{"id":12769,"date":"2008-05-26T22:03:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/05\/fire-on-the-mountain-2.html"},"modified":"2008-05-26T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T22:03:33","slug":"fire_on_the_mountain_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/fire_on_the_mountain_2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire on the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">As you may have heard, for the last few days <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KJNX3pWYHcE&amp;eurl=http%3A\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;q=santa+cruz+fires&amp;btnG=Search+News\">large fires have been burning<\/a> in the Santa Cruz mountains overlooking Adobe HQ.&#160; Quite a few of our colleagues live in or over the hills, but fortunately no one on the Photoshop team has (as far as I know) had to evacuate.&#160; Bryan Hughes didn&#8217;t sleep well on Thursday night, I know, with the fire half a mile from his house (shoes on, cats in hand).<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">I mention it because on my way to an air show yesterday, I snaked through the mountains via some back roads and was surprised to see a very large and imposing Chinook helicopter barreling towards our car, on its way to reload water from the pond right behind me.&#160; I pulled over and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/chopperdrop\/\">popped off a few frames<\/a> that may be of interest to other aviation nerds.&#160; Included in the set is the swift, violent, helicopter-borne death of a white Jeep Cherokee.&#160; (Yeah, it <em>blowed up real goood!<\/em>)&#160; Plumes of smoke from the mountains are visible in a few of the shots. <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">&#160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0;margin-bottom: 0\">As for other fire-related photography, I honestly can&#8217;t compete with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/object\/article?o=5&amp;f=\/c\/a\/2008\/05\/26\/BAPG10TRA2.DTL\">things like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, for the last few days large fires have been burning in the Santa Cruz mountains overlooking Adobe HQ.&#160; Quite a few of our colleagues live in or over the hills, but fortunately no one on the Photoshop team has (as far as I know) had to evacuate.&#160; Bryan Hughes didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}