Australian wildfire photo strikes a chord with picture editors

One of the most terrifying scenes in a long time makes all the newspapers today, including the Guardian's front page. The burnt red shot of a grandmother and five children clinging to life under a jetty as they try to survive the encircling flames could be straight out of the pages of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. The Independent uses a set of four of them to dramatic effect. The photos were taken by their children's grandfather. The family survived without the loss of a single strand of a hair on a child's head, the father said. So that's a relief. But Monkey hopes that the grandfather, who had the foresight to take some snaps, has been justly rewarded for the publication of his photos across the world today.