Smoke on the water

All righty then -- here we go again with yet another attempt of visualising "Earth, Wind, Fire and Water" for this week's Twitter Photo Challenge.

I think I covered three out of four here too: Water is obvious, wind/air through smoke, fire trough fire (glow), and well -- earth isn't really represented here, unless the burning grass (the cargo of the origamo boat) counts as earth :-)

The great thing about Twitter Photo Challenge is that concentrating on a single subject a week at a time starts creative processes you didn't know you had. In this case, for instance, I had to learn how to fold a sheet of paper into an origami boat. Never done that before, and it sure was a new experience :-)

Technical yadda yadda yadda:

Aperture priority, f/16 (the camera chose 1/125 shutter speed). Underexposed by two stops to enhance colors. A single Speedlite was placed behind what you see here. It was covered with a CTO filter so that it'd create a sunset-y glow from behind. The flash was set to TTL and I had dialed in a slight under exposure.

The paper/origami boat was filled with dry grass. Added some oil and lit the fire. Snapped like a madman to get a decent exposure before everything burnt out.

Update: Slight crop on mortenprom's suggestion.