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The Power of the Still Image. The Image is Important? Or The Image is Everything??????

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Gai Waterhouse walks away from an angry John Singleton and a downcast Nash Rawiller What is the role of the Still Photographer?  Well, on track when working in a press capacity, it's to capture the news, and the story of the day.  It's also our job to objectively, accurately and sensitively record for the public record what happened. To capture the emotion, feelings and mood of the moment.  The skill of a truly good still photographer is so much more than just asking your subject to put their arms around each other, and to hold a trophy up, or to give it, or each other, a kiss.  John Singleton and Gai Waterhouse are in the middle of a spectacular and public fallout.  They have been friends for over 30 years, and it's been a highly successful and public friendship.  Their friendship undoubtedly revolved around trust and a belief in the other. I took this image shortly after More Joyous had run the worst race of her career to finish 2nd last in...