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 06/08/2012 12:01:13 AM · #1
Post your outtakes from the Free Study 2012-05 challenge here.
 06/08/2012 12:58:04 AM · #2
A few outtakes from my entry...

First the inferno...

Then the garage collapses...

And all hell breaks loose...

KABOOM!!! ...and oh, crap– now I'm in serious danger...

All in a span of 10 minutes.

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 06/08/2012 01:32:33 AM · #3
Wow! I can't help but notice there are no fire fighters in your pix. Where on earth were they? Hosing your house down, I hope? Wow, what a deal!
 06/08/2012 01:37:02 AM · #4
Originally posted by pixelpig:
Wow! I can't help but notice there are no fire fighters in your pix. Where on earth were they? Hosing your house down, I hope? Wow, what a deal!


I think they were too busy trying to keep the crazy photographer at a safe distance. :P
 06/08/2012 01:42:49 AM · #5
Can't beat Shannon's outtakes! But here's the other one I seriously considered for this month:

06/08/2012 02:00:47 AM · #6
Originally posted by pixelpig:
Wow! I can't help but notice there are no fire fighters in your pix. Where on earth were they? Hosing your house down, I hope? Wow, what a deal!

Ah, you noticed that. I came through the woods from the back and there was nobody in sight, although I could see some water shooting over from fire hoses in front. I made my way around the back of the pool, and saw some people beyond the far side of the house, but I couldn't get over there due to the intense heat. One firefighter walked through the woods toward me, and less then a minute later the garage collapsed and the explosions began. We both dove for the ground, but we were out in the open with no cover and nobody else around. I crawled alongside the firefighter since he was in full gear (the only "shelter" available to me) as the flaming debris began falling on us. After the first few explosions, he literally got on top of me and we were pelted with embers and fireballs for what seemed like 15 minutes (it was probably less than half of that). Think fireworks "grand finale" without the control or the safe distance. When we were able to look up, he noticed that one of the fireballs had set the leaves behind us ablaze right at the edge of the woods, over a square yard in area and maybe two inches from my feet. I had no choice but to jump up and make a run for home while he tackled the brush fire with an extinguisher. The fireworks explosions continued unabated for at least an hour after that, and I certainly wasn't going back into it!

There was almost nothing left. Almost.



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 06/08/2012 02:18:43 AM · #7
Entry:


Outtake:
06/08/2012 11:36:42 AM · #8
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also add one other little note. With all those fire departments responding, there were sirens coming from all directions. I was home with my daughters and we knew that something bad was happening, but didn't know what or where. I figured it might be a serious car accident at the intersection below us. The girls were running around trying to figure out where the emergency was, but there were vehicles everywhere (and oddly enough, no smell of smoke). I had to pick up my son from soccer and as we walk into my office for the car keys, my eldest sees the fire right outside my window and exclaims, "OMG... HOW DID WE MISS THAT?!?!" Of course, I did what any photographer would do with years of DPC training. I told the kids to stay put, grabbed the camera and charged outside for pictures. Zig zagging quickly through the woods, I found a good angle, checked the dial for AV, popped off the lens cap and... no battery or memory card. Doh!
 06/08/2012 11:52:05 AM · #9
I should preface this post by saying I do not have nearly as interesting outtakes as Scalvert. I entered the shot I almost entered in the Ansel Adams challenge:


I was considering a few others from my week in Maine:
06/08/2012 09:18:25 PM · #10
Entry:

Other options:

Let me know if you think I made the right choice.
 06/08/2012 10:13:48 PM · #11
Originally posted by scalvert:
In the interest of full disclosure, I should also add one other little note. With all those fire departments responding, there were sirens coming from all directions. I was home with my daughters and we knew that something bad was happening, but didn't know what or where. I figured it might be a serious car accident at the intersection below us. The girls were running around trying to figure out where the emergency was, but there were vehicles everywhere (and oddly enough, no smell of smoke). I had to pick up my son from soccer and as we walk into my office for the car keys, my eldest sees the fire right outside my window and exclaims, "OMG... HOW DID WE MISS THAT?!?!" Of course, I did what any photographer would do with years of DPC training. I told the kids to stay put, grabbed the camera and charged outside for pictures. Zig zagging quickly through the woods, I found a good angle, checked the dial for AV, popped off the lens cap and... no battery or memory card. Doh!


I love a good story & this one is awesome. From the lone survivor pic, I'm guessing your neighbor was quite a pack rat. He'll have to start all over again, poor thing. I wonder if your pix made the newspaper/evening news. Get any video? The moral of the story is: Be Prepared. All the time. As you get older, running back into the house for little things like batteries & memory cards takes longer & longer. "D
 06/08/2012 11:30:33 PM · #12
Originally posted by pixelpig:
From the lone survivor pic, I'm guessing your neighbor was quite a pack rat. He'll have to start all over again, poor thing. I wonder if your pix made the newspaper/evening news. Get any video?

Yes to all three questions. Apparently they had a fortune in sports memorabilia and other collectibles– none of it insured. A pic like my first outtake was all over the local news (as was I), but the fire marshall asked me to hold off on sharing photos, so nobody got to see the "bigger" shots like my entry. I took one short video clip of the house burning, which was unremarkable except for investigation purposes since it shows that the house was totaled before the fireworks went off.
 06/09/2012 12:02:34 AM · #13
I was gonna enter this one, but a little bird told me ozmaster was entering the same subject, so I entered a shot of him and nickyb instead.

I thought about entering this one, , but PennyClick and I have sort of saturated the challenges with glassblowing shots lately :-)

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