Melbourne Office Depot Robbery
Posted on 22. Jul, 2008 by Terry Reinert in Photography
I got a call this morning that led me to bust out the police scanner and dive into the truck for a chance at playing Photojournalist again. The Office Depot in town was robbed this morning and it was believed that the employees were being held hostage. You can real the Fox News story or the CF News 13 story for more information. This is about the time that I wish I had a much better telephoto zoom lens. Having the Canon 100mm-400mm fast lens would be great compared to the 75mm-300mm slow lens that I have now.
I got there just after the SWAT team had breached the building. They did not find anyone inside; the bad guys must have fled before the police arrived. If I had just found out about it a little earlier or traffic didn’t hold me up then I could have gotten photos of the SWAT team breaching the door and going in. Figures I would miss all the action.
The good news is that I spotted a few sniper nests that no one else had seen (as far as I know). So I made sure to be in the perfect position to get photos of them coming down. Its not all that hard to know where the snipers are going to be if you have some common sense. Of course, my military training doesn’t hurt.
So there is my big excitement for the morning. I got to play photojournalist. One really good thing that came out of this is I made a few contacts in the news industry. One guy is going to Afghanistan in September for a few days and I am going to work on getting on the same trip. That would be awesome.
Keep an eye on the news websites and TV channels. I sent the photos off to a few different places and it looks like a few channels might be publishing them.
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Jill V
22. Jul, 2008
What an exciting way to capture moments. IT is so great to see you out trying to be a part of daily events! There is a true difference between being alive and truly living! It seems like you choose the later and I admire that.
Terry
23. Jul, 2008
Hi Jill,
I highly agree with that statement. There are so many people that just go about their day to day lives without ever feeling alive. I do not “live only for today” but I do make sure to “live everyday”.
Thanks for the comment!