Politics is now in my daily life, but sometimes you get a look at the top end of town. I like our current PM. The camera tends to see the real person, no hiding, no smoke or mirrors. I studied our PM for over half an hour an at no time did he seem false, disingenuous, glib, robotic or disinterested. He was late, but that was likely due to spending time with people who need to be heard.

Our previous PM could be accused of lacking some of these.

Kit was different to usual.

Getting an hours notice to be an hour away, I quickly swapped out the 40-150 f4 for the f2.8 model with the mated EM1 mk2 I use for sport. This had nothing to do with lens focussing speed or sharpness, which I consider to be basically equal, but a possible need for a wider aperture if indoors. This allowed me to have the G9 ready with the 12-40, a lens I have rediscoverred an appreciation for. The EM1mk2 I use in my day bag was sporting the 9mm, which was the dual star of the show with the long lens.

Silent operation, multiple angle shooting (at one point I was actually holding the camera and lens in front of a TV cameramans’ stomach, directly below his rig, so sharing his angle without him even noticing), multiple cameras and therefore more lenses (18-300 covered, all with speed).

Fun, but tempered by the seriousness of the situation. The floods in this beautiful region of Tasmania have added just another layer of pain on a farming community that have been suffocating under multiple pressures for a while now. We can only hope as a whole, that visits like this make a real difference, now and in the future, becasue on-going effects of these disasters are often forgotten.