Homecoming Bonfire.

I took a lot of photos at the Homecoming Bonfire. When this thing went up all of us photographers scattered like insects. All you heard for a while were shutters and scuffling feet in the dirt. (And the occasional "Get back behind the barricade".) At one point the flames were so intense students retreated quickly in fear.

Controlled Burn gave an amazing show before the event started and lit the bonfire with a flamethrower. This is just a sampling of what I got at the event. Please enjoy.

Independence Day.

This is about as normal as my blog is ever going to get, so soak up the normalcy while it lasts. Here is a set of photos taken at Sunset Station and some we did in front of the house. Hope you enjoy.

It's happened. The Alystra is gone.

The beloved Alystra burned down today. Local kids, photographers, vagrants, and explorers mourn this loss.

However, two girls are totally stoked.

(Now Clickable) Nuclear Holocaust.

So, I in my strange mind, saw the smoke from the fires in Reno and thought I'd make this:

The explosion is a copyrighted, image and therefore this isn't really all mine, but I thought it was pretty neat. I didn't even use Photoshop. I used my dumb person version of Photoshop called Picture It. Anyhow. I think it looks neat. Here is the original if anyone wondered what that looked like:

And onto my motivation for making such a photo. Because I (almost) never make art without a reason behind it. The reason here has a lot to do with showing how close to home violence can strike. We see the wars, bombings and disasters through a number of convenient rectangles. So much so that we begin to feel that these tragedies are confined to the indestructible barriers around these rectangles. What we aren't prepared for is that day when there isn't a rectangle keeping the panic, the fear, and the danger from our lives. And the images will be real and moving. They will be grand and we won't be able to click them away, or toss them into the wastebasket.

Wildfire sunset.

The fires in the area make the sunsets around Reno amazing. So I climbed on my roof.