my friend, mary and i were finishing dinner downtown, when this scene started to unfold. engines and ladders and mervs (mobile emergency recon vehicles)--it was a big fire.
we didn't see it, but could see the firemen with flashlights in one of the apartments on the top floor.
and we could smell the burn.
i feel strange saying this, but i like some of these shots, especially the one of the girl with the fur-lined hood on the bicycle and the one of the red bike (lonely in the right frame), mostly for the drama of all the artificial lights against the cloudy sky. they are not crystal clear--i probably needed a faster lens or a tripod for that. but i think they work somehow.
hopefully no one was hurt.
shot with the canon g10
december 22, 2010
all photos © anita aguilar
