A while ago I thought I might shoot some long shutter traffic shots and proceeded to a previously scouted location to set up. While on the street I noticed smoke on the horizon and knew it was out of place. Sure enough I could see orange reflections and billowing black smoke coming from my right so I pulled into a convenient parking lot and gazed down past some railway tracks. There sat a car in full blaze outside of a junkyard fence. I grabbed my camera and ran down past the tracks and began shooting as I approached the flames. Then I heard someone yelling at me and looked back to see a set of car lights beside my vehicle in the parking lot. Not knowing if it was the police I yelled back... "got a cell phone ? Call 911!" Which they acknowledged. Whew ! I had a perfectly working cell phone but since the scene didn't look dangerous I didn't want to waste precious time on the phone and miss out on the intensity of the moment !
The next day I dropped by shot what was left of the car and found an interesting ol' truck as well. Hot spot !
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