Behind the lens: smh photographers on capturing the raging NSW bushfires on camera
More than 1.6 million hectares have already been razed as fires continue to burn around the state. Threephotographers offer their insights into the worst fires of living memory after being on the front line earlier this month.The difference between this event and all the other fire seasons I’ve covered since 2000 is the sheer scale of the fronts. Over 6000 kilometres of active fire fronts at the time of this writing.
I stepped into the Hillville fire that started southwest of Taree, on Friday, November 8. It had already been burning for a week, but it took a run that day as most fires up the coast did. In hindsight, the day probably would have been classified "catastrophic" as at the height, 17 fires in NSW burning under the emergency classification.
The following Tuesday, November 12, a statewide catastrophic rating was declared. Some media were billing it as "catastrophic Tuesday". In Katoomba from where I hail, people were packing cars.From Coffs Harbour down to Newcastle, we had nearly a dozen photographers that day representing various media outlets all talking together - some working behind the glass, others feeding in comms as they came to hand in real time.
Scenes from the Gospers Mountain fire when it overran Colo Heights and was classified as an emergency.On Thursday, November 19, I attended the Gospers Mountain fire in Colo Heights. Hilly terrain and shifting winds created erratic and fast-running outbreaks along Wheelbarrow Road where multiple properties were being impacted.
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