The Big Picture (the Boston Globe) & In Focus (the Atlantic)

RamR · **Joined:** Thu Sep 28 2006 **Posts:** 1377

The Boston Globe online does a series of news stories in photos. The most recent "story" is on the forest fires in California. Terrible event caught brilliantly in photos.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... iforn.html

By the way, it's well worth looking at their archives.

barry · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2009, 19:32

some absolutely stunning photo's there, cheers for the link.

Finsimbo · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2009, 19:35

Amazing what fire can do

Shaggy365 · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2009, 20:36

Brilliant stuff. Particularly like the long-distance ones showing the smoke rising up over the city.

Pincher · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2009, 22:58

Great link - thanks.

I like the one of the clouds over the city - it is decidedly fore-shortened, but the clouds must be huge!

Picture 11 could be any late-summer bad-smog day though! :lol:

hancockjr · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2009, 23:05

I liked the last comment on the website:

Quote:

I was born in Los Angeles and have lived here all my life. This is not new It has happened many times in my lifetime. In the early '30s there were a large number of firefighters burned to a black crisp in the Griffith Park fire.
Bless those who protect us. Lets help them by demanding that the forrests be cleaned often of the fuel that makes these fires so bad.

Err - that fuel would be wood, I guess. Yes, clear the forests of wood, so they can be enjoyed without fire.

RamR · **Joined:** Thu Sep 28 2006 **Posts:** 1377

Pictures from the Australian Dust Storm...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... ralia.html

blahblah · **Posted:** 24 Sep 2009, 19:45

I normally prefer flood pictures, personally

Thought it was worth a bump....

RamR · **Joined:** Thu Sep 28 2006 **Posts:** 1377

blahblah wrote:

I normally prefer flood pictures, personally

Thought it was worth a bump....

Floods?

Here you go then.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/0 ... heast.html

Intended this thread as a place to bring attention to a variety of world events as seen through the lenses of some excellent photographers. Hence the occasional 'bumps'.

RamR · **Joined:** Thu Sep 28 2006 **Posts:** 1377

From the Atlantic a very interesting photo journal of the scrapping of a freight ship that had run aground.

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012 ... en/100231/

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