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- Anzac Day 2010 – this image went front page.
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- Youngest new nurse at the hospital who was inspired by mother. Her Grandmother was also a nurse.
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- Local Salvation Army volunteers started a cafe for people to meet and buy cheap coffe and cakes.
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- Three award winning Speech Pathology graduates,
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- Kinross dementia patients win the King Pin Bolwing league played throughout Perth.
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- Secret Harbour, Perth, boat race.
Working as a press photographer for the community news can be chaotic at times even on a casual basis. DEADLINES……. Everything at a newspaper is about deadlines.
The Press Photographers I have met are skillful, diplomatic people, who work under pressure to capture the best possible images to document events, tell a story, meet the picture editor’s deadlines and help sell the newspaper. The work is varied and needs to be turned over quickly. In my case I get 30 minutes at each job before I head to the next. Some days I can get 5 or 6 jobs. The variety is enormous from shooting Old Bob on his allotment with his prize winning turnip to a football match, a pet funeral service, a hospital opening, meeting the State Premier or new babies at the hospital and of course many other issues that the Community News papers bring to the attention of the public.
Lighting and space can be can be challenging and sometimes the people themselves have clear ideas of what they would like (everyone is a photographer) which you know wont work and your Editor will not be happy with. This is were the diplomacy comes in.
I love the job. Every day I get to work in the community is different, you just don’t know what is coming next. I am the only woman on staff as a photographer for Community News (News Limited) Group, Perth, Western Australia and proud to be!
