Friday, March 21, 2008

Most Famous Wildfire Photograph Ever

Most Famous Wildfire Photograph Ever Taken!

Some consider this photo taken by a firefighter as the most beautiful photograph of a forest fire ever taken on a digital camera.

John McColgan, a BLM firefighter, took photos on August 6th, 2000 while fighting fires in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana. McColgan says he "just happened to be in the right place at the right time" with his Kodak DC280 digital camera. McColgan could not be found for days after the one of those pictures spread like wildfire on the Internet.

The elk and fire snapshot has fast become the most downloaded environmental photo on the Internet. One About Forestry Forum member writes that the shot was "of the Bitterroot fires, south of Darby and taken (the shot) from a bridge over the Bitterroot River."

Charles Westmoreland, Texas forestry consultant, suggests that the photo "will probably be more famous than the Yellowstone Lodge fire picture." I have to agree.

Here is the U.S. Forest Service story...

John McColgan's stunning photo of two elk cows in the East Fork of the Bitterroot

From USFS Fire News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2000 -- FAIRBANKS, ALASKA: For about a week now, there's been a medium-size manhunt under way across the West. The man everyone's been hunting for is John McColgan of Fairbanks.

McColgan hadn't done anything wrong, unless you count disappearing and not being easy to find. Dozens of people, from firefighters to web spooks to reporters, were hunting for the guy. McColgan was busy becoming a daddy, though, and not being very cooperative about being tracked down.

It all started with a fire, a camera, and a couple of cow elk. McColgan, a fire behavior analyst employed by the Alaska Fire Service, was working on the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana. It was Sunday, August 6, the day that several fires burned together near Sula into one 100,000-acre blaze. He was standing on a bridge over the East Fork of the Bitterroot River, and shot the photo with his Kodak DC280 digital camera.

Next thing he knew, the manhunt was on.

A jpg of the image was sent from one person to another person, and within about 24 hours the elk photo had world-wide-webbed its way across the West and wound up on the computer screens of dozens of people. Everyone wanted to know where it was taken and who took it.

"Best darned elk photo I've ever seen."
"Best darned fire photo I've ever seen."
"Best darned photo, period, I've ever seen."

fire elk

fire elk:


	John McColgan, the BLM firefighter who took this photo Aug. 6 during fires in the Bitterroot Valley, says he "just happened to be in the right place at the right time" with his digital camera. Photo by JOHN McCOLGAN/BLM Alaska Fire Service

mail delivery on good friday

mail delivery on good friday:

WHAT'S OPEN AND CLOSED
Good Friday

Advertiser Staff

City and state offices will be closed Friday in observance of Good Friday. It is not a federal holiday.

People's Open Markets: Closed.

Municipal golf courses, recreation centers, zoo and botanical gardens: Open.

Mail: Post offices open; regular residential and business mail delivery, and post office box collections.

Garbage: Regular Friday refuse collections.

Landfills/transfer stations: Open.

Libraries: Most closed, April 6 to 8. Information: www.librarieshawaii.org.

TheBus: State holiday schedule. (For route and schedule information, go to www.thebus.org.)

Handi-Vans: Regular operations.

These traffic and parking regulations will be in effect:

On-street parking will be free, except for meters on Kalakaua Avenue along Kapi'olani Park. Meters must be fed in municipal parking lots.

Tow-away zone parking: Parking will be permitted in the towaway zones that allow it on holidays.

Coning: No coning.

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hound dog lyrics

hound dog lyrics:
(words & music by jerry leiber - mike stoller)
You aint nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
You aint nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time.
Well, you aint never caught a rabbit
And you aint no friend of mine.

When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
When they said you was high classed,
Well, that was just a lie.
You aint never caught a rabbit
And you aint no friend of mine.

hard boiled eggs

hard boiled eggs:

How to Make Perfect Hard Boiled Eggs

I love hard boiled eggs. For years I ate one every morning until my doctor told me that you shouldn't eat the same food every single day. So now I eat them only a couple of times a week. Sometimes with a little salt, usually without. Used to be that people were scared of eating eggs because of the cholesterol in the egg yolks. Now research has found that eggs also raise the good cholesterol that bodies need. When it comes to boiling eggs, the biggest problem is that people can easily over-cook them, leading to a dark green color around the yolk, and a somewhat sulphuric taste. Here's a my method for cooking hard boiled eggs so that they don't get over-cooked:

1 First make sure that you are using eggs that are several days old. If this is Easter time, and everyone is buying their eggs at the last minute, buy your eggs 5 days in advance of boiling. (See the reference to using old eggs in Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking). Hard boiling farm fresh eggs will invariably lead to eggs that are difficult to peel. If you have boiled a batch that are difficult to peel, try putting them in the refrigerator for a few days; they should be easier to peel then.

2 Put the eggs in a single layer in a saucepan, covered by at least an inch of cold water. Starting with cold water and gently bringing the eggs to a boil will help keep them from cracking. Adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the water will help keep the egg whites from running out of any eggs that happen to crack while cooking, but some people find that the vinegar affects the taste. I don't have a problem with it and I usually add a little vinegar. Adding a half teaspoon of salt is thought to help both with the preventing of cracking and making the eggs easier to peel. Put the burner on high and bring the eggs to a boil. As soon as the water starts to boil, remove the pan from the heat for a few seconds.

3 Reduce the heat to low, return the pan to the burner. Let simmer for one minute. (Note I usually skip this step because I don't notice the eggs boiling until they've been boiling for at least a minute! Also, if you are using an electric stove with a coil element, you can just turn off the heat. There is enough residual heat in the coil to keep the eggs simmering for a minute.)

4 After a minute, remove the pan from the heat, cover, and let sit for 12 minutes. If you are doing a large batch of eggs, after 10 minutes you can check for doneness by sacrificing one egg, removing it with a slotted spoon, running it under cold water, and cutting it open. If it isn't done, cook the other eggs a minute or two longer. The eggs should be done perfectly at 10 minutes, but sometimes, depending on the shape of the pan, the size of the eggs, the number of eggs compared to the amount of water, and how cooked you like them, it can take a few minutes more. When you find the right time that works for you given your pan, the size of eggs you usually buy, the type of stove top you have, stick with it.

I also find that it is very hard to overcook eggs using this method. I can let the eggs sit, covered, for up to 15-20 minutes without the eggs getting overcooked.

5 Either remove the eggs with a slotted spoon and place them into a bowl of ice water (this is if you have a lot of eggs) OR strain out the water from the pan, fill the pan with cold water, strain again, fill again, until the eggs cool down a bit. Once cooled, strain the water from the eggs. Store the eggs in a covered container (eggs can release odors) in the refrigerator. They should be eaten within 5 days.

sebastian horsley

sebastian horsley:

he agony and the ecstasy

Artists suffer for their work, but few are prepared to go as far as Sebastian Horsley. Here, the 'Soho Kristos' talks to Jessica Berens about his crucifixion, self-publicity and winning over the doubting Thomases

Sunday May 26, 2002
The Observer

When the artist Sebastian Horsley was thrown out of St Martin's School of Art for forging a document to gain a grant, he didn't mind too much. He was afraid that an institution might 'normalise' him. As a painter he never wanted to paint things as they were, but the way he felt and sensed they were, and the only way to achieve this was to undergo experience. When he painted sharks in 1997, he went into the sea in a cage and looked at them face to teeth. So, when he decided to paint the crucifixion, he decided he needed to be crucified. In the Philippines to be exact. On the week of his 38th birthday. In August 2000. Jesus Christ Superstar.

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