8/10: Brush fire

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Originally posted by Tony Shepps
This was a brush fire in Washington State, and the amazing thing about this image, aside from the fact that it's pretty cool, is that the house in the picture was saved. I don't know how, but it was.

It may have been saved through the miracle of telephoto photography. Telephoto lenses squish everything together, and make distant objects look much larger. The fire may have been a long way from the house. It's a night shot, too, without much detail, and it's very hard to judge the relative position of objects in three-dimensional space.