Barn fire

Here's three photos from Saturday morning's barn fire. A morning fog complicated the exposure settings for me. I had to use a lot of fill flash, although I didn't use it for any of these shots. (I have one other shot that I might post later that did use fill flash.)

The top photo is what was on our front page of the newspaper, two columns wide (kinda small). It's three firefighters using their pike poles to pull the tin roof out of the way so that they can get water on the fire.

Next is a shot of a firefighter running away from the barn as a large beam falls right where he'd been standing. It ran on the inside jump page. I made the photo while quickly walking backwards and shooting from the hip (or chest, probably more accurately). It's one of a series of shots.

Last is a shot that didn't run in the paper of the wall on the far end of the barn collapsing. This time nobody was standing too close when it fell.

Posted by JRC at August 25, 2005 06:08 PM | TrackBack