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2007 Banff Mountain Photography Competition
Best Photo — Mountain Environment

Marc Piscotty: Iron Mountain Fire

“A slurry bomber drops fire-retardant across a hillside during the Iron Mountain Fire near Canon City, Colorado, on June 3, 2002. The fire would rage on for a week, burn almost 4500 acres of forest and threaten more than 100 homes. The 2002 fire season was only a prelude to the following year, which would go down on record as the worst fire season in Colorado history. ”

Marc Piscotty was a staff photographer at the Rocky Mountain News (in Denver, Colorado) from April 1999 until leaving the newspaper in March 2007 to pursue a freelance editorial- and commercial-photography career. Previously, he worked for the Albuquerque Tribune (New Mexico) after graduating from Western Kentucky University. Marc was an integral part of the photo staff at the Rocky Mountain News which won Pulitzer Prizes in Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Columbine High School tragedy (2000) and the 2003 Colorado wildfires. He was also a finalist in the 2001 Pulitzer Prize Feature Photography category for the year he spent chronicling high-school life in the wake of the Columbine tragedy. In addition to numerous professional state-wide and national awards, Marc was the winner of the William Randolph Hearst Collegiate Photojournalism Championship as a junior at Western Kentucky University.

www.marcpiscotty.com

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