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Published: 2016-08-08 18:55:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 229; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 0
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Description I'm really happy with how this one turned out. Looking at it makes me feel like I'm looking back on a past life through the fog of memory. And in a way it is; it was a beautiful day and rather enjoyable time to be spending in the mountains. But that's not the kind of feeling I'm talking about here. The feeling I get is more disconnected than that. It makes me feel as though I've passed from this world and I'm looking back on the things I did in my life.

It makes me wonder, what does it inspire in you? I know, I'm getting greedy. I like comments and don't get enough of them. Here, I'll start it off. I think it inspires what it does in me because I've always known that I'd die in fire, in fact that's what made me get into firefighting to begin with. When I was very young I had a dream that I died in fire and that was kind of the catalyst. If I was going to go down then I was going to go down facing my fate not running. So I became a firefighter and the rest is history. But everyone's life experiences are different so I want to know why this may speak to you even if it's nothing more than you simply just like the look of it.

Photograph taken:
‎July 18, ‎2016
Johnson County Wyoming
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Comments: 5

jdmann79 [2016-08-08 21:11:34 +0000 UTC]

This is all too familiar.  Awesome capture.  I love how you can't really make out the ground.  Very surreal.  

On another note, FireDog, I really wonder if we've crossed each other's paths.  You probably fight most of your fires out in the Bighorn Forest area, but do you ever fight any forest fires in the Black Hills area?  I'm part of Coyote 1 Strike Team, and I make it out that direction quite often.  Just curious.  Anyway, stay vigilant out there, brother.

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FireDog-Prints In reply to jdmann79 [2016-08-10 03:07:53 +0000 UTC]

Most of my fires are in the Bighorns but I do make it out on crews a few times a year. In fact I was on two separate incidents in SD last year, one of them being the Cold Brook Fire in April.

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jdmann79 In reply to FireDog-Prints [2016-08-10 15:32:58 +0000 UTC]

I was on the Cold Brook Fire as well.  Ha ha!  We probably have crossed each other's paths.  Small world.

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AlmightyDough [2016-08-08 19:03:24 +0000 UTC]

This looks awesome. I love snapping spontaneous photos of my crew as well. I love looking back on them and reminiscing what I was thinking at that fire or what jokes we would tell each other on the hike up. Also, this picture looks like one I would take around here in Kentucky even though terrains are usually wildly different so that is interesting.

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FireDog-Prints In reply to AlmightyDough [2016-08-10 03:28:26 +0000 UTC]

Sometimes those jokes are better off forgotten. lol But taking snapshots of my day is almost a mandatory for me anymore.

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