Images of resilience in the Upper Murray fires will be carried throughout 2021 in the form of a charity calendar.
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Since 2017, members of the Bethanga, Talgarno and Granya CFA brigades have come together for photoshoots.
But after everything that happened in the 2019-2020 fire season, the Berringa Firies group decided to take a different approach.
A photo competition was held to gather content for the calendar, attracting more than 50 entries.
Twelve were chosen, including captures of a tent city at Tallangatta, hay-runners, a still-attached power pole with the middle timber missing and green returning to scorched landscapes.
Bethanga member Joe Calvert, who does the graphic design for the calendar, said there were plans to display the photos that didn't make the final cut.
"We didn't want people staring at some of the more full-on ones month after month," he said.
"We wanted to highlight the beauty of the region as well, and how everybody helped, from supplies and tool packs to people just checking in on others."
The resource is dedicated to all responding services like police and the ADF and general community members who "amidst the fear and disruption" came to help.
It is usually sponsored by businesses, but in recognition of the year being tough, the brigades successfully sought a Towong Council community recovery grant.
Pre-orders were taken at the start of December at the Peninsula Seasonal Markets, a new event created from community recovery meetings.
Bethanga member Mel Naismith said the calendar had brought brigades closer together and proceeds had gone to equipment.
"We do a lot more joint barbecues together; it's really fostered community relationships," she said.
"We've now got a joint junior brigade.
"We haven't got as many photos this year, but it's more about shining the light on the fact there's so many different roles involved.
"There's so much support that has to happen to allow Ken [Star] to go to a fire.
"It's a big, collaborative effort as opposed to just the person on the fireground."
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Mr Star, who put in hundreds of hours in the Upper Murray fires as the Granya brigade captain, said the calendar was a recognition of what the entire community had been through.
"Everyone says 'The firies are heroes'," he said.
"We're not the heroes, the heroes are the ones who we left behind, that have been up there for 12 months on their own.
"People need to get up to those towns and support them."
