I work for the National Parks and Wildife Service in New South Wales, Australia. With the summer bushfire season approaching, we are going through our fire trainig . Every 2 years we have to refresh our training with helicopters - working safely, hover entry/exit and winch training (we end up being put into some pretty interesting places and the helicopter can't always land).

Unfortunatly the wind and the sun weren't lining up this day and since the wind direction is more important to the helicopter staying in the air than my photo requirements, most of the action was in shadow.