Marc,
My brother has sent some a few images he has taken of the bushfires over
looking Sydney and the harbour bridge. As you said the lighting is quite
freaky. It has to be seen to be believed... ok that storm is getting
worse... I'm outa here!!
Adam
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From: "Marc Lawrence" <mlawrence@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Xtreme photos
> > Brian Swale [mailto:bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> > In Australia, that land across the Tasman, bush fires rage -
> > sending smoke and sparks across wide areas.
>
> Someone I know on another photography list has filled gutters and
> bathtubs up in the Blue Mountains, and is trying to keep everything
> wet. After telling me all of the above (he's sent his family down
> into Sydney proper), he tells me he *has* kept one body and lens
> with him in case anything spectacular happens. Can't keep a good
> photog' down.
>
> FWIW, during these bushfires, in the city you have not required
> your 81? warming filters. No blue skies, covered by smoke
> haze but the sun filters through it and gives a rich orange
> light. Sunsets are quite freaky, but not necessarily photogenic
> as only the sun goes orange - immediately around it still seems
> to remain resolutely bushsmoke-grey. In the middle of the city you
> can see the haze between yourself and the other side of the
> street, and at this moment visibility is down to about 500 metres.
>
> I'm wanting some "high-key" (I think that's the term) black & white
> images of some scenes in the city, but am not getting a chance due
> to season's and work committments. I hope someone is, for both record
> and artistic reasons. I *do* have my OM1 and 50 1.4 with me, just
> in case an op' arises, though living in the city it's only smoke
> and the ash and occasional blackened leaf that are obvious affects.
>
> If this haze sticks around, tonights fireworks could me less (or
> more) than spectacular over the harbour. Me, I'm working, grrrrrr.
>
> Cheers
> Marc
> Sydney, Oz
>
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