Not only do we have the terrible fires in South Australia and Victoria (with less serious ones in New South Wales), but we also have very severe flooding in north Queensland! Fortunately, the death toll from the flooding is very low, only, I think, two people - although, tragically, one of those was a five-year-old boy taken by a crocodile on his parent's tourism property.
The central part of the east coast is barely affected - we have our normal summer weather - blue skies, rain and sometimes thunder in the afternoons, and a not too unpleasant 30C (+/- each day). John in Brisbane -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Doug Sent: Sunday, 8 February 2009 11:29 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: PESO - Where There's Smoke... That's a telling image, Brian. Reminds me of the waterspout shot in downtown Miami a couple years back. A good number of out PDML family live in Oz. I hope none of you are affected by these fires. I'm reading this morning that they are reporting 854 dead. You guys stay safe. On Feb 7, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Hi all > > Bushfires are an unfortunate fact of life in much of southern > Australia > in summer and are causing havoc in many parts of Victoria as I write > (25+ dead, over 100 homes destroyed). Then there are the ongoing > floods > in much of Queensland..... > > Anyway, by coincidence I came across this image of one of the several > fires in 1994 that destroyed property in parts of suburban Sydney. > This > one was in the Royal National Park about 40 km to the south of the > centre of Sydney. I took the photo from my office building in > Sydney's > CBD. > > The original was on Kodak Ektar 100 (I really liked that film!) but > the > scan was pretty awful so I decided on a b&w conversion. I used Focus > Magic to try to get some sharpness into the foreground buildings and > then used mainly the red channel plus a bit of tonal adjustment here > and > there. > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/125130/Where_There039s_Smoke.html > > > Comments, as always, most welcome. > > > Cheers > > Brian -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
