USAR Exercise and London Fire Brigade Deputy Commissioner vi

[xerubus]

Roy Bishop (Deputy Commissioner London Fire Brigade) visited Whyte Island to present lessons learnt at the London Bombing. He was interested to see how we conduct our Command and Control procedures with a multi agency team. The rubble pile at Whyte Island was used for the USAR incident, Decontamination setup, and scientific unit testing.















Alot more shots from the event can be found in the following gallery: http://www.firefighters.com.au/gallery2 ... yteisland/

C&C more than welcome and appreciated.

cheers

[Michael]

Interesting pics mark as per usual.

Is that apart of brisbanes ailing public transport I see in the background?

[xerubus]

Thanks Michael.... and apologies for the poor quality of the shots... was interesting light to shoot in....

yeh.. one less of the old bcc buses on the road is good

cheers

[wendellt]

Mark
you covered the event well, regarding the lighting perhaps if the light ain't that nice give them the black and white treatment the 1st one works well.
Your 3rd image is the best.

I was looking through your other firefighter action shots
just wonderign how your camera and nikon glass handles the heat and smoke, my camera's grip is pealing off.

[Michael]

In regards to the lighting I think you handled it well, I really can't say you could have done anything better at a glance because it all looks fine to meand I know just how dificult it is to shoot with floodlights and reflective suits in the same area.

[xerubus]

Wendell.... thanks... regarding the heat and smoke... the only problem i have is either from fine dust in the air or the 'muck' in the smoke which leaves a nice oily coating on everything. in the next 6 mths I will only being using prime lenses for my fire work to reduce the chance of gunk (very technical word) being sucked in by zoom lenses.

Michael.. thanks... and yes... floodlights, reflective tape, flashing lights etc etc etc always make exposure a lot of fun... but i've done better in the past under the same type of conditions.. i just blew it last night. it happens...

cheers