fires in the sky

The smoke and haze from a thousand fires burning in northern California has made the evening sky in the Bay Area an eerie red.

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Friendly Joe says:

Very strange, indeed.
Excellent depiction.
And next week I'll get to see for myself.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

leezie5 says:

it is a strange color, but ironically beautiful against the fiery sun. beautiful work...
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

davidteter says:

wow. i wish i could see it. the light in --erica's polaroids has been amazing.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

fotogail says:

a scary beauty
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

lawatt says:

so so smoky...
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

ryan muir says:

nice, looks like a japanese watercolor.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

lat454205 / Lisa says:

.....eerie indeed.

Even the birds want to fly far away.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

unbound67 says:

damn I love this
sorry to hear about the fires, though
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Insomniacdee says:

Yow. Unfortunately, those red skies are a familiar sight. Beautiful capture, though.

Hope everyone up in NorCal is okay.
xoxo
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Gustavo Cruceño Molina says:

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Exelent
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Will Stephenson says:

nice shot john, really simple and beautiful.
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BrianGri says:

Great capture!! Terrible disaster :-(
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

astro twilight says:

very beautiful an excellent capture of flight and disaster
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

john curley says:

thanks very much all.

it does feel odd to be kind of capitalizing on disaster, tho.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

astro twilight says:

john, it is not really capitalizing there is beauty in everything. (though in certain cruel and extreme circumstances one may wonder)
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Selma Weissmann says:

Nossa! esta aí é maravilhosa.
(My God! this one is awesome).
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

a poem....

Fire on the Hills
Robinson Jeffers

The deer were bounding like blown leaves
Under the smoke in front the roaring wave of the brush-fire;
I thought of the smaller lives that were caught.
Beauty is not always lovely; the fire was beautiful, the terror
Of the deer was beautiful; and when I returned
Down the back slopes after the fire had gone by, an eagle
Was perched on the jag of a burnt pine,
Insolent and gorged, cloaked in the folded storms of his shoulders
He had come from far off for the good hunting
With fire for his beater to drive the game; the sky was merciless
Blue, and the hills merciless black,
The sombre-feathered great bird sleepily merciless between them.
I thought, painfully, but the whole mind,
The destruction that brings an eagle from heaven is better than men.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

john curley says:

thanks diane. it's wonderful.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

SeenyaRita says:

i've been reading about this in whatever english papers we've been able to pick up and on-line. It's been such a terrible year for fire and the summer has only begun!

i agree that this is simple and beautiful.

not home yet. just arrived in paris. i return on july 8th.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Stephanoot says:

That is a seriously hot looking sun. I was in LA all last week and they haven't been affected by the forest fires down there yet (thankfully). Nice shot with the birds flying by.

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Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

judi333 says:

lovely.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Just Add Light says:

this is perfection.
Posted 18 months ago. ( permalink )

Esthr says:

John -

thanks! this is now my desktop background.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )

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