Boat Fire

I've been slacking, no posts in awhile. It's not that I haven't been shooting its just that I haven't focused on anything particular to shoot and I've been hoping I'll be in the right place at the right time to get something amazing. In my mind I was thinking that it would somehow be a landscape photo but to my surprise it came in the form of boat fire.

We came into the marina to dock the boat and get some gas when we saw smoke coming out of a docked boat. Not a good thing to see especially when the boat is right next to the gas dock. Soon enough the boat erupted in flames. The owner ended up jumping in the water and swimming the boat out of the marina, good thing he did. If he wouldn't have gotten the boat out of the marina the fireboat wouldn't have been able to put out the fire and chances are the 30 gallons of gas he just put in the boat would have exploded, things could have gone really bad. Moral of the story is always use your blower when starting a boat.

For these photos my photojournalistic side kicked in and I think I did a fairly good job of documenting the situation. I sent them out to the Spokesman to get published but it turns out the story didn't run in the paper. This situation kept me on my toes and once again reinforced that you should never go anywhere without a camera.

Here's the images:

It's summer and I've just been having fun and not really doing anything super productive and I think that plays through with the rest of the photos, its a different look and its nice to see but I'm feeling its time to get back down to business.

Images of the week: