>> ACCIDENTS, CRIMES, THINGS THAT JUST HAPPEN WITH NO
WARNING.
THAT'S SPOT NEWS.
SOMETHING YOU CANNOT REALLY PLAN ON BUT THE MEDIA HAS TO COVER TO
KEEP US INFORMED.
IN THIS ADDITION OF THROUGH THE LENS REPUBLICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS
DAVE ROBACK AND DON TREEGER THEIR SHARE PICTURES AND
STORIES.
>> GENTLEMEN, ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE YOU IN AND THANKS.
APPRECIATE IT.
SPOT NEWS.
THAT'S THE ACCIDENT, THE FIRE, THE EXPLOSION, THE INCIDENT THAT
HAPPENS, AND YOU GO TO IT, AND YOU ROLL UP TO IT, AND YOU HAVE
NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO FIND WHEN YOU GET THERE.
IT'S ALWAYS -- >> ALWAYS A SURPRISE.
>> ALWAYS A SURPRISE.
DAVE WE'RE GOING TO START WITH SHOTS YOU TOOK AT A FIRE
SITUATION, AND I MEAN, THEY ARE REALLY AMAZING SHOTS, THE STUFF
THAT YOU GET BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME IN SPOT NEWS OBVIOUSLY YOU
ARE TAKING A STILL PICTURE, BUT YOU ARE TRYING TO CONVEY THE
ACTION AND THE URGENCY.
>> YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO ROLL UP TO.
AND ACTUALLY ON THIS ONE HERE, THERE WAS NOT MUCH OF A FIRE.
IT WAS A VERY COLD DAY, AND THE STORY IS THE PEOPLE FIGHTING THE
FIRE.
>> EXACTLY.
>> SO YOU TRY TO GET, YOU KNOW, THE ICE COMING OFF THE HELMETS
AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
LIKE I SAID IT WAS NOT A VERY BIG FIRE.
THESE GUYS WERE STRUGGLING BECAUSE IT WAS WOULD YOU PLEASE
COLD DAY, I THINK, IN JANUARY.
>> IT REMINDS YOU OF HOW TOUGH THE JOB IS, WHETHER IT'S THE
POLICE, FIRE, LINEMEN WHEN POWER LINES GO DOWN OR WHATEVER IT
MIGHT BE, LET'S LOOK AT THE NEXT PICTURE IS AMAZING IN THE WAY
IT'S FRAMED.
HOW DO YOU DO THAT?
IT'S LUCK AND SKILL?
>> IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHEN YOU ROLL UP YOU TAKE A LOOK AT
THE SCENE AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON, AND SINCE THIS WAS NOT
SPRINGFIELD YOU TRY TO GET THE LADDER IN THERE AND YOU TRY TO,
YOU KNOW, A BIT OF A LONG LENS AND THIS WAS UP OFF OF LIBERTY
STREET.
THIS THING WAS BURNING FOR A WHILE.
THEY TRIED TO KNOCK IT DOWN, BEST THEY COULD, AND THEN THEY
JUST ENDED UP RETREATING.
>> NEXT PHOTO REALLY TELLS THE STORY OF WHAT WE ALL USED TO SEE
WHEN WE COVERED ANY EVENTS LIKE THIS.
THE EMERGENCY FOLKS ARE THERE.
THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.
>> YEAH.
A LOT OF TIMES VICTIMS AND WHATEVER THEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE.
I BELIEVE THIS WAS THE NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, AND I DON'T KNOW IF
THIS WAS HIS DOG OR THE DOG FROM THE HOUSE, LIKE I SAID, HOUSE
FIRES ARE TRAGIC.
PEOPLE LOSE THEIR PROPERTY AND PEOPLE LOSE THEIR HOME AND LIKE
I SAID YOU TRY TO TELL A STORY.
YOU GET THE PICTURE OF THE BUILDING AND THE FIREFIGHTERS
WORKING BUT ALSO TRY TO GET PEOPLE AFFECTED.
NOT ALL THE TIMES PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BUT ANIMALS ARE, TOO,
SO YOU JUST -- YOU SCAN THE SCENE AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON,
AND LIKE I SAID YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO SEE WHEN
YOU ROLL UP TO A SPOT NEWS.
>> THE AMAZING THING IS YOU HAVE GOT TWO WORLDS RIGHT THERE ON
THE ONE PICTURE.
THE FIREFIGHTER READY TO GO IN AND DO WHATEVER IS NEEDED AND
THE NEIGHBOR CARRYING FOR THE DOG BROUGHT OUT OR UPSET BY THE
ACTIVITY ON THE STREET, AND THEY ARE EACH DOING THEIR OWN VERY
IMPORTANT THING AT THE SAME TIME.
A MILLION MILES APART IN A SENSE.
THE BURNING BUILDING AGAIN THAT SAYS IT ALL.
>> THIS ONE HERE, I WAS OFF THE CLOCK, IT WAS A SUNDAY MORNING
AND I WAS GOING TO BREAKFAST WITH MY DAUGHTER, AND WE JUST
PASSED THIS, AND THIS WAS BURNING, AND UNFORTUNATELY A
PERSON PASSED AWAY.
IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE
ROAD, AND YOU TELL YOUR DAUGHTER I WILL BE BACK IN A BIT, AND YOU
TRY TO TRAVEL WITH A CAMERA WHETHER IT'S IN THE TRUNK OF THE
CAR OR THE POCKET OR WHATEVER, AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY FULL
COMPLIMENT OF LENSES BUT I DID HAVE SOMETHING.
AND LIKE I SAID, THIS ENDED UP BEING A FATAL FIRE.
>> NOW DON TREEGER THIS PICTURE, THIS TO ME JUST AGAIN IS A STILL
PICTURE BUT THE SENSE OF URGENCY AND ACTION IS THERE.
>> THIS PHOTOGRAPH AND THE ONES THAT FOLLOW ARE FROM THE SAME
SCENE.
I WAS IN THE OFFICE ON A SATURDAY, A FEW YEARS AGO, AND A
CALL CAME IN A POLICE OFFICER WAS SHOT.
THAT IS NOT THE POLICE OFFICER.
JUST SO WE KNOW.
AND SO SAY RACED TO THE SCENE, AND IT WAS IN MASON SQUARE IN
SPRINGFIELD.
AND YOU START THINKING TO YOURSELF OK, THIS IS GOING TO BE
A BIG STORY IF IT'S TRUE, AND AS I WAS DRIVING, TWO POLICE
OFFICERS WERE SHOT.
SO YOU TELL YOURSELF TO BREATHE.
YOU HAVE TO BE VERY CONSCIOUS ABOUT BREATHING.
AND CALMING YOURSELF DOWN BECAUSE YOUR ADRENALINE IS
FLOWING WHEN YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO SPOT NEWS, AND I HAD CAMERAS
ON THE SEAT NEXT TO ME, AND I WAS DRIVING AND CHECKING THE
SETTINGS ON THE CAMERA BECAUSE I KNEW THAT I WOULD HAVE TO SHOOT
WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE CAR SO WE GET TO THE SCENE.
>> THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST PICTURES I MADE AT THE SCENE.
THIS IS BEFORE THEY POLICE TAPE WAS UP.
THIS IS ONE OF THE RESPONDING OFFICERS WITH HIS GUN OUT
RESPONDING TO THE SCENE.
I WAS DUCKING BEHIND THE CRUISER AND MADE THIS PICTURE AND WHAT
HAD HAPPENED, THIS GENTLEMAN HAD SHOT PEOPLE IN A BARBER SHOT IN
SPRINGFIELD AND THEY CHASED HIM TO A HOUSE AND THEN HE POPPED
OUT OF A TRUNK, FIRING AT THE OFFICERS WITH AN AUTOMATIC
WEAPON AND HIT TWO OF THEM AND THEY WERE FINE.
THEY WENT TO THE HOSPITAL BUT THEY WERE FINE.
THAT'S ONE MORE FROM THE SCENE, AND THAT'S THE SAME SCENE AGAIN,
YOU SCAN IT AND YOU TRY TO MAKE MANNY AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE WE DO
GALLERIES FOR ONLINE USE.
THE NEXT ONE WAS ALSO TAKEN, THE HOUSE CRASS THE STREET IS WHERE
THE GUNFIRE CAME FROM, AND THIS WAS A WOMAN IN THE CAR WITH HER
BABY, THE CAR, THAT THE GUY POPPED OUT OF SHOOTING I BELIEVE
THAT WAS A PICTURE THAT REALLY TELLS A STORY.
MADE A POWERFUL PICTURE WHILE I WAS CROUCHING, AND THAT'S ONE OF
THE OFFICERS SHOT.
>> STILL PAINFUL, I AM TOLD.
>> YEAH, I GUESS SO BUT HE CAUGHT THE BULLET IN THE VEST.
SO THESE ARE THE -- IF YOU CAN GET THERE FAST, YOU CAN GET SOME
GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS.
>> A LOT OF TIMES YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE UNTIL YOU GET BACK
TO THE OFFICE AND GO THROUGH THE STUFF BECAUSE YOU ARE JUST -- A
LOT OF TIMES IT'S UNCONSCIOUS.
YOU JUST DO IT.
SO, YOU KNOW.
>> YEAH.
IT'S REALLY -- IT'S INTENSE, I MEAN, I CAN REMEMBER BEING IN
VERY FEW SCENES IN THE OLD DAYS AT CHANNEL 40, AND GUYS MAYBE
YOU HAVE KNOWN ON THE FORCE, THAT YOU SEE THAT YOU JOKE
AROUND WITH ARE SCREAMING AND YELLING, GET DOWN, GET OUT OF
HERE AND GO AWAY.
THEY HAVE GOT A JOB TO DO.
THEY DON'T WANT ANYBODY ELSE TO GET HURT AND THEY DON'T WANT TO
GET HURT, AND THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO GET HURT, GENTLEMEN, GOOD
TO HAVE YOU IN AND WHAT DO WE TELL EVERYBODY?
>> DON'T FORGET TO BUY A NEWSPAPER, JIM.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
DAVE ROBACK AND DON TREEGER, THANKS FOR COMING BY.
>> THANK YOU.