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When I came home this morning…
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This morning, when I was coming home from work, I could see a rather large cloud of thick smoke from the street I usually take on the route home, at first I could see no fire but when I drove into the thick smoke I could feel a smell of burned plastic, I decided to drive towards the area where the smoke was coming from, being the first at the scene (and having left my mobile home phone charging at home the night before, as usual when you need it) I drove to the nearest shop and asked them to call the Gardai and the Fire Brigade, I then headed off towards the warehouse and took the camera off the boot of my car and started shooting, these were some of the shots I took.
When I arrived…
Fire Fighters Arriving…
Engaging the fire…
Making their way in…
Everything under control…PS: The good news is that this was a old and abandoned warehouse and no houses were near so there was no risk for human lifes.
PS2: I would like to leave a kind word of appreciation to all the firemen and in this case to the firemen of the small town of Portarlington that in less than 15 minutes were at the scene. Well done!
Great shots Rod. Documentary pictures in the true sense of the word. Love the first one…with the flames bursting through the window.
Well done.
Robbie
PeteTheBloke wrote:
Brill. Hope you’ve flogged ’em to all the local papers?
Emailing them as we speak!
Thanks for the comments guys!
Good work Rod! I was in a similar situation on Jan 1st, driving home from New Year celebrations, passed a campervan on fire on the road… a few cars gathered at a safe distance, everything seemed under control, but didn’t have the bottle to stop and take snaps. Felt kinda… wrong, yknow? Didn’t know what had happened or if people were involved/hurt etc. Abandoned warehouses are a different story I guess. Great pics anyway.
Take it easy,
David.Rodcunha wrote:
PeteTheBloke wrote:
Brill. Hope you’ve flogged ’em to all the local papers?
Emailing them as we speak!
Thanks for the comments guys!
… and we hope you get a quick response, plus a few quid for yer trouble.
Terrific shots.Rob.
davenewt wrote:
Good work Rod! I was in a similar situation on Jan 1st, driving home from New Year celebrations, passed a campervan on fire on the road… a few cars gathered at a safe distance, everything seemed under control, but didn’t have the bottle to stop and take snaps. Felt kinda… wrong, yknow? Didn’t know what had happened or if people were involved/hurt etc. Abandoned warehouses are a different story I guess. Great pics anyway.
Take it easy,
David.Thanks for the comments David. I totally understand your point in the “felt kinda wrong” though I had times that I thought like that, now I can see nothing wrong with telling a story and highlighting the good work of Fire Fighters, the reasons why I took these shots were these 2 but mostly to highlight the great work of the fire fighters that rushed to the scene.
Regards,
Rod
Rob wrote:
Rodcunha wrote:
PeteTheBloke wrote:
Brill. Hope you’ve flogged ’em to all the local papers?
Emailing them as we speak!
Thanks for the comments guys!
… and we hope you get a quick response, plus a few quid for yer trouble.
Terrific shots.Rob.
As it stands both photo editors of the 2 local papers i’ve forwarded the pictures to have been quite happy with them and said they will use some of them almost for sure.
Thanks for the comments,Regards,
Rod
Rodcunha wrote:
I totally understand your point in the “felt kinda wrong” though I had times that I thought like that, now I can see nothing wrong with telling a story and highlighting the good work of Fire Fighters, the reasons why I took these shots were these 2 but mostly to highlight the great work of the fire fighters that rushed to the scene.
Oh, absolutely. I wasn’t implying you were wrong to take them (just in case you thought that, wanted to clear it up!)
D.
davenewt wrote:
Rodcunha wrote:
I totally understand your point in the “felt kinda wrong” though I had times that I thought like that, now I can see nothing wrong with telling a story and highlighting the good work of Fire Fighters, the reasons why I took these shots were these 2 but mostly to highlight the great work of the fire fighters that rushed to the scene.
Oh, absolutely. I wasn’t implying you were wrong to take them (just in case you thought that, wanted to clear it up!)
D.
No not at all, it was just that I used to see the stories on a more negative side rather than the positive and used to refrain myself from approaching and shooting them, of course if there are victims try to leave them out of the shots and preserve their dignity. A few months ago as I was driving through the Athlone bypass there was a crash that was just after happenening, there were 2 injured people in the vehicle involved and although I had a camera in the car I didn’t even bother to take it out of the car, so I was just telling you that I totally understand your point in the “wrong” of shooting some scenes.
Regards,
Rod
Well done nice sequence. Fair play for having your camera to hand. Hope they get published for you. Maybe send a few to the fire service people , They do training days that make good photographic fodder , you might get an invite.
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