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1 00:00:00,695 --> 00:00:02,411 Sometimes I think I'm a bit crazy to 2 00:00:02,411 --> 00:00:06,707 go out in the rain, or climb a fence or cross a swollen creek, or 3 00:00:06,707 --> 00:00:11,105 go for a drive for what worked out to be almost a thousand miles, 4 00:00:11,105 --> 00:00:13,150 to take a photograph of one sign. 5 00:00:14,447 --> 00:00:16,888 My name is Gideon, and my username is Gnangarra 6 00:00:16,888 --> 00:00:20,662 In Australia, there's that old fable about the outback. 7 00:00:21,379 --> 00:00:23,879 and there was a sign for one of the shires I knew I had seen it before. 8 00:00:24,231 --> 00:00:26,191 And all it says is "Outback starts here." 9 00:00:26,941 --> 00:00:30,509 So, I drove from Perth up to the sign, took a photo, and drove back home again. 10 00:00:30,952 --> 00:00:33,835 It all began with the Kangaroo Paw I clicked on the Wikipedia article. 11 00:00:35,0 --> 00:00:36,43 And it said, this is the floral emblem of Western Australia, or something - and that's it! 12 00:00:39,0 --> 00:00:41,1 I knew more about the flower than what was there, 13 00:00:41,155 --> 00:00:45,155 and I saw the l little button at the top that said edit this page, so I started editing. 14 00:00:45,218 --> 00:00:50,792 A Wikipedia Photographer is a fantastic world, because you can pick and choose what you realize -- 15 00:00:50,792 --> 00:00:55,465 you can change subjects, so you can go read an article about something, 16 00:00:55,465 --> 00:00:58,831 you can go, oh! I know what that is. You only need to go down the road, I'll take a drive. 17 00:00:58,831 --> 00:01:05,657 And take some photos, and it challenges you to change your styles. When you're looking at architecture, to plants, 18 00:01:06,451 --> 00:01:08,917 to full-on scenery. 19 00:01:09,278 --> 00:01:13,673 I like shooting the flowers in Western Australia, because there's just so many of them. 20 00:01:14,224 --> 00:01:19,433 The variety is just going to take you years to shoot every one. 21 00:01:20,005 --> 00:01:23,686 That's part of the challenge - getting in, and finding some of these flowers when they're in season. 22 00:01:23,686 --> 00:01:28,412 A lot of them are endangered. A lot of them are in restricted areas where you aren't supposed to go. 23 00:01:29,04 --> 00:01:35,604 A lot of them -- you know a general location, but you don't know a physical location, 24 00:01:36,07 --> 00:01:37,305 so you've got to work that out yourself. 25 00:01:38,02 --> 00:01:40,46 One plant, it's a banksia -- 26 00:01:40,46 --> 00:01:43,70 and to get photos of that, it's in a very small area, 27 00:01:43,696 --> 00:01:46,94 it's more or less a swampy ground type thing. 28 00:01:46,937 --> 00:01:50,95 In the Botanical Gardens, where I originally took a couple of photos of the flower 29 00:01:50,951 --> 00:01:53,42 they've got one specimen growing there. 30 00:01:53,417 --> 00:01:56,92 So, I got some of those, and then as the article was going to featured, 31 00:01:56,981 --> 00:02:00,64 I went to actually photograph the species in its location. 32 00:02:00,639 --> 00:02:03,89 which is the best way to present it anyway. 33 00:02:03,892 --> 00:02:11,82 So, I went to this place, and it's circled by a 6-foot high cyclone fence with three strands of barbed wire across the top. 34 00:02:11,816 --> 00:02:16,36 So, up and over I go, and I took my photos -- no problem at all -- 35 00:02:16,359 --> 00:02:22,76 and about six months later, a fire goes through the area and absolutely destroys everything - flattens it. 36 00:02:22,761 --> 00:02:28,56 but that's good for the plant, because the Banksia release their seeds after a fire has gone through. 37 00:02:29,454 --> 00:02:32,73 And then the seeds germinate in the ash, and grow up from there. 38 00:02:32,726 --> 00:02:35,70 So, here's this article we're going through, and it's like, OK! 39 00:02:35,695 --> 00:02:41,50 I'm going to go back and get some seedling photos in the same area. 40 00:02:41,56 --> 00:02:42,91 I had to go back over the fence again. 41 00:02:42,911 --> 00:02:47,94 The ground was a lot wet and soggy, and that makes it interesting to start with. 42 00:02:47,939 --> 00:02:53,48 I took a photo of the plant and get some leaf photos, show some nice images of the seedlings climbing back over the fence, 43 00:02:53,48 --> 00:02:57,47 and I get across the drain, and of course, I was protecting my camera, 44 00:02:57,474 --> 00:02:59,06 it doesn't matter about anything else. 45 00:02:59,055 --> 00:03:00,58 I stepped up onto the side - my foot slides. 46 00:03:00,581 --> 00:03:07,65 So I got back down into the swamp, into the drain, and climb back out -- boot missing. 47 00:03:07,647 --> 00:03:08,65 Oh well! 48 00:03:08,647 --> 00:03:11,15 So yeah, a pair of boots. 49 00:03:11,064 --> 00:03:12,95 Director: Victor Grigas 50 00:03:14,59 --> 00:03:15,53 Codirector: David Grossman 51 00:03:15,532 --> 00:03:16,53 Producer: Zack Exley 52 00:03:16,879 --> 00:03:17,78 Director of Photography: Pruitt Y. Allen 53 00:03:17,701 --> 00:03:19,10 Video Photographers: Jack Harris, Adam Parr, Matthew Storck 54 00:03:19,098 --> 00:03:20,15 Portrait Photographers: Adam Novak, Karen Sayre 55 00:03:20,147 --> 00:03:21,40 Video Editors: Justine Gendron, Victor Grigas, Jawad Qadir 56 00:03:21,585 --> 00:03:23,13 Interviewers: Alma Shapa, Jonathan Curiel, Stephen Geer, Corey O'Brien, Frank O'Brien, Jacob Wilson, Dan McSwain 57 00:03:23,129 --> 00:03:23,93 Production Coordinators: Megan Hernandez, Bryony Jones, Beatrice Springborn 58 00:03:23,93 --> 00:03:24,43 Production Assistants: Toby Hessenauer, Kristin Rigsby 59 00:03:24,43 --> 00:03:25,43 Transcription Services: Kate Aleo, Michael Beattie, Karen Callier, Petro Leigh, Mimi Li, Jacqui Pastor, Kristie Robinson, Brittany Turner, Susan Walling 60 00:03:25,435 --> 00:03:25,68 Makeup: Melissa Klein 61 00:03:26,092 --> 00:03:26,34 Titles: Vibha Bamba, Trevor Parscal 62 00:03:26,686 --> 00:03:26,94 Writer: Desirina Boskovich 63 00:03:26,702 --> 00:03:26,92 English Closed Captions: AlanKelly VerbatimIT 64 00:03:26,921 --> 00:03:27,00 .