00:00I'm Phil Noble, senior photographer at Reuters, and here's how I took that photo that went viral.
00:11Oh, look at that stance!
00:31I'm based in the north of England. It's, you know, as far away from Norfolk as could possibly be. It's
00:37four and a half, five hours in a car with no traffic.
00:40So the breaking news comes through in the morning. The former Prince Andrew has been arrested.
00:45We make plans. We have people come to his house. We have people go to Royal Lodge in Windsor.
00:51And then, okay, Phil, can you start driving down?
00:54We don't know where we're going to go yet, but myself and my manager, Suzanne, we're going to look at
00:59different police stations.
01:00And then it's just ever decreasing circles, drive around, try the police station, phone colleagues, phone local contacts.
01:09Where could he be? Where might he have gone? Where should we look?
01:12And this was probably the fourth or fifth police station that Reuters had visited that night.
01:17When I arrived, it didn't look anything out of the ordinary. There was no cars. There was no increased activity.
01:24And to be honest, just before he arrived, I'd left and go back to the hotel.
01:28The hotel's an hour away from the police station we were at.
01:32And my colleague, Marissa, messaged me and said, look, two cars have just arrived.
01:36I think you should come back. Spun the car around, got back.
01:39And within a minute of arriving back, the shutters on the garage at the police station came up and two
01:44cars left.
01:45One of them he was in.
02:05That's not them, is it? No.
02:14there's so many moving parts you don't know where the car is going to come from
02:17where he's going to be sitting in the car obviously it's dark so you need to use flash
02:21it's hit and miss probably half an hour before i took the photo i'd done some test shots of
02:26other cars leaving the police station so i had a rough idea of what the camera settings
02:31may be but it's still you know more than luck than judgment when the car comes out you've got
02:37to try and guess where he's sitting which side of the car is he is he in the front is
02:41he in the back
02:42will the flash recycle in time yeah the photo gods were on my side yesterday
03:15for every car shot that you do the hit rate's really really low i mean there's there's so
03:20many variables at night it's slightly easier because there's no ambient light there's no
03:24reflections on the windscreen of the car it makes life a bit easier but yeah i mean if i've shot
03:30100 of these and got 10 i'd be amazed so last night was it was one of those kind of
03:36pinch me
03:37moments where you look at the back of the camera you're tired it's been a long day you know you've
03:42got him and then i said to my colleague can you just double check is this him because you want
03:47to
03:47make sure you you know you can't believe that you've got him as well as i did
04:06best photo photo it's probably not it you know it's it's a man shot at night through the back of
04:11a
04:11windscreen is it the best photo i've ever taken no is it up there with one of the most important
04:15100 and you know when you when you work in news it's not an exact science the best photos aren't
04:22always the most newsworthy
04:34yeah it's a bit surreal to be honest i mean in in today's climate of everyone's a photographer
04:39there's cameras everywhere social media mobile phones whatever it's it's really rare nowadays
04:45for one photographer one outlet to get one key moment like that i mean i can't remember the
04:50last time it's happened then it's yeah it's a little bit surreal to be honest
04:59i had they were flying out and then when i've seen the footage on tv we went bc
05:06yeah it didn't feel right
05:07it didn't feel right
05:08it doesn't feel good
05:08it didn't feel right
05:09it didn't feel good on the phone
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