Great photo, I shoot this type of thing all the time, the one thing I would had tried to get was the firefighter face. that would lend to this being an even greater photo. Keep up the good work.

The colors come out really great here. And the grayish fog builds the counterpart to the vivid colors of the fire. This is such a beautiful shot. I will spend 7 points. Congratulations!

Alex

Raymond, you were able to get some terrific colors with this image.  I was browsing PN and this just jumped out at me.  Had to stop and tell you what a great photo it is.  Thanks for sharing.    

Powerful image!  Good exposure, colors and composition.  Congrats!

Nice work Raymond! I like this type of actions.

Best regards Sadegh

very nice shot ! congrats

Hi Ray. This is a very good documentary shot with good details in highlights and shadows. Would have preferred to have the firefighter facing the camera, altough I admit sometimes you cannot have it all!! Excellent composition. Congratulations (6). PS I took your advice and attached an image with the cars removed on the shot you commented upon.  Tislijiet kugin!!!

Dear Raymond,

Nice seen and captured.Very good tones,light and taken.

Regards(Bobby).

Nicely captured Raymond. This is real life and the photo is a natural looking rendition of what you likely saw being there. The flames, fog and details very crisp.

Warm regards, Pamela

Keep in mind, while reading my comments, that I always rate and critique within the context of the category/genre to which a photo was submitted for feedback.  Since this photo appeared in the News/Journalism queue I'm critiquing it strictly within that context.

Pretty good.  Aesthetically more appealing than many photos of people putting out fires, but there isn't much tension in the scene.

While the puffs of smoke look lovely from the viewpoint of the typical viewer, I see something that raises a caution flag in terms of photojournalism - in the lower left corner I see a halo around the firefighter and some odd tonal separation in the smoke that indicates you may have gone beyond the amount of editing that's considered ethical for photojournalism.  There's also a faint vertical line down the center, crossing the stream from the fire extinguisher, indicating an overlay from another image was cloned in.  Nowadays standards for ethics in photojournalism are much tougher than when I was in school and working in newspapers (1980s).  The type of editing that was considered not only acceptable then but which was actually advocated in textbooks would now be considered unacceptable and possibly an ethical problem.

So, from that perspective, if I was an editor and planned to run this photo I'd ask for the original camera file, raw or JPEG, to compare with this version.  Having seen the "caution flag" area in the lower left corner I'd also want to know whether any smoke or flames were added elsewhere in the photo before running it.

It's a good photo, aesthetically, and might pass muster in the context of the documentary type project you're working on (At the Work Place).  But be aware of the distinctions between photojournalism and documentary photography.  And it's possible that some folks might also consider excessive editing to be unacceptable for documentary work as well.