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Peter Lowenstein
Mutare, Zimbabwe
08/19/2022
05:50 pm

Equipment Details:

Tripod-mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS40 in MP4 HD30P video mode.

Post-processing Details:

Frame capture extracted from video.

Image Details:

Runaway Hill Fire, Mutare.
On Friday 19th August a spectacular dry season grass fire in hills to the south of Mutare spread faster than the prevailing wind and consumed everything in its path. No creature downwind of the rapidly spreading bird-shaped burning area in this video frame capture would have been able to escape.