It’s worth it, I think, to have public parks, they make it a little easier to feel in harmony with nature. Maintaining a natural setting requires some work. Setting fire to a prairie seems counterintuitive, but it does actually help keep the land healthy and productive. This weekend there was a controlled burn at a nearby park, so I went to take some photos:
ISO 160 170mm f/5.6 1/640
It was a sunny morning, so I was able to set my ISO low and still have a high shutter speed. The image you see above is an HDR image. I bracketed the photo while I was shooting so that I could create an HDR image later in Photoshop. For this shoot I was using my 70-200mm lens; it allowed me to get great shots but not get in the way.
The images in the gallery below tell more of the story of the burn. I decided to not edit them at all, keeping them as close to what I saw for the viewer.
It was interesting to watch them work. This particular park of the park is beautiful when it is in bloom. The burn will help keep it that way.
Don’t you love it when interesting photography shoots just drop in your lap? Have you ever seen this type of work being done? What do you think of the HDR version? Feel free to leave a comment below.
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