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I barely caught the sunset hitting this super cloud (I was lollygagging) I thought I had a bit more time. Turns out I only had a minute or two before the colour was gone.
Sun setting in the smoky sky over the mountains to the west of Medford Oregon. From Prescott Park, Roxy Ann Peak.
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We've been inundated with Smoke and it's been hard for me to get out and take pictures in it. This was taken from my backyard. I pray for everyone who is in danger from these fires and for all the firefighters who put their lives on the line every hour of every day.
Siller Helicopter (N7095B) is full of water and ready to put out some fires.
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It seems like everyone I know knows someone who has suffered a loss in the fires that are still raging in Northern California. Sonoma and Napa have been featured prominently in national news but my former home county of Mendocino has also been hit hard. The Redwood Valley house that my mother designed and built and lived in for over 40 years was destroyed by fire last year soon after it was purchased by the surrounding Frey Vineyards. The new fire has now claimed those vineyards and most certainly double-burned my parent's old home. So heartbreaking for the Freys, neighbors and countless others in this beautiful part of the country. Peace and healing to them.
This image is another version of an earlier post. See in comment section below. HSS.
California fires:
22 fires burning
170,00 acres burned
26 31 deaths, 100 400 missing
in the north 3500 homes burned
the bad ones are only 2 to 5% contained.
with a north wind blowing, the areas south of us are getting the smoke, including san francisco.
map and information here:
www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/fires/article1785064...
just a map here:
www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-fire-map-Interagen...
**an aside on the roses. I accidentally chomped off buds. I hate it when I do that. I tried to save them.
they tried to bloom.
and as another aside the exquisite watercolor of gracie is from my friend, ineke. in gracie's memory.
This sunset from last summer had some very unique colors happening even well into the blue hour. The fires that gave it such amazing color were happening over a 1000 miles away in California. Yet another example of how we're all connected.
Shot Notes: manually blended two exposures with masks in PS. Basically one exposed for the sky and one for the foreground.
This is the uncontrolled fire at Lombardi's pumpkin and vegetable ranch in Canyon country last year. all these pumpkins were cooked by the spreading fire. This ranch was burned probably about an hour after we evacuated. They lost everything. Many homes were burned in this fire started by a boy playing with matches.
Another shot of the intial stages of the Tamarack fire in Alpine County Ca.
0n a recent trip to Nevada I was driving to my sister's house in the Carson Valley, just below Lake Tahoe. As I came over the ridge this is what I saw. This is the beginning of the Tamarack Fire which I think started in Alpine County Ca., south and west of the Nevada border. By the next morning the fire was said to have increased to 6,000 acres. The day after that at 10,000.
Now (7-23) it has been reported to be above 58,000 acres.
Mother Nature is starting to get really upset with us.
Here's a picture I had planned to post last year, had already written the text below, but forgot about the picture as time went by.
I have mixed feelings about this picture. The fires in California created smoke that swept across 100's of miles. There were no clouds as the sun set this evening, but the smoke created a beautiful sunset, yet horrific knowing less than 75 miles away lives were being lost and changed forever as fires raged.
Driving through Douglas County Nevada where the smoke from the Tamarack fire in Alpine County was starting to come through.
I really didn't feel like sleeping the night I took this photo, wondering if my family might have to evacuate, when I saw on the Internet that Mount Miguel was burning. So at 1 am, I drove up Mount Helix, which is about a mile from my house and took three rolls of film of the fire on Mt. Miguel which was about three miles away. Taken with a Praktica MTL50 35 mm SLR, Fujifilm 200 DIN color film, 50 mm lens (not cropped), f1.8 with a 3 sec. exposure, developed at Costco, scanned by them. I didn't have a tripod, so I put the camera on a stone wall to take the shot. Those white spots in the upper left corner are stars.
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Full moon rising out of the smoke over Riverside County October 26, 2007.
Other than smoky air we were fine here. I packed up some things for my dad as they were within 1 mile of the Fallbrook evacuation area. However friends of mine were not spared and lost their homes.
Anderson Cooper visited Wolfson Children's Hospital. One of the most interesting celebrities that I have covered.
Friends enjoy the view during Red Sky Day, Wednesday September 9, 2020. The two men brought takeout and folding chairs to the top of Bernal Hill on a day when the massive amounts of smoke from nearby fires painted the sky red and then yellow, darkening the sky during the day and confusing humans and animals.
California is burning. Oregon is burning. Washington is burning. If you haven’t seen the smoke outside your window, you must have seen some of those eerie Bay area photos from Wednesday that looked more like images from an alien planet. Our air quality indices have been screaming in high hundreds (unhealthy to hazardous), and the faint bleeding sun on our horizon look more like a nightmare than a life-support. As of today (September 10, 2020), 3.1 million acres have burned in California alone (for scale, Connecticut's area is 3.5 million acres) and fourteen thousand firefighters are fighting 29 fires in California. Heroic helicopters have rescued hundreds of stranded people from burning national forests. But, seven folks (including an infant less than a year old) have died from these fires, and thousands of others are left without their homes –temporarily or permanently– under COVID-related restrictions and challenges. In some places, entire towns have burned down to nothing, while others have sustained damage, which will likely remain irreversible under our current economical strains. Who said one must die to be in hell? This is Dante’s inferno personified on our doorsteps. Hell is here, hell is now!
To keep people safe and focus all our thin resources on firefighting, every USFS national forests in California are now closed and our eight national parks should follow suit soon. This mandated forest closure has upset a lot of people; their irritation is evident from some of their social media posts:
”How about we bring back some good old fashioned logging, oh wait the tree huggers said they would rather see it burn than logged. So be it."
”They better be opening them up this hunting season..!”
“Close or not mother nature love to do more damage I guess all Hunter waisted (sic)…”
Who are these people?
And why the hell am I so angry at them?
Well… what I am going to say next will anger them in return. So be it.
It takes only one fool to light a fire, but it takes a battalion to fight it and it takes an entire city, an entire state, and sometimes, an entire generation to pay for it. Similarly, it took our penchant for an easy life to shift our planet’s climate. Now, California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment opined, if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at the current rate, the frequency of extreme wildfires will increase, and by 2100, the average area burned statewide would grow by a staggering 77 percent. Should we now get used to red skies and smoky air for every foreseeable Californian summer? Or, is there any hope of retaining our fabled blue skies and breathable air?
Let’s talk hope. Californian redwoods are totems of resilience that live thousands of years despite naturally occurring forest fires; those fire scars are their wrinkles of age. Their thick bark –laden with high water content and fire-resistant tannins– don’t burn off easily and protect the tender sapwood beneath. Pictured above is the view from within the hollow gut of a very old redwood in northern California; you may notice, it is charred, but not dead. We are now charring, but will we know how to protect our sapwood? To survive as a race, we must wake up from our petulant slumber of denial, get past our toxic brand of individualism and, much as our forefathers did, lean back on nature and let her lead the way. Mothers always forgive, if only we can muster the humility to apologize sincerely.
the culmination of the still burning Lake Arrowhead fires, the end of the westerd blowing Santa Ana Winds. the now eastward moving weathr has covered our desert village in a thick smoke cover.
From Las Vegas looking Westward over Mt. Charleston towards California. Must be a fire somewhere.
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The smoke from the terrible fire in Northern California has caused severe air pollution in the region, as far south as the Bay Area. While walking (slowly) yesterday I noticed how sadly beautiful it is here at the lake.
The smoke from the burning of Southern California, has started to come back on shore in Morro Bay. Red sun and yellow sky.
Work For Sale | www.milkywaymike.com | FB Fanpage | Twitter | Google+ | Youtube | InstagramThis hazy sunset created some amazing beams of light. The reason behind this was the fires in the surrounding states had blown smoke into Wyoming which settled in Yellowstone NP and Grand Tetons NP creating this smokey sunset!
Ventura fires totally blocked the sun later this morning.
One couple had bought they're dream home just five days ago...............;-(
The Wall Fire is burning in southeastern Butte County near Oroville, California. The fire has damaged/destroyed over ten structures and is currently causing additional evacuations.
While fire resources respond from throughout the state, the railroad keeps on moving.
The BNSF H-BARPAW prepares to take the siding at Craig while the Wall Fire rages in the distance. Three westbound trains are headed this way, signaling a busy night for both firefighters and railroaders.
Check here for updates regarding the fire:
www.fire.ca.gov/current_incid…/incidentdetails/…/1637
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