We've had a huge fire here on Dartmoor last night that's continued into today, but it seems just about under control now. Since I could see the red glow in the sky from the end of my driveway I went out and took a few shots. First I uploaded the best one to the local Tavistock Facebook page since quite a few folks were sharing their grainy mobile snaps there. Then I thought, what the heck, and uploaded it to the BBC. And I have to confess that I was quite pleased with myself when it appeared on their main news website.
So now today I'm stuck fighting off interview requests from TV, radio and whatnot who all want a breathless eyewitness account of the night's terrifying events. Except that it wasn't terrifying. I knew it was miles away from me and the glow was just bouncing off the clouds, so I just had a glass of wine or two and went to bed.
I'll be ignoring Facebook and email for the rest of the day, and I'm just glad that I've shut down all my other social media accounts recently. And my phone is ex-directory, so at least they can't bother me that way. Trust me though, folks, don't upload any slightly newsworthy snaps to the broadcast media if you don't want lots of eager hacks trying to get in touch afterwards.
Here's the photo in question, with the K-S1 and 18-55mm. (The photo might disappear briefly since the hosting site uses human editors to check uploads.)