Hell on earth Photo

Photographer’s Note

During the summer in the south of Italy it's quite easy to have infernal view like this.
After the products of the fields are collected they use to "clean" it by burning the remaining dry part.
Somtimes it happens that these fire goes out of control creating huge problems. We're facing a very bad summer in Italy, due to large fires area all over the country.

laroze, Valerka, jafadabret, Silke, Cretense, bakes888, Clementi, pablominto, Jeppo, touristdidi has marked this note useful

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Bruno40 (6440) 2007-08-10 0:44

Giorgio
I like the sharpness on the flames and the difference of sharpness on the trees behind the heat wave. The DOF you used plays very well here.
TFS
Jorge

laroze (965) 2007-08-10 1:31

Bonjour Giorgio,

Contraste saisisssant entre les ombres et la lumière mettant en valeur tous ces petits feux allumés dans le champ.
Bonne journée
Nicole

Valerka (8159) 2007-08-10 2:22

Ciao, Giorgio!
What topical photo! It's a reporterlike one!I understand you very well, as we've had a similar problem this summer. You must have a good zoom to give such a close shot,or you are simply a courageous man.
Nice WE and Friday evening.
TFS
Valerka:)

feather (49858) 2007-08-10 6:31

I like how your camera has picked up the heat haze we can see through the smoke. It is quite a worrying sight. For quite a few years now this practice was banned in the UK and we don't have anything like the dryness of Southern Europe.
Kath

jafadabret (39541) 2007-08-10 7:53

Giogio, c'est très bien vu et composé ces flammes qui courent dans le champ pour le fertiliser. J'aurais cadré plus serré en enlevant le ciel pour donner un effet plus dramatique.
Jacques

Silke (3023) 2007-08-10 12:54

Ouch! that really does look like Dante's vision of hell in the making
superb colours
TFS
silke

konok (2005) 2007-08-11 9:43

I agree from word to word with Bruno!
Regards
Janos

Cretense (55946) 2007-08-11 14:23

Hi Giorgio!

Very impressive picture. This is something happening in Greece too. sometimes the farmers are not very careful and the fire gets out of control.

Ciao, Hercules

bakes888 (18165) 2007-08-12 2:26

Hi Giorgio. Nice photo. Good colours and details. Well composed with good layers of interest. Well captured and thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Paul.

Clementi (43943) 2007-08-12 2:32

Ciao Giorgio,
hai fatto centro , con questa foto hai parzialmente spiegato la ragione di molti incendi, purtroppo non sono solo questi i problemi ma in larga parte sono quelli di origine dolosa .
ottimo tempismo e foto da reportage .
bel lavoro
Giorgio

pablominto (40578) 2007-08-14 10:19

Hello Giorgio,
Oh yes, indeed it happens they get out of control!
They used to do that here too before, but I think it is forbidden now?
A good documentary photograph, I notice the hot air above the flames!
Greetings,
Pablo -

atus (15452) 2007-08-16 11:49

Ciao Giorgio,
foto di grande e triste attualità. è molto impressionante da vedere questa foto se si pensa a tutti gli incendi incontrollati che si verificano durante le stagioni calde e in tutto il mondo, spesso per colpa dei cosidetti controllati poi...
Bravo e complimenti!
Attila

Jeppo (11872) 2007-08-22 2:30

Ciao Giorgio,

spiegazione interessante...ed ottimo tempismo nel catturare le fiamme....mi piace il contrasto tra il nero delle sterpaglie ed i restanti colori caldi

ciao
Silvio

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