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Kaili

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 06:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I didn't really want to start a new thread for this picture, and I thought about putting it in the News & Views 'How Do You Feel About This Picture' thread.. but then I decided that more people will see it this way. The photo was mailed to me by my cousin, who is a firefighter with the following message...

This awesome picture was taken in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6 by a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska, by the name of John McColgan ,with a Digital camera. Since he was working while he took the picture, he cannot sell or profit from it, so he should at least be recognized as the photographer of this once-in-a-lifetime shot. Please forward this on to your email contacts. Maybe someday it will get back to him and we can show him that he has indeed been recognized for his efforts! (See attached file: Awesom.jpg)

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Heyltslori

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 06:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
wow

Squaredsc

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
yeah that about sums it up lori.

Goddessatlaw

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:16 am EditMoveDeleteIP
This photograph delivers on so many levels it's impossible to summarize my thoughts on it. I've set it as wallpaper, though - spectacular. Thank you for sharing this, Kaili.

Kaili

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I love it- I thought about making it my wallpaper, but I have my dog in a really neat picture- he's white and he's standing on ice on lake superior on a clear day so the whole picture is white and blue- kinda weird looking but it looks like he's on clouds.

Anyway- this picture :) I think it's kind of sad- for the deer in the picture knowing that they're probably panicked and in the only place they can go- the water. It is hard to explain- it's so surreal looking that it looks more like a painting than an actual photograph.

Sasman

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
interesting link about this photo

Jeep

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:53 am EditMoveDeleteIP
OK, I don't get the dates. It says they posted the photo in September 1999, but claims it was taken 8/6/2000....?

Regardless, it's a magnificent photo, but makes me extremely sad. Every time I see something like this on TV, I tell my hubby that they never say anything about the poor wildlife. It just breaks my heart to think about it.

Midlifer

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:04 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I said "wow" out loud before I even saw Heyitslori's post!

Egbok

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili, can you email the picture to Egbok77@aol.com - I sure would appreciate it!

I am in the process of learning how to work with digital pictures on my computer and I would like to print out this picture for my office cubicle.

I, too, hate to think about the loss of wildlife when these types of fires hit but on the other hand, this process helps to create fertile soil and lots of new trees.

Thanks for sharing this picture Kaili!

Urgrace

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
The year 1999 was probably someone's typo, because the rest of the articles and publication comes after Aug 2000.

The picture is an awesome wonder, something most of us have never witnessed first hand.

My bil has a very old lamp, one that rotates an inner shadow of a picture behind a see through picture when the light is turned on inside. The depiction is a lot like this photo of a forest fire and wildlife, but flickering as if the fire were alive within.

Kaili

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I will absolutely email it to you (you can also right click and save it). The original I was emailed was a little bigger though. I had to put it in Photoshop and shrink it down a bit to post it :)

Kaili

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Egbok...Sent :)

Egbok

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 09:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thank you Kaili! I right clicked and saved the pic to Word...so I'll try to print it out on a color printer here at work. I appreciate you emailing to my home computer though...thanks!

Myjohnhenry

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 10:02 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Off topic, but Eg...we had a lamp similar to that when I was growing up. I think ours was something like a boat sailing a river...very calming and neat to see.

Pamy

Friday, September 05, 2003 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It reminds me of a scene from Bambi. It is an amazing picture, I hope those animals got away.

Fabnsab

Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 02:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
They should allow him to sell it and the proceeds go to the wildlife fund. That is an amazing site.

Juju2bigdog

Monday, September 08, 2003 - 06:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Off topic also, but those picture lamps were fairly common when I was growing up. We didn't have one though.

Lostintheglades

Tuesday, September 09, 2003 - 07:32 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great picture...Pamy...my first thought was of the Bambi also.