wonderful shot.... well photographed.... these people work so hard to ensure our safety.... if they were actually involved in putting out the fire, I would have given you an additional point... good choice of B7W
I don't usually like comments or give them, but since candids are near and dear to my heart, I have decided to comment on every photo in this challenge.
Good focus. Great use of tones. The masks are a problem for me though. You can't see emotion through masks. Masks, glasses, and hats. A candid photographers nightmares, but full masks? Definately not good. I just want to rip them off so I can see and feel what they are thinking. It's a 4 vote from me for tones and focus.
Fun, but the composition and cropping doesn't feel thought through to me; if you're forced not to have their feet (and this is primarily about their clothes), then you might usefully have cropped closer all round, especially top of frame, at least to generate the feeling of real closeness - and you seem to have the detail here to allow that. They're nicely alien seeming though.