
Fire dancers on St. John, US Virgin Islands.
John's take: This photograph jumped out at me for many reasons. While it was a very close race for number one, this image won out because of the inclusion of all four elements. Technically, this photo also has the perfect light balance and exposure you not only see the schooner in the distance but also details in the fire. Furthermore, if you tilt the image sideways, you see a heart in the fire — it's an interactive photo!
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John Tlumacki has been a staff photographer at the Boston Globe since 1981. There's not much he hasn't covered, including three Winter Olympics, several Super Bowls, and the fall of the Berlin Wall, for which he was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. When on assignment shooting icebergs in the North Atlantic, he had the opportunity to fly an Air Force C-135. He crashed in a hot-air balloon race that took off from Foxborough when the basket hit the top of a tall pine tree off Interstate 95. He also took the last known photo of fugitive Whitey Bulger wearing a white Red Sox baseball cap. John is a graduate of Boston University, magna cum laude from the College of Communication. He resides on the South Shore with his wife, Debra.
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