Photo Essay, Photography
by William Ruben Helms

Photography: Canadian Wildfire Smoke 6/8/23

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Caption: Park City Estates from Lefrak City in a thick orange-grayish, Martian-like haze. This photo was taken around 3:00pm or so.
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Caption: A pinprick of sun over Queens Center Mall, Elmhurst, Queens.
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Caption: 14th Street and 6th Avenue, looking South. In normal conditions, you could see the World Trade Center/Freedom Center fairly clearly — although it’s about two miles or so from this spot. With the smoke and haze, you can faintly.
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Caption: Union Square West at around 17th Street, looking south. This photo was taken around 4:00pm, and the worst of the smoke and haze cleared up; but there’s still a gross, slightly orange haze.
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Caption: Elmhurst, Queens in a thick orange-grayish, Martian-like haze.

Massive wildfires in Québec turned the skies and the air into a filthy, orange gray Martian hellscape. Because of the conditions, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival‘s opening night at Prospect Park with Taj Mahal was understandably cancelled. (It’s since been rescheduled to Monday night. Hopefully, the conditions will remain agreeable.)

I had some prints I wanted to pick up at Adorama, so I went out into those weird conditions to take photos. Admittedly, I’m getting a bit tired of the near apocalyptic/apocalyptic events happening every so often. But sadly, I know these sort of things will happen with a disturbing frequently until we stop acting like assholes.

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