Author Topic: Photo of the year? (Read 438 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** July 09, 2002, 09:40:18 AM »

Vallecito Reservoir - East of Durango, CO - June 22, 2002

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** July 09, 2002, 10:00:07 AM »

at first I though :

Wow picture with a nice Filter !

Secondly I noticed that the background it just a "Hyper mega" fire

with just a little flash added to light the foregound ...

what an idiot I'am

Wlfgng · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2002, 10:12:10 AM »

we've been seeing waaaay too much of that lately here in CO

vorticon · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2002, 10:15:57 AM »

looks pretty nice

midnight Target · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2002, 11:32:45 AM »

anyone have the pic of the elk in the river ..I think during the Yellowstone fires. I know it made the rounds of the internet about 1-1/2 years ago.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2002, 11:41:10 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
anyone have the pic of the elk in the river ..I think during the Yellowstone fires. I know it made the rounds of the internet about 1-1/2 years ago.

Yeah, that was a beauty too, looking for it now...

Pongo · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:23:11 PM »

anyone else fought forest fires befor?

Soulyss · « **Reply #7 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:35:58 PM »

I haven't fought forest fires personally, but my dad was in the forest service for awhile and he has some good stories that usually start with "we got out of the truck, they handed us a shovel and told us to hike in that direction till we found fire"

he also now has a deep rooted affinity for poison oak.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #8 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:40:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
anyone else fought forest fires befor?

No, unforgiving, thankless job that is only for hero's...IMO.

MrBill · « **Reply #9 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:51:07 PM »

'66-'67 don't, remember off hand, the year Montana, Idaho, Washington had the big burns. They were paying me like $3.75 an hour and paying my chain saw some $7.50 an hour. No one cared who supplied the gas like 23 cents a gallon then. I did not last the whole fire season, those who do that work are truly heroes in my book.

AKDejaVu · « **Reply #10 on:** July 09, 2002, 12:59:41 PM »

Its amazing how natural disasters make the coolest photos. I still think back to the images from St. Helens blowing.

AKDejaVu

DA98 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 09, 2002, 01:12:11 PM »

eskimo2 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 09, 2002, 01:42:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
anyone else fought forest fires befor?

I was a volunteer firefighter in Alaska and Colorado.
We had lots of fires in Alaska, couldn't begin to count them.
One of my hometowns in Alaska burned down in 96 (Houston Alaska, where I was a firefighter). 40,000 acres burned and we lost over 400 structures. I had just moved to Colorado when the fire broke out. My brother was on the first truck to respond. I talked to him on the second day of the fire, he and all of my old firefighter friends hadn't slept since it started. They were losing houses everywhere and there was no sign of getting the fire under controll. (No snow that winter and almost no rain that spring, followed by a huge windstorm. That's about as bad as fire conditions get.) I couldn't take not helping so I caught a plane to Alaska and got there in time to help relieve the folks on my department. It was an amazing experience. 12 firefighters that I knew lost their own homes while out protecting the homes of others.

The big fire in Colorado this year came within a few miles of where I was a volunteer, Woodland Park.

eskimo

superpug1 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 09, 2002, 02:27:03 PM »

scaty but nice. Almost buetiful is a morbid kinda way.

Apache · « **Reply #14 on:** July 09, 2002, 02:38:38 PM »

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Originally posted by Pongo
anyone else fought forest fires befor?

No and I don't want to. Scares the 'ell outta me.

Firefighters are courageous folks.