This was made a couple of months after the Carr Fire burned through our area. I was wandering about and had gone to the top of a small hill. The trail made that interesting line through the landscape and as I was framing up scenes, this woman came jogging along. I much prefer this version of all the photos I made up there that day because of the story it tells.
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Bonnie: Tells a tale indeed. I like the way the trail winds through the scene as the lone survivor that’s still functioning. The runner and her position on the trail is icing on a very fine cake. Nicely done. >=))>
Bonnie, you’ve told the story here very well, with the winding trail, the freshly burned landscape and the runner. She is perfectly placed. The starkness of the tree trunks is striking. The cloudy sky fits there rest of the scene very well.
A very nicely framed scene! The trail is such a nice line and even without it you have framed a very nice near-to-far scene. The viewer wants to climb that hill to see what lies beyond. The runner is a perfect touch to make a story within a story.
Knowing the tragedy that this fire wrought, and the horrible irresponsibility of how it started, makes a pain shoot through my heart.
Hi Bonnie,
This image definitely tells a story of the tragic wildfires you folks out west are having to deal with in this age of climate change. For me this is also a story of resilience with the runner not letting the wildfires stop her from her routine and the bit of greenery is a sign of hope as this devastated area is trying to heal itself. BTW, I love the way the trail snakes it’s way along the hillsides.
A very powerful visual. The bright trail against the stark burned landscape is great and having the woman in the frame also is perfect in telling this story.
Lots of people wrote to the elderly couple whose flat tire made the axle spark and start the fire. I’m not sure where I read that, but my recollection was that there was an outpouring of forgiveness. I still haven’t gotten there myself after 6 1/2 years. It was so unnecessary.
Yes. It was amazing how fast things regrew where there was water (the greenery is in a small draw).
Wow – that’s a significant addition to the story we heard – and guessed at the details. Some time after the fire we were in Redding taking a magneto to a small aircraft accessory overhaul shop. We were talking about the destruction and asked the woman if the cause had been determined. She said it was a chain dragging on a boat trailer and we pictured an irresponsible beer-swilling redneck white trash blowing down the road with no concern about a dragging chain. Interesting to get a better picture. But I don’t think I would be there yet, either.
We are in the same state of un-forgiveness at the huge northern CA electric utility PG&E for the total irresponsibility of years of untended substandard equipment, and ignoring the threat of vicious dry Diablo Winds, for more fires than we can even recall offhand, but including “our” Tubbs Fire. Over 5000 homes destroyed and 21 people killed between our place and town. And it only stopped because the wind died down at 3 am, otherwise it would have burned through northern Santa Rosa and another 20 miles to the coast, through several small towns. But within a few years it was dwarfed by even worse ones, yours included, and the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise and killed 85 people!
And now there is Southern CA Edison or whatever it is called, not de-energizing lines with ancient neglected equipment in the face of forecasts of 80-mph winds in a bone-dry climate!!! Somebody needs to be hanged in the town square.
