So I’ve already mentioned it a little already, but I promised the whole story so I’ve taken the time to dig out some facts and names and work through my collection of images.
On Friday the 5th of August I went up to Sydney for a camera meet. I was the first one there from Melbourne so I went into the city to have a look around, take some shots of the bridge, the Opera House and whatever else took my fancy. After taking some photos I think are quite nice I took a walk behind Government House and started to walk around in the gardens back there. It wasn’t long before I noticed a few uniforms persons walking around, an emergency services van and some staff setting up a podium. I had a few hours to kill at this point to I sat down on a bench and watched them set everything up. I swapped lens from the 18-70mm I had been using and started taking some long-range portrait shots of the uniformed officers with my 80-400, there was one guy ( DSC_4940 ) with an awful lot of medals and things on his uniform and I was quite determined to get a nice portrait of him. It was still early, 10am or so and the light was still soft.
More and more people turned up, mostly in uniform, but then the press started to arrive. Within a little while there were two press photographers and a whole heap of tv crews. By this point I had moved in closer and ended up drifting around with them while everything was getting set up.
Then the luxury cars arrived, with the Premier of New South Wales.
He was there giving a press conference on the new disaster plan that his security people had devised. He gave a short address on the system, then handed things over to Tony Kelly, the Minister for Emergency Services.
So I’m standing there, uninvited guest, large camera backpack on shoulders and occasionally the ground, standing 8 feet away from the Premier of NSW while he’s giving a speech on anti-terrorism readiness. Fun!
There were a few other people at the event that were readily identifyable; NSW Rural Fire Service, Assistant Commissioner – Keith Harrap NSW Rural Fire Service, Commissioner – Phil Koperberg NSW Rural Fire Service, Local Controller ( sutherland Shire ) – John Gonzalez NSW Police, Commissioner – Ken Moroney
NSW Rural Fire Service Local Controller ( sutherland Shire ) John Gonzalez NSW Rural Fire Service Assistant Commissioner Keith Harrap NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney Minister Tony Kelly The Premier & The Commissioner The Premier and the Minister for Emergency Services That’s it, walk towards Dean!!
The rest of the shots are here.
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