Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fires
May 12, 2022 17:44:21 #
I just got home Tuesday from being evacuated for the last two weeks. My house is fine. The first three are from home, the next two from where I was staying, and the last from last night at home again. I took both cameras with me. These are from the Leica Q2. I will download the Fujifilm later. Still a lot of smoke.
April 21. 1736
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April 21. 1803
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April 21. 1923
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April 29. 1538. Las Vegas, NM
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April 29. 1540. Las Vegas, NM
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Last night at home. 2024 Not sure but I think it's a reflection of the sunset.
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May 12, 2022 18:17:08 #
So good to hear that you are safe and back home, Barbara! Nice shots, but sorry about why you had the opportunity to take them.
May 12, 2022 18:33:45 #
NMGal wrote:
I just got home Tuesday from being evacuated for the last two weeks. My house is fine. The first three are from home, the next two from where I was staying, and the last from last night at home again. I took both cameras with me. These are from the Leica Q2. I will download the Fujifilm later. Still a lot of smoke.
Glad everything is okay!!!
Great images!!! Hell of a way to get them
May 12, 2022 18:38:40 #
Glad you and yours are safe and sound Barbara. Daunting set of images.
What part of New Mexico do you live?
Don
What part of New Mexico do you live?
Don
May 12, 2022 19:01:45 #
PAR4DCR wrote:
Glad you and yours are safe and sound Barbara. Daunting set of images.
What part of New Mexico do you live?
Don
What part of New Mexico do you live?
Don
Don, I live in the north eastern part.
May 12, 2022 19:05:48 #
Cany143
Loc: SE Utah
Leaving aside the obviousness of the fire's manifold tragic proportions, I hope you won't mind too much if I make a couple of photographic --which may be idiomatic 'to me' as well as similarly so to a like-minded body of landscape shooters in general)-- suggestions/observations that I hope you and others might find worth making. Here goes:
There are three kinds of atmospherics. Wordsworth (the poet) described them one way, J.M.W. Turner (the painter) described them similarly, but used different words, and countless others from all times ancient and modern, and from their various art and not-art based disciplines have done much the same. The terms have varied, the reasonings have been diverse, and the words they've used --not to mention the seminal works they've produced-- can be boiled down to these: the commonplace, the sentimental, and the sublime.
The atmospherics you've posted here are of that last order, the sublime. The 'problem' with these images lies in the fact that there's an (unwelcome? certainly so to one 'school' of art and/or photography, but not to another class more dedicated to a 'reporterly' factual view) intermixture of the commonplace and the sublime, and in conjunction, neither fortifies --or makes more coherent-- the other.
In nos. 1, 2, 3 and 6, I wish you'd found something more thematic or photographically organic to use as a useful foreground element, preferably something that 'drew the eye in' in some fashion, or what-have-you compositionally, and neither a propane tank nor a slice of silhouetted ridgeline accomplishes that. In nos. 4 and 5, the foreground elements are random at best, and do not belie the reason or the situation of the atmospherics. Had you somehow used those elements compositionally to 'point' the viewer to the sky (which lacks the 'force' of the smoke, clouds and color of the other images, but is anything but commonplace nonetheless), you'd have better communicated something better than 'randomness.'
I'm aware the above may sound to some...... well...... however it may sound. But its not my intent to negatively comment, however well or poorly I've stated my case.
There are three kinds of atmospherics. Wordsworth (the poet) described them one way, J.M.W. Turner (the painter) described them similarly, but used different words, and countless others from all times ancient and modern, and from their various art and not-art based disciplines have done much the same. The terms have varied, the reasonings have been diverse, and the words they've used --not to mention the seminal works they've produced-- can be boiled down to these: the commonplace, the sentimental, and the sublime.
The atmospherics you've posted here are of that last order, the sublime. The 'problem' with these images lies in the fact that there's an (unwelcome? certainly so to one 'school' of art and/or photography, but not to another class more dedicated to a 'reporterly' factual view) intermixture of the commonplace and the sublime, and in conjunction, neither fortifies --or makes more coherent-- the other.
In nos. 1, 2, 3 and 6, I wish you'd found something more thematic or photographically organic to use as a useful foreground element, preferably something that 'drew the eye in' in some fashion, or what-have-you compositionally, and neither a propane tank nor a slice of silhouetted ridgeline accomplishes that. In nos. 4 and 5, the foreground elements are random at best, and do not belie the reason or the situation of the atmospherics. Had you somehow used those elements compositionally to 'point' the viewer to the sky (which lacks the 'force' of the smoke, clouds and color of the other images, but is anything but commonplace nonetheless), you'd have better communicated something better than 'randomness.'
I'm aware the above may sound to some...... well...... however it may sound. But its not my intent to negatively comment, however well or poorly I've stated my case.
May 12, 2022 19:30:37 #
NMGal wrote:
I just got home Tuesday from being evacuated for the last two weeks. My house is fine. The first three are from home, the next two from where I was staying, and the last from last night at home again. I took both cameras with me. These are from the Leica Q2. I will download the Fujifilm later. Still a lot of smoke.
Nice images that capture an unfortunate event. Glad you house (and you) survived. I lived in the west many years ago and became familiar with that color and smell of the burning heat, smog and soot.
Stay well
May 12, 2022 21:26:14 #
Cany143, I think I know what you are saying and I agree. These would have been better if there was something in the foreground except black. But that is what was there.
May 13, 2022 06:52:44 #
May 13, 2022 08:22:18 #
Wow - I'm glad that you & home are fine - breathing that smokey air might not be advisable - check with local university about the air quality and precautions to take.
May 13, 2022 08:51:38 #
NMGal wrote:
I just got home Tuesday from being evacuated for the last two weeks. My house is fine. The first three are from home, the next two from where I was staying, and the last from last night at home again. I took both cameras with me. These are from the Leica Q2. I will download the Fujifilm later. Still a lot of smoke.
Fire is so scary and devastating. Glad you are safe
May 13, 2022 10:19:32 #
Wowsa Barbara...glad to hear you are home and safe!! Devastating scenes, seems like the wildfire season is year 'round now...
May 13, 2022 13:06:26 #
Glad to hear that you are home and are okay. Those are good, but scary looking documentary photos of the wildfires.
May 13, 2022 15:09:33 #
May 13, 2022 15:19:21 #
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