{"id":16648,"date":"2015-09-12T11:08:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16648"},"modified":"2015-09-12T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T18:11:02","slug":"aftermath-forest-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=16648","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath (Forest Fire)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wood Lake Fire<\/a>
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I wanted to take some reference photographs with the intent of possibly doing a painting of the aftermath of a forest fire.\u00a0 With an unprecedented dry summer there have been numerous fires in British Columbia and one that was quite close to the Lower Mainland was the Wood Lake fire near Harrison.\u00a0 The fire consumed an estimated 1300\u00a0hectares and is suspected to have been human caused – as per BC wildfire .\u00a0 I accessed the location on my dirt bike\u00a0via the\u00a0\u00a0Sts’ailes (Harrison West)\u00a0 Forest service road after about a 20km ride from where I had parked at Grace Lake.\u00a0 While many trees were obviously burned it seemed like\u00a0half of what was consumed were the areas that had previously been clear-cut.\"_K3_8724\"<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

With all the undergrowth burned away you can see just how much detritus we throw out along the roadways.\u00a0 Even in what is a remote area beside the road is a litany of burned cans, bottles and random items.\u00a0 Additionally \u00a0nature starts all over again very quickly as the first plants to reemerge are bright green ferns that stand out against the ashes.<\/p>\n

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I was stopped from going further for a time as they were falling trees that could potentially fall onto the roadway
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They were recovering much of the wood in particular the valuably cedars.<\/p>\n

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Here is an image from the BC\u00a0wildfire service that shows just how much smoke this fire produced as it grew.<\/p>\n

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Regarding the 360 panorama after struggling to make the image public and viewable through Google I had to accept defeat and decided to host the image myself. Part of this is in consideration for whether I should get Ricoh’s new panoramic camera the Theta S<\/a> which can take a 360 degree panoramic with a single button press rather than the multiple minutes it took for me to take build this one on my phone.\u00a0 In\u00a0the pano\u00a0you can see both my motorbike and the Rolleiflex that I\u00a0was taking pictures with.\u00a0 These images though are from my Pentax K-3 DSLR the film pictures will have to wait for developing.
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