A 5+ alarm fire blazed through a strip mall in Rochester, NY's NE side, The fire was started in a Family Dollar store and quickly overtook the strip plaza which was home to many other retail stores. This photo is one of the many units on scene battling the blaze.
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Crop/straighten, black clipping, clarity, vibrance, temperature, blue saturation/luminance shift, Spot dust removal, Noise reduction
[Dec. 4th, 2009 12:28:05 PM]
This would have been my other choice:
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What a terrific and dynamic photo! Because the boom is hidden by the smoke, it looks like the bucket is suspended on the stream of water. Then you realize it's an illusion. Cool. Well composed, captured, presented. Among the best of the challenge.
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