Burned Out
Sitting beside yesterday’s dump truck was an ambulance that had been converted into a mobile garage service vehicle. At sometime in it’s life it apparently caught fire and was a complete loss. When I saw this vehicle and the state that it was in I honestly had shivers imagining all of the textures that could be coaxed from it battered surface. Of course the thought that someone could have been hurt or killed in the fire did cross my mind but a quick inspection revealed no sign of a force rescue or recovery entry.
The side seen in this shot is in better shape than the other side, which will be tomorrow’s post, but it offers a little more ‘blackening’ left by the fire. At the time I took the brackets for these images, the wind was beginning to pick so the foreground grass and trees in the background show signs of blurring and ghosting. I’m not really that pleased with the effects that the wind had on the brackets but it does add some sense of time passing around the vehicles that have been left behind.
The brackets were post processed in Lightroom 3.3 and tone mapped in Photomatix 4.
Camera settings: Canon 60D, 18-135mm @ 42mm, ISO200, f/8, 9-brackets with 0EV @ 1/160sec
Love this one Curt. What a very cool mess it is.
Thanks, Tom! That was my thought exactly!
Wind… drives me bananas with HDR photos. Great find, especially knowing there was no evidence that anyone was actually in there when it was burned out.
Thanks, Kristi! I’ll definitely try to get back to this place soon!