Well, I was always told never to play with fire, you will get burned! After all the talk about cold weather I needed to warm up. Not to mention being camped out for 2 hours in the cold waiting for a deer to walk by (armed with just a camera). Never did. I went into the house and started a fire. I had seen something somewhere about photographing fire so I thought I would take a shot at it! (pun intended!) These are the best of about 60 shots. I am looking for opinions and critiques. Hold nothing back, I can take it. This image is the faster exposure of the two. Magick Michael aka zhounder

This one is the slower exposure. In the first I got the nice purple flame. In this one I got great spark trails. Your thoughts? Magick Michael aka zhounder

A real challenge to get what you visualize. I wonder if several exposures Layered could give same effect that we see. Considering the dynamic range of light. Bill

Oh ya, I like photographing fire. It's so much fun because the fire is never the same. I took almost 50 pictures one night. It's wierd how the red glowing coals turn purple when overexposed(same thing happened with me).

I like the first- almost looks real to me- I want to stare at it, hypnotized by the flames holds hands out to warm them

Taking pictures of fire is really great fun. Actually, as much fun as finding a waterfall and experimenting with exposure times. Even the sloppy ones of the fire will yield interesting colors that can be "sucked out" and used in "weird" compositional thingies.