California Wildfire Smoke Caught on Timelapse

by steve casimiro on August 31, 2009 · 8 comments

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Beautiful sunsets the last few nights, days blazingly hot: Fire season came early to California this year. Much as I generally think nature should be allowed to take its course, this Station fire in Los Angeles has been a brutal one, with firefighters dead, homes destroyed, and more than 100,000 acres torched. Dan Blank found awesome beauty in it–check out his timelapse video, which compresses 40 minutes to 2.

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Kate TC September 1, 2009 at 05:12: Wow, that is completely beautiful and mesmerizing. Like watching a lava lamp. A really big, scary, lava lamp.
Beth Cocrhan September 1, 2009 at 07:21: Ditto–so powerful and so soft.

When downtown blew up this spring I just sat on a hill and starred at the smoke billows.

That is a lot of loss in LA– too many moms and dads…
BC
Dustin October 4, 2009 at 10:20: beautiful clip – what’s the music in there? its awesome
Liam October 5, 2009 at 06:03: With a Brian Eno soundtrack!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kenji November 3, 2009 at 06:53: I’m no meteorologist but I believe these fantastic moving images are of the cumulus clouds OVER the forest fire smoke (which is not white)… the fire creating its own weather overhead.