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by **insanefireman** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:05 pm

Hi, very happy to have stumbled across this forum. Only joined last night and have already learnt heaps. Some feed back on these pics please. Dont forget Im usually under a bit of stress at the time.
Thanks in advance
Grant

by **phillipb** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:09 pm

Welcome to the forum Insanefireman,
Wow! Your pictures sure tell the story, nice captures, hope ther was no fatalities.

by **sirhc55** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:12 pm

Welcome insanefireman - yep, your pics sure do tell a story not only about the seriousness of crashes and fire but also the dedication of firemen.

We have another member in the US - Atencati who is a fireman.

Keep em comin’

by **insanefireman** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:16 pm

Sorry, should have explained before. I will never put up an image where anyone has been injured at the incident. Therefore, four lucky people walked away from this aircraft crash at Griffith airport!
If you look closely, the aircraft is torn back level with the seats. The pilot and front passenger slid to a stop with their legs raised and protruding completely from the aircraft

by **gstark** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:21 pm

Grant, Welcome.

The richness of colours in 1 and 3 is wonderful, and a stark contrast to the monotone nature of #2, which, btw, is my favourite; that's a much more interesting shot to me because of the absence of colours, and it's also striking me that it's probably a much more difficult image to shoot because of the conditions under which it was taken.

My only criticism is that I would suggest posting smaller versions of the images for direct viewing. We need to be ever mindful of the wonderful state that telkstra maintains the internet in here, and that as a result, many punters don't have broadband access.

So ... low res images, maximum image size 800 pixels along the longest side, and everybody's happy.

Thanx for sharing.

by **Nnnnsic** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:34 pm

I agree with Dad on the above post... the 2nd one is my fav...

Welcome, btw.

by **insanefireman** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:55 pm

Thanks gstark,
I just went in and changed the sizes as per your suggestions. Hope that doesn't confuse anyone when they read your post.
Grant

by **jonnydee** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:12 pm

Welcome to the forum! Thanks for posting your shots, I really like the second one, very ghostly look. I'm amazed that the passengers walked away from the plane, really stretches the phrase, "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."

Jon

by **mudder** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:00 pm

Wow, the first and fourth are really chilling images... The one of the plane sent a shiver up my spine... Very powerful...

I"ve always had a very healthy respect for the people that perform emergency services like fireman, ambulence paramedics, SES etc... We'd be buggered without them and they get very little publicity and probably operate on shoe-string budgets...

Cheers,
Mudder

by **stubbsy** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:45 pm

Grant

Welcome to the forum.

I'm pretty much with the others. I think #2 is best especially because of the B & W so that was a good decision on your part. If you're thinking of doing more B & W in future have a look around the forums as there are a couple of different approaches to this that yield quite different results.

by **gstark** on Mon Feb 14, 2005 5:51 pm

Grant,

Thanx for resizing the images. I'm at home now, and have a chance to look at them through a decent monitor. To say that the one at work is crap is being very unkind.

To crap.

I know that your images are heat of the moment shots, but I'd love to see something like the second one from a different angle - say a crouched viewpoint.

I think something like that coud make a very powerful statement.