Hi Mike On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:33:09 -0500, "Beaker" <[email protected]> said: > It's a striking photo- and it adds quite a bit knowing it is smoke, > rather than > odd clouds. > > How is the drought situation? I imagine it was a major factor in the > fires. > Some years, it's either too much or too little. > > Stay Safe, > Mike >
Thanks. I'm in Sydney - a long way from the current problems in Queensland and Victoria. Australia is a land of extremes. In the south, drought has been an issue for quite a few years and was definitely a factor in the extreme bushfires in Victoria. Some parts of Victoria and western New South Wales are in their 7th year of drought. On the other hand, northern Queensland is experiencing its worst flooding in decades. It seems so bizarre to have flooding and fires occurring at the same time in different parts of the country. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > 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 > -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- 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.
