Dust Storm Hits Sydney - Additional Material ;-)

Got a few extra pictures from the "famous" dust storm that hit Sydney last week. Before leaving for work I made it to the roof terrace and got a few extra shots of Coogee covered in red.

I teamed up with my Olympus and the Magna expecting to be able to take a few shots on my way to work - it was tempting to make a little detour to the Opera House, for once there would be a chance of making a picture different from the trillions of Sydney Opera House pictures already taking up memory in the cloud and on hard drives around the world - but I could not let the capacitors wait ;-) ... and instead of 1 of 10^12 it would still only be 1 of 10^3 - a simple google search will easily reveal that :-D


As can be seen the red color turned increasingly yellow as the sun rose and a bit of the magic fizzled out, left was just lots of dust. According to the news a large fraction of the Sydneysiders panicked and foolishly paid good money to have their cars cleaned - The Magna and I are obviously way to stingy for such stupidity, it will probably rain in one of coming months or we might even get another dust storm coming - so no need to waste money on such temporary beautification.

Red Dust Hits Sydney!

What a day! Sydney was hit by a red dust storm like never seen before .. in Sydney! - out in the outback they eat dust storm like the one that hit Sydney for breakfast :-) Still it got everyone talking including the media, for a thorough explanation of how, why, "is it dangerous"? and some impressive pictures go to the Sydney Morning Herald and hear and see their multimedia presentation of the event.
Waking up early morning I realized something was wrong even before opening my eyes, I could taste dust! .. I know, I am not a big fan of the vacuum cleaner, but I usually manage to clean the apartment before I start tasting it :-) Opening my eyes confirmed that not everything was as usual - everything outside was red! Obviously thinking of my devoted followers on the blog I grabbed the camera and started shooting so also you can enjoy the looks of a very red early morning in Coogee.

For those who does not know the usual view from my windows, I have included a picture taken 11 hours later in the afternoon after I came home from work.

A bit of excitement on a Wednesday morning :-) Normally I would not change the order of events that goes on the blog, but those lizard shots from down at Boat Harbour will have to wait till next blog entry - sorry about that to those of you that fancy lizards.

By the way, the pictures above are straight from the camera, shot as jpg, I have not(!) pumped the red color ... it was not needed ;-)