Photo by: Simon Ellingworth.

I wasn’t sure what to look for today, so I went to the popular tags and I picked “red.” Didn’t know what to expect. There was a smorgasbord of images – including flowers, cars, and people – but this first really caught my eye. Like I mentioned before, fire is just so cool to watch and fun to photograph. This image does a great job of capturing it. The flames up top have a feeling of fluidness to them, and the glowing embers in the bottom of the frame give the picture some substance. Technically sound, and nice composition.

Photo by: Asde.

Found this in the recent uploads on Flickr. I’ve got a firepit in my backyard (which I think I need to go spend some time by soon), and fire’s a fickle thing. It’s captivating to just sit and watch as the flames flicker about. That’s why I picked out this picture. It’s a little tricky to do it right. If you jack up the shutter speed too high, there’s no movement in the flame. If you drop it down too much, it gets too blurry or the background gets burned in and the fire drops out as the subject of the picture. This picture is a good compromise – a bit of motion blur to emphasize the transient nation of fire, but a completely blacked out ambient that focuses the picture on the fire iteslf.