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An unexpected fire show on my way home - a straw stack chatched fire in this freezing cold. Jumped out of the car with my trusted Leica of course...
The hotel has a great fireplace that they light most nights - very cozy and nice sitting out there watching. I was happy to get the chance on Tuesday night - the other nights I could just smell the fire from my balcony when going to bed at midnight after working since 6am...
Some very nice folks from New Jersey and Annapolis were out there as well, enjoying the fire.
Old Chevy at a local car show.
Door reads;
City of Pittsburgh Bureau of Fire Battalion Chief #4
Little reflection of me taking the shot in the bumper
3am, handheld, drunk and on george street.
this photo made it to #429 on Explore on January 19th, 2007.
Seen in Kathmandu, Nepal. In Hinduism, fire is regarded as a purifier and sustainer of life.
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Robert Gordon and Link Wray led the revival of rockabilly in the late 1970s. They recorded two albums together- Robert Gordon with Link Wray in 1977 and Fresh Fish Special in 1978. It was on the second album that they recorded the Bruce Springsteen song Fire. Coincidentally during that same year, the Pointer Sisters had a massive hit with the same song.
Robert Gordon grew up listening to Elvis, Eddie Cochran and Link Wray and loving the old sound rock and roll. He had a rich baritone voice with a smooth sound. Gordon died from leukaemia in 2022 at age 75.
Link Wray, a Native American, was a guitar legend whose 1958 song Rumble earned notoriety as being the only instrumental song banned because it apparently encouraged juvenile delinquency, no mean feat for a song with no lyrics. Wray was one of the most innovative guitar players of the 1950s creating the "fuzz" sound later made more famous by Jimi Hendrix. Wray died in 2005 at age 76 from heart failure.
We're Here looks at Fire today and I chose the Springsteen cover by Robert Gordon and Link Wray. I was fortunate enough to have seen them perform at a club in Toronto in 1978 and they were everything I had expected them to be and more. I still have Robert Gordon's autograph.
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I really wish I could lie and say that I used flash in this picture, but the only light source I used was man's oldest flash, pure fire. I'm not saying it's quite possibly the purest, most amazing light source, but I will say it's pretty great.
I actually forgot that I had my 430EX in my camera bag, otherwise I would have grabbed it and used it so that I could use a faster shutter speed. If you check my EXIF data, you'll see that my settings were way crazier than usual due to the lack of flash. I'll probably do a shoot like this again so I can work on it next time. I love a good fire during the winter. Almost as much as a hot tub in the snow.
I'm pretty sure we exceeded the height limit for the fire coming off the fire pit (it was about twice what you see in this pic to begin with) but it was definitely warm. We used a ton of kindling wood (not realizing it was kindling wood) so it started fast and burnt great. Add smores to the mix for the night and all was good.
SIDE NOTE: This fire was crazy hot. Yes, I know that I look maniacal in this shot, but it literally felt like my skin was melting off my hands, so I think I deserve a slide on the expression.
I've been wanting to fiddle around with long exposures and fire. This was only 2 seconds shutter speed though, which came out pretty nicely in my opinion. I also had to, absolutely had to make this a minimalism type photo. After I pressed the shutter button, I was blowing into the fire. Took a few takes to get the shape I liked. Got a tad bit lightheaded from it.
BUT, I am happy :D
Walking home the other evening, a brief, bright, sunny respite from several days of heavy rain, passed this street performer fire-juggling for the tourists, he seemed to be enjoying it himself as much as the audience were
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I took this for a restaurant in Bountiful called the Mandarin. If you ever get a chance, it's the best chinese food in the west. See their site for more info.
Taken during the California Fires this year. From our home in Elk Grove, the fires are a good 50 miles away at this point and still our air is foul. Has been bad for over a month now. Afraid bad air will last until first good rains still a couple months away.
This photo was taken last night 5 doors down from my house. As far as I know everyone is safe... time to go change those batteries in our smoke detectors!
I wanted to document some of the Pinery fire (25th Nov 2015). Partly to understand it but also so that others can appreciate what the locals have to deal with.
The Jenkin history and my memories of farms, covers the Pinery fire area. I still have uncles and oher relatives in the area with farms.
My father grew up in the area and knows almost everyone affected in the local townships (Many are related to me in some way). We took a day to check out two of my uncles farms (one was my grandparents old farm),
We checked out the creeks and roads my father learnt to drive on and where my Grandfather had a push bike accident. .
The area had 2 feet high crops everywhere ...... gone. Nothing left. No ash, no roots, no nothing. Empty fields.
Lush green areas were starting to dry out for summer, but are now arid desert sands. Some areas feel like the drought striken Mallee scrub.
We visited many of my fathers friends. My father was checking up on people in the local car club, seeing what cars survived. A few were lost and we got to see them first hand.
My dad told me about going to School and knowing Allan Tiller, who died in the fire. We saw Paul Blacket's burnt out machinery. We saw the house where they had no insurance, 4 children.
It was a very sureal evnvonment with smoke on the horizen in many directions. Days later, state emergency services, fire forensics, county fire service trucks with emergency lights flashing and insurance assessors are everywhere.
Spot fires are still burning, homes still smouldering, hay still smoking and dead livestock still laying in fields.
In town, in Wasley, the local post office is burnt and so are the Bowls club, club rooms. To show how tough they are, the locals are playing bowls, with the club behind them in ruins.
As we go through town, we see a house intact, then a burnt out house, then another house ok, then a burnt out car. The railway lines and sleepers are still smouldering.
Many houses look intact but poeple are moving out. The beams in the cealing are about to collapse.
The fire front was about 42kms (26 miles) long and was being fanned by 90 km/hr (55 miles/hr) winds. Cars were catching on fire as people were driving to flee the scene.
Many cars simply died with the lack of ozygen and vapour lock.
The fire travelled quickly and caught people off guard.
I mentioned to my father about all the old ruins about the place that had been there for years. He told me that these where from the last great fire, January 1948.
trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/43753242
Tens of thousands of hectares of crops, livestock and expensive farm machinery have been destroyed.
Industry figures estimate the economic loss to farmers could top $100 million AUD and that more than 51,000 animals have died amid fears of even more widespread damage
The area affected by the massive blaze is home to many leading cereal and pulse grain producers, who grow wheat, barley, canola, lentils and chickpeas.
Almost two-thirds of the damaged zone was paddocks. Many farmers lost valuable hay for feed and revenue.
EIGHTY seven homes have been destroyed by the Pinery fire.
Friday it was announced that the fire had been contained, with 200 firefighters remaining on the fireground to monitor and control any flare-ups.
A further 388 farm sheds and outbuildings, 93 pieces of farm machinery and 98 vehicles were destroyed.
Two people have died.
Five people remain in a critical condition in hospital with serious burns.
Ninety people have sought assistance for very minor to critical injuries.
PIRSA has assessed more than 270 properties in the fireground. They continue to help farmers and livestock owners.
More than 50,000 poultry were lost in the fire.
About 950 sheep have had to be euthanised (a number which is expected to rise sharply).
The fire has burnt an area of 82,600 hectares (826 kms squared / 513 miles squared) and has a 265 kilometre perimeter. (164 miles)
Canon EOS 5D
2015
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