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February 7, 2009
Shadow Mountain Fire
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Here are my shots from the Shadow Mountain Fire. A house on Blue Sky Trail burned down, but the firemen did a great job of keeping the fire contained in the tinder-dry forest with 40 knot winds. They even kicked down a door and rescued the two golden retrievers from the house.
Update: While I was there, the woman showed up that owned the house. She was reportedly returning from a trip to Peru and arriving just as I was. She was, understandably, hysterical. True, no one died and even the dogs were saved, but once you know that, your house is still gone, and with it, a lot of memories as well.
These images are compiled into an 8 Meg (4:46) Adobe Flash slideshow(fire.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above.
These images were all captured with a Canon EOS 40D with a Canon BG-E2 battery grip. The short lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The long lens is a Canon L-series ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM) with an ET-83C hood.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (fire.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, backwards, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro.
The soundtrack is "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd off of the album The Dark Side of the Moon.
Click here to view the other slideshows.
Posted by Rob Kiser on February 7, 2009 at 12:24 PM
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