Big field fire in Germany and I became a part of the news :)
“Several hectares of field between Dahlen and Bucha in flames”
http://www.lvz.de/Region/Oschatz/Mehrere-Hektar-Feld-zwischen-Dahlen-und-Bucha-in-Flammen
Source: Sven Bartsch
Stories are really ‘everywhere’ even in the most unexpected corners!
This afternoon I was walking my dog … throwing a ball than … my eye captured an enormous, thick, grayish cloud on the horizon, growing bigger and bigger. Fire? … FIRE! Instinctively I turned around … YES, A STORY! My dog, with her ball in her mouth, ran after me. “No time to play girl, I have to get my cameras!” Out of breath I ran into the house and towards my equipment; “Fire! … There is a big fire, quick start the car and hit the gas!” (Shit, I have no condition … pffft) “Fuck, where is my press card! Has anyone see my pre… never mind, got it.” I throw everything in the back seat of the car … stick the press card behind the windshield that says I’m from the European press and prepare my camera that can take both photos and moving images. “Can this fucking car not go faster, that snail just passed us!” (I am too late … I am too late) When I finally arrive at the scene of the disaster, well disaster … nevertheless, I jump out of the car with a rolling camera.
The heat of the flames are hitting me in the face as I hear a voice coming from somewhere out of the thick smoke; “Who are you? … What are you doing here?” A big firefighter is walking towards me … “Press, I’m from the press.” Under some slight protest, I am tolerated at the scene and I walk with my camera between the fires and firemen taking photos and recording what is happening. Two hours after I mailed my side of the story to several newspapers, I see the first articles rolling over the net but they are not mine… FUCK! But it got even more … (*@#ß?*@!) … one of my ‘colleagues’ was faster than me and got his photo published in where I was filming the firemen. Well people, I got my story but it turned out it was published from a slightly different angle as I had hoped it would be … HA HA HA. (photo above)
Source: Maria Anna van Driel
Source: Maria Anna van Driel