Drove by a little grassfire on Denver’s eastern edge today.  Somewhat surreal because the fire was burning inside of a retention dam through a bunch of dried cattails surrounding the shallow pools of water in the low points on the landscape.  Funny to photograph this stuff after working big wildfire for seven years; it’s hard not to armchair quarterback and, well, for a fire surrounded on all sides by roads and lush golf greens, this thing probably could have been left to burn itself out and the resulting black spot on the landscape would have been exactly the same size and shape as it ended up after all the attention it received.

Still, the one thing that I miss about the smoke from wildfire is how dreamlike it makes the landscape, how the light is diffused through it like a soft disco ball dappling everything in smooth brushstrokes.  It’s a secret project that I started shooting a few years back, something that I’d like to pick back up again, assignment permitting.  

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