Bull Elk Battle picture by Lee Snipes

 

Special "Image of the Year"

Note... I am deviating on the normal "Image of the Month" picked from one of the regular
photographers on the Nature Gallery this time. The summer of 2000 has been a very long
hot summer, with temperatures well above normal and precipitation almost non-existent in
the western United States. This has resulted in what I call "the year of the fires!" Nature
is not always the beautiful "National Park" images that everyone seems to have
come to expect in photography. I want dedicate this really "fantastic true nature image"
to all the firefighters out there, that have given their all in fighting these forest and wild fires.

 

 

Summer of 2000... by John McColgan

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Dedicated to these men and women who have "given so much" in order
to preserve our natural resources!
... Lee Snipes aka Greyhawk

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Bitter Root River, Montana

Excerpt from NG Posting...  "John McColgan, a Fire Behavior Analyst, was standing on a bridge over the Bitter Root River, and took the photo with a digital camera. Since he was working as a firefighter, he will get no monetary benefits, as the picture is public property. John is from Fairbanks, Alaska."

.......Thank You John.......

 

I am rarely moved to write a letter to a website but the image by John McColgan  of the forest fire provokes such emotion that I felt compelled to write.  A truely  excellent image both in terms of nature and photojournalism.  Story telling at its peak.  Two elk gripped in a life and death struggle to survive a raging forest stand in water.  Silent.  Watchful of  man.   --- Chris Varner

 

 

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March 2000    April 2000    July-Aug 2000

 

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