As a photojournalist, I get to see and do some really cool stuff.
I have, in the past few years
Photographed and chatted too Sir Jackie Stewart (race car driver, from an era where many died, and safety wasn't a huge concern)
Sat in the passenger side of an ARC spec rally car and been driven through the forest at 160+kph (100mph)
Sat in the passenger side of a 380hp drift car, while being driven full tilt round the track - its an interesting sensation watching the upcoming corners through the side windows
Watched a Bushfire tear through bush, flames easily 20-30m tall (100ft) photographing from a helicopter.
seen a whole hillside glowing after a bushfire - that was really spooky looking, and something I will never forget - this was much more Epic looking live
flown in a luxury business jet (falcon 900, all leather and polished wood)
Seen concerts from the very front, watched sporting games from the sidelines
Met and photographed Megan Gale (Aussie model) and Jesinta Campbell (miss universe Australia, a few years back) along with a lot of other models.
photographed and chatted to Olympic and commonwealth games medalists, Steve Hooker, Lauren Mitchell, Blair Evans, and others I can't remember
Spent an hour ordering military helicopters around, so I could get a great photo instead of an average one
Photographed and chatted to Timomatic, and a number of other musicians/singers
Spent an hour in an underground mine simulator, in the middle of the city, hundreds of kilometers from a mine site
chatted to and photographed heaps of people, from multimillionaire CEOs to homeless people with no money, and heard their story's.
Today though, I'm off sick (bursitis in my right elbow) so i spent time with my Wife and daughter (the coolest thing I could possibly ever do)
EDIT - and added some photos too
I knew I forgot some.
I spent a whole day with a circus, most of them were related (brothers, sisters, cousins, wives, husbands , daughters, sons, etc) went though with a journalist and a VJ, and did a "Day in the life of" type piece, I even climbed up in the rigging to do some photos of the trapeze, looking down on them.
this one is from that nights show - I can't find any from the rrehearsals
I should also add, that for everything cool I do, there is an opposite.
days sitting outside a building waiting for a certain person to walk out, being stuck in the sun all day at crime scenes, watching people react when they realize their house has burnt to the ground during a bushfire, there is a lot of jobs that just plain suck, and a lot that make you question why you do it, but then there is the days I described earlier, where it just rocks !