Name:	Charlie Geilfuss
Title:	Remember the CFD 9.
Gear Used:	Olympus E-500 with ZD 14-45 lens.
Diaphragm/Shutter speed:	Unrecorded.
Film:	CF card
Technical Information:	Shot at 14mm (28mm full frame equivalent) on Aperture priority at around f11 or so to get full depth of field.
Subject Information:	On June 18th nine local firefighters were killed in an explosive back draft while fighting a fire at a furniture warehouse/store. One employee had been rescued from a workroom where he had been trapped. A memorial service held four days later was attended by thousands of local people and over a thousand firefighters from across the country. During that time period a spontaneous memorial grew at the site of the fire. I spent an hour photographing the site paying special attention to the personal items left by visitors. This was my favorite.
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Comment left by: Olaf Greve (no e-mail specified)

A moving story behind this one. One could argue that the background is perhaps not what one expects from a still life, and then one reads the text on the sign, and notices that it's a crucial part of the composition...

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