Helo Operations -- Wildlands Firefighting

A few months back, I came up on a wildfire in central Wyoming. I've just got around to processing them.

Luckily I had two cameras along. I had a Nex 5n with my Tair 3 300mm F4.5 Preset mounted to it and my D600 with a 50mm F1.8G lens.

It was near sunset and the low light, with the very heavy smoke made for some somewhat difficult photography. The fully manual Tair 3 didn't make it any easier!

Hope you like them.

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I like the light in these. Think about how you could get these (what I call "Safety Shots") & then shoot some with some rotor blur.

wow, the backdrops are phenomenal. could use some blur, but I'd totally be happy with those, Great job!

Thanks guys.

Every time I photograph one of these wildfires I can't help but think how awesome it would be to be embedded into one of these wildland firefighting groups for a summer. I'd LOVE to make a photo book on the subject.

For now its only the outskirts for me though