So apparently I missed my most recent (third? Am I on three?) DD --
Which makes me pretty happy, since this was one of my most favourite shoots to date (I have a print of this framed on my wall, and the photographer has a much bigger print that I want to steal from him), and one of the most intensive to set up -- we started at about 9 PM on the edge of the lake (the rocks are set up to break the waves coming in an minimize erosion in the area), and worked through until about 3 AM, when we drove our car back out of the now long-closed park, laden down with all of the propane canisters and people we'd used to get the shoot done.
All of the fire used in the photo is real, and set up by two trained professionals who work with propane and fire for a living, as well as for hobbies as artists who set up huge fire installations on a regular basis. Our photographer and assistant were also trained fire performers, so aside from one brief scare where a pocket of propane gave off a little "whoomph" of ignition when we lit one of the back-most crevices, everything ran wonderfully smoothly.
So in short, I would not recommend trying this at home. You will die.
There are outtakes somewhere, during the preliminary test photos (before we lit ALL the fire), where you can see the fire on one side of me, and the water from the lake splashing up on the other. Probably also video of it somewhere on the photographer's hard drive that will never be seen again.
Another question that was asked frequently in the comments as I went through them today, was how are there so many veins in the photo? The other model and I didn't paint them on (though we did do the rest of our own makeup and styling); the photo was actually taken with a converted Infra-Red Camera, and then colour-corrected later (as infra-red photographs in a strange, pseudo black and white) to the true colour of the fire once again.
So thanks again, DA! I swear, I'm working on updating more often. Just another couple weeks of school to go and then I'm free!