This photo was from http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2013/02/winter_weather.html or you can just click here. The person pictured in this photo is Fire Lieutenant Charley de Jesus. The photographer was John Gress.
I chose this photo because it is outrageous that this amount of ice could form on the walls of a building that contained a fire inside. The story that this photo portrays is how the Chicago Fire Department needed to fight not one element of nature, but two. This also shows the magnitude of nature compared to humans and how that one fire fighter is surrounded by a cloud of white. For people that look at this photo for the first time, it might be easy to miss the big cloud of smoke in the background, showing the real reason why the fire department needed to be there. One question that I had about this picture is about what the temperature must have been at the time. It would have needed to be in the negatives for ice to form not ten feet away from a scorching fire. Photos like this one can really tell a story and while we as humans have great ability, we can never have complete mastery over the power of nature.
