Last night I went back to the canal armed with my Nikon to take photos of the sun setting in the band of smoke. It didn't disappoint. The sun was a red ball setting behind the smoke. The fire has grown in size and people's homes are in danger. The smoke is blanketing the city …
Early Start to Fire Season
We all expected that this would be a bad fire season because of the lack of snow and moisture this winter. But when I came out of a movie yesterday and saw that black plumes of smoke rising to the west, it frightened me. These photos were taken with my iPhone and were taken from …
Day 68 – Sunset on a “Moonscape”
In 2003, a forest fire located on China Hat Road, about 3.5 miles southeast of Bend, burned approximately 3800 acres of the Deschutes National Forest. The area had once been covered in lodgepole pine, but the fire changed all of that. The area is slowly reforesting, but burned out trees still cover the area. Tonight …
