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Never Surrender . . . Never Give Up!!!
Never Surrender . . . Never Give Up!!!
NathanWert


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Challenge: Best of 2009 (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Location: Joshua's Grill, Portland St, Lancaster, NH
Date: Mar 24, 2009
Aperture: f4
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/64 second
Galleries: Action, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Jan 21, 2010

 Image: 2009_03_24_IMG_1621

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The photo:

This was taken on the second day of training. We were given this building to ultimately burn to the ground. The first day we lit several small fires and practiced putting them out. The second day (this day) we just burned it to the ground. The owners were making way for new construction. The building in the background was also burned a week later for the same reason.

Nobody was hurt during the burning of these buildings, except an EMT did fall and break his shoulder leaving the fire to go on an ambulance call, but was not injured because of the fire (other than he was watching).

Statistics
Place: 275 out of 445
Avg (all users): 5.5984
Avg (commenters): 5.9524
Avg (participants): 5.5316
Avg (non-participants): 5.8333
Views since voting: 1153
Views during voting: 404
Votes: 244
Comments: 21
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
01/28/2010 08:29:52 PM
That's a pretty cool capture of that fire. Nice job!
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 01/28/2010 06:50:28 AM
Terrific capture......6
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 01/27/2010 07:07:43 PM
Excellent photojournalism! You captured the adventure of this tragic event.
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 01/27/2010 02:50:34 PM
I bet that was hot!! great action shot!
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 01/27/2010 06:08:14 AM
spectacular capture !!! dramatic 9
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 01/27/2010 12:36:53 AM
Great capture. Composition is good, but not great. I know it's easy to say but might have been impossible to do at the time, but had you got behind the firefighters, and had them as forground features, this might have rocked my world. What might have been possible would be to darken the dude in the reflectors in the background on the left... very distracting.

Now... please bear with me... I'm revisiting a little comment experiment I conducted in the 2009-03 Free Study... something like K10DGuy's comments, but with a twist... the twist being, the story will move from one photo to another within the challenge... also, I don't select just a few photos I start at the first and end on the last as determined by DPC random order assigned to me, with a single sentence for each photo... should be interesting... and you're photo is the 2nd in the series

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What the waves hadn't destroyed during the storm, were destroyed by the fires that followed.
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 01/26/2010 02:04:09 PM
you got pretty close, good shot.
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 01/26/2010 01:06:57 PM
I'll bet the fire dept would like this one.
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 01/25/2010 10:25:52 AM
Nice catch with those roaring flames.
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 01/25/2010 09:13:33 AM
wow, dramatic
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 01/24/2010 08:37:21 PM
excellent picture...to bad about your subject...exposure and colors are really good
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 01/24/2010 06:27:40 PM
awesome flame detail and interesting image
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 01/24/2010 05:37:51 PM
Not an image that holds much beauty for me but an interesting scene nonetheless.
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 01/24/2010 03:02:05 PM
great shot! it's no easy to see in action firefighters and you have captured the action in a very good manner... compliments!
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 01/24/2010 02:13:56 PM
Super journal shot and amazing work these guys do. Nicely captured
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 01/24/2010 11:40:01 AM
Wow. That's hot :)
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 01/23/2010 09:19:42 PM
Have you thought of becoming a photojournalist? Great capture!
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 01/23/2010 10:53:38 AM
Very good action shot, good exposure.
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 01/23/2010 01:46:58 AM
nice PJ shot.
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 01/22/2010 10:30:08 PM
You were at the action! Neat image.
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 01/22/2010 03:59:01 PM
Those guys are risking their life time and time again. Well captured.
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