![]() “They were pulling what they could out of the garage-tools, family photos, a kid’s electric Barbie car-while a tanker dropped retardant on the burning hillside behind the house,” Palley recalls. ![]() Tasked with shooting a local brush fire, he witnessed first responders trying to save a burning house. Palley was first struck by the beauty of wildfire while interning at the Orange County Register in 2012. Palley works as a freelance fire photographer for the Forest Service, meaning he needs to have much of the same training and gear as the firefighters. He documented 45 major fires over five fire seasons, shooting them at night as their flames glowed against the night sky. That’s the subject of Terra Flamma: Wildfires at Night, an art project and book created by Stuart Palley, a freelance Forest Service fire photographer. They’re a natural part of the western ecosystem.
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