In November 2016, wildfires broke out near Great Smoky Mountains National Park and devastated the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, claiming 14 lives and over 2,000 homes and businesses. Nashville-based photographer Jeremy Cowart recently decided to use his camera to help bring healing and awareness to the area’s victims. For his project Voices of Gatlinburg, Cowart […]
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“I shouldn’t be here. ” That’s all I could think as I brought my camera to my eye to frame a shot overlooking the massive expanse of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. I was in a Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter, the door removed at my request. petapixel.com »
2020-05-05 23:19
In these 19 aerial photos, I attempted to capture how the city is responding to COVID-19 and how businesses are being affected. boredpanda.com »
2020-04-06 17:25
Award-winning German photographer Tom Hegen recently took to the skies above The Netherlands at night and capturing striking photos of massive greenhouses illuminated in the landscapes below. The newly-published work is titled “The Greenhouse Series. petapixel.com »
2020-01-30 20:02
Forget those dinky HD “cameras” attached to tiny quadcopter “drones,” if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy. petapixel.com »
2016-11-03 01:45
While living in Hanoi, Vietnam, photographer Loes Heerink became fascinated by the city’s street vendors and the mobile art they created atop their bicycles every single day. So she set out to capture this beauty in an interesting, maybe even unique way. petapixel.com »
2016-10-28 23:20
A lo-fi picture taken by a firefighter on August 6, 2000, on a Kodak DC280 in Montana is considered to be one of the most famous wildfire photographs ever taken. [Read More]
Rachael Zimmerman, a photographer in Lahaina, Hawaii, woke in the early morning hours the day the fires hit, awakened by the noise from the high winds. In a groggy haze, she fixes the screen windows flying off her condo, but when she looks out the window, she can see some flames in the distance.
The University of California San Diego has launched a new cutting-edge system made up of more than 1,000 cameras positioned across the state designed to prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfires and other natural hazards. [Read More]
"We don't take enough time to really appreciate a good photograph," says San Fernando Valley native Brandon Taylor about the result of the barrage of photos we get inundated with daily. Nearly losing his own home in a wildfire some years ago made him take a closer look at their effects on the surroundings and how they affect people's lives.
“Wildfires are equally terrifying and fascinating,” the California photographer Liam Searson tells me. “Especially at night, when the daylight fades, seeing the landscape erupt in a glowing orange is a pretty unforgettable experience.
These 15 photographers have been on the frontlines of wildfires, documenting them and sharing the stories of the fires with the world. The post Extraordinary photos of wildfires appeared first on 500px.
The weather is going crazy in Colorado. Locals are puzzled over what an unusual 48 hours they had this week: they went from scorching heat to snow!