Smokie Moon

A simple title for a photo taken this evening where the sky is full of smoke from the Terrace Mountain Fire.

Terrance Mtn. Fire flares up again

The picture should speak it self. We could certainly see increasing smoke as we drove home from Kelowna today.

Terrace Mountain Fire

The Terrace Mountain Fire near Fintry continues to grow. Here is a quote from castatnet.net:

The Ministry of Forests Incident Commander expects the Terrace Mountain Fire to continue to grow. Tim Ewart says the fire, currently estimated at about 2,000 hectares, is burning out of control. The fire grew by about 700 hectares Wednesday and Ewart says with ideal conditions and ideal fuel supplies, the fire has the potential to move 30 metres per minute. "Worst case scenario on this fire right now is it could potentially could move 15 kilometres in a burning period," says Ewart.

In this posts are picture taken in Vernon on Wednesday July 22nd.

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Hazy Tuesday

We are feeling the effects of the forest fires in the area. The fire at Fintry fire is closest to us and the winds have changed over the last couple of days so the area is now engulfed in smoke. This morning we also have ashes in the air. I shot this shot clip at Kin Beach last night.



View a larger version here.

(Tech talk warning)

I shot the video as a bit of test after upgrading the firmware for my Canon 5D II. The latest firmware 1.1.0 upgrade allows for full manual control of aperture, shutter speeds and ISO settings when shooting videos. As a photographer this upgrade is crucial as it give much better control over the depth of field. The video is shot with two lenses, 85 1.2L II and 300 2.8L IS, and mostly at max aperture.

Fintry Forest Fire

I spotted the huge white cloud of smoke from the Fintry fire right from my deck. I headed out with the camera and came home with these shots. In the first shot look carefully for the parachuter.

More shot via the link.

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Kelowna Forest Fires

11.000 people have been evacuated in the Westbank area due to three forest fires raging in the area. So far 9 structures have burned down. While Vernon had lots of smoke yesterday from the fires it completely cleared today as the winds had changed this morning. The photo shown above is a view from Vernon looking south.

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