Wednesday, Jun 2, 2010

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By popular demand…

Due to the number of people querying Penny’s image on the June 2010 flyer, we thought we’d get her to give us a little background on it. This is what she had to say:

“That is the photo of mine that people mention most often. I took it for The Sydney Morning Herald in 2000 or 2001. I can remember it was a typical Sunday shift / ie, really boring, and the pic editor was scratching his head about how to fill the paper the next day. He was given a press release about an Open Day for the public at HMAS Penguin in Mosman, Sydney, and thought maybe we could get a pic out of it. So I was sent there to have a look and report back. That’s when I encountered the Navy divers doing these training exercises for the crowd. So, then I developed the negs back at the office the pic ed was thrilled, I was thrilled with the shot. The cherry on top for me was the following day, when the image had run in the paper. I was out on another job, shooting a portrait of Toni Collette, she mentioned a ‘really cool photo of some divers’ that she saw in the paper that day!”

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