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The Forest Service for sometime now, has been gathering up fallen and semi-burnt wood and burning it as a measure against future fires. Seen in Yosemite Valley, not far from the base of El Capitan. Good Practice.
Explored on March 23, 2024 at #452.
This digital painting was inspired by "Prescribed Burn At The Little Red School House Nature Center" by Orland Park Birdie Girl: flic.kr/p/QWsrHC
Created in Krita.
It was also inspired by Lighting Mentor's lesson on colour relativity, "Power In The Grays" on YouTube: youtu.be/21mPduQsm1g?si=ZbpyILymtM_BP6on
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Today was a busy day but it had a peaceful ending. I got to point my camera into the dark for the first time in a while and and I got to spend it listening to the crackles and pops of a slash pile burn with a light snow coming down. Lately, I've been feeling cooped up and I think it's time I start knocking out that list of locations I've accumulated. Light painting season cometh.
No editing other than straighten and sharpen.
I went out for a small walk in the Forest on Saturday. It is the first time I have felt fit enough to walk since I had Covid back in December. There were signs up letting people know that controlled burning was taking place. Though seeing these huge flames would have told us that. We didn't stay out long as it was so cold. The wind was biting
"The law permits controlled burning each year from the first working day in November until the last working day of March. However, in practice it generally starts in early February because the worst of the winter weather is over, there are no birds nesting or animals producing young, the vegetation is still quite dry and the damp ground offers protection to the peaty soil. The process is strictly controlled and only a small percentage of the heathland is burned each year (on average 400 hectares) and only then in rotation, which traditionally is once every generation (about 25 years). A firebreak is first established around the area to be burned, which is made by using a cutting machine. The firebreaks are used to prevent the spread of flames to other parts of the heathland. Only skilled and experienced staff are permitted to undertake controlled burning of the heathland
One more in the comments below
Sistrurus miliarius miliarius x barbouri from South Carolina. I found this snake up on an overcast day, coiled outside a stumphole. The intergrades from this area will pretty much span the appearance spectrum of Carolina and Dusky Pigmies...anything from light to dark.
Evening controlled prairie burn, on a field off of SW 85th Street.
Southern Shawnee County, Kansas.
Tuesday evening 12 April 2016.
The Glen Ellyn Park District performed a controlled burn last Saturday at a park just off St. Charles Road. I happened to be driving by and thought what the heck, I'm going to get some photos of this. The subject matter is so different and it was fascinating watching them work. I waited quite a while for the fire to make it over to the pond. I thought the water reflections would help create some cool images. Below are a few more shots. The last 2 are of the fire starter from the crew.
A controlled burn creates towering clouds behind the Space Shuttle Atlantis building at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida
Wildfires are a big part of life in British Columbia, and when I took this photo in August 2017, more than 200 wildfires were burning across the province, forcing over 10,000 people to evacuate.
What we learned along the way is that not all fires are bad. A park ranger explained that wildfires are a natural and necessary part of the ecosystem. They clear out dead trees and decaying plants, allowing nutrients to return to the soil and making space for new growth. But the line between beneficial fires and destructive ones isn’t always clear.
This scene in Glacier National Park, Canada, was one of many where we saw non-destructive wildfires—a reminder that nature has its own way of renewing itself.
From 2,500 feet over Burke County, NC.
Synthesized IRG-->RGB cross-sampled image from a single exposure. Converted camera, Tiffen #12 filter. Worked up in Pixelbender and Photoshop.
Every spring the City of Toronto burns sections of high park to restore and protect Toronto’s rare black oak woodlands and savannahs. The prescribed burns are deliberately set and carefully controlled low fires that consumes dried leaves, small twigs and grass stems, but does not harm larger trees
walking through the burned gorse I noticed a small fire damage pine tree the cones clinging on, seedpod opened by the heat
No worries, this was a controlled burn and no actual houses were harmed in this burn.
"Hold tight wait till the party's over
Hold tight We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house" ~ The Talking Heads
The refuge's grasslands are managed using controlled burning, which deters woody vegetation and stimulates the growth of native species.
The Forest Service used to call these fuel reduction projects "controlled burns" until they realized how often they lost control of the fires. Now they call them "prescribed burns" so they can shrug off whatever happens with, "yeah, we meant to do that."
Long Valley near Wilson Peak and the Thunder Mountain Trail, south-central Utah.
24 February 2025
Earth Day 2018 in Central Oregon got a bit scary for some when winds whipped a controlled burn into a billowing bloom of smoke in the Deschutes National Forest. Fortunately, nothing burned that wasn't supposed to burn.
Feeling the need to post something even though I am not up to taking much yet. My physical therapist told me Friday that I would probably not be up to lifting my camera for three months! No way says I, not with an excursion to Arkansas planned for the end of this month and my first grandchild due to arrive the end of next month. However, Keith took me out on a photo jaunt yesterday and even though I took only my lightest lens, after trying a few photos,even with the camera's weight in my other hand, I have to admit that my shoulder started to ache. All the more reason to do my exercises diligently!
So.. back to the archives. These shots are taken the same day as the "Sleepy Hollow" shots, another photo jaunt with Keith.
Another shot from the controlled burn I was at. The BC Forestry service was 100% safety first. They each had extra equipment of everything and always had their first aid kits a short reach away. Thankfully no one had to use them. I'm pretty sure this worker is checking equipment, but it certainly looks like he's calm enough to be typing out his grocery list for the way home.
Photograph of a controlled burn smoke plume training across lake and horizon at sunset in the New Jersey Pinelands.
Yes, there was a forest fire down there...it was being "controlled" at the time. I didn't love the haze in the sky, but it sure made for dramatic sunsets.
Driving southbound I-35/Kansas Turnpike (around Mile Marker 113.6), driving next to controlled burning in the Flint Hills. Many fields to the north of the Turnpike were being burned on this day (based on southern winds that day). Incredible sight to view.
Chase County, Kansas
Saturday afternoon 21 March 2020
Looking back at the 1000 acre controlled burn from about 1/2 mile away. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Bayfield County, Wisconsin.
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This image is more documentary than beautiful… it shows the fire in the Helderberg mountains… which started at about 8 o’clock on Saturday morning and continued burning throughout the weekend.
It is believed that the fire started as a “controlled burn” which somehow got out of control. Duh… who in their right mind would attempt a controlled burn in 60 km/h winds… right next to a nature reserve... filled with tinder-dry vegetation!? Fortunately no lives were lost… although a number of houses and a beautiful hotel were completely engulfed and devastated by the fire. It took five helicopters dropping water, twenty fire-trucks and over 200 fire-fighters to bring the blaze under control.
I captured the two shots that make up this Vertorama while driving home from a sunset shoot in the Durbanville farm-lands on Saturday evening. The houses in the foreground are on the outskirts of Durbanville... and the mountain range where the fire is burning is approximately 50 kilometers away. I shot these images with my 200mm lens at full zoom… so that should give you a good idea of how big those flames were! They were massive… I could see them flickering with my naked eye (well, I wear glasses, so my eyes are never totally naked :))!
Nikon D300, Sigma 18-200mm at 200mm, aperture of f6.3, with a 1/5th second exposure.
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Taylor University in Upland held its annual prairie grass burn about a month ago. The field will soon be full again. The burn was attended by some local residents and Taylor students.
Tree silhouetted against orange colored smoke during a controlled burn in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in northern Wisconsin.
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