Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by barbaraanne:
I like the angle of this shot, it looks as if the firemen are floating in mid-air, and the colours add to the drama.

Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by larryb52:
Wonderful

Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by Ja-9:
nice clear shot...great job

Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by justine:
Super capture. Really a reminder of how brave these guys are 24/7.

Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by Lutchenko:
great capture, I especially like the mist of water rising from the bottom left

Where There Is Smoke
by Digit3

Comment by Yo_Spiff:
I have a coworker who is a volunteer firefighter. He would like this.

Boston Building
by Digit3

Comment by tnun:
Something about this: first, the red doors, but also the wonderful paned windows above that echo them - and then you start seeing rectangles and squares all over. Finally your relief comes in decifering the letters on the smudged stone face concerning spirit, earth and renewal, and behold (ecce!) there is a young woman. (Let me wonder what the Paulist fathers are up to these days in the Holy Ghost Chapel).

Boston Building
by Digit3

Comment by Paul:
OK, I'm going through the Free Study submissions, purposefully finding those images I think are shot with a less conventional eye - this is one of those images! Thanks for offering something that isn't just DPC friendly eye-candy (though of course there's nothing wrong with eye-candy). I'll be picking one of these images for my Mu (most underrated) award:

Positives: I like this - I think it is the colouration that pulls me in and in that regard the doors are the stars of the show. I'm very much a fan of saturated reds in otherwise fairly subdued colourscapes and this one is no exception. I also like the writing - it adds a context that I would have been curious about. The walking figure is interesting - in one way she is almost irrelevant but try to imagine the picture without her and much of the interest would be gone; that's clever - the use of a small compositional element that doesn't dominate but is nonetheless essential to the image.

Critical stuff: Not too much, I wish you'd compensated for the lens distortion, though I appreciate that you might not have the software so I really mustn't hold that against you...... but I can't say the same for the non-vertical orientation of the doors - given they are the key compositional element, I feel that nothing less than truly vertical will do.

Overall: architecture with a human touch - the walking figure serving to remind us that the built environment is a lived environment. Very nice image.

Boston Building
by Digit3

Comment by Jutilda:
I like the duality of the doors and symmetry of the scene with the movement of the single pedestrian.

Reflections Of A Life
by Digit3

Comment by Digit3:
Thanks for all the great comments!