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Fire in the Sky

Postby jethro on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:45 am

Ive been a slacker lately and haven't posted much. I thought this was interesting. The smoke from the Blue Mountains fire on Sunday drifted my way around sunset. i can honestly say I haven't seen the sun so red!
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Postby Alpha_7 on Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:27 am

Very moody, I saw the sun like this was car pooling so couldn't ask to stop and take a few piccies, glad someone else did!
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Postby stubbsy on Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:59 am

Great image Jethro. The one good thing about bush fires is the eerie sunsets you can get with all those suspended particles in the air.
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:28 pm

Very well captured Jethro :)
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Postby adam on Mon Oct 30, 2006 12:50 pm

That looks amazing :)
When the smoke covers the sun, it's nice to take photographs, but I've never seen it so red. And I'm always tempted to look at the sun (it will probably burn my eyes out!)
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Postby Pa on Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:26 pm

well done jethro a great image.
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Postby mic on Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:09 pm

Brilliant shot Jethro,

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Postby Underload on Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:31 pm

That looks very cool...something I certainly haven't seen before in a colour like that!

Edited - the black lines at the top of the image, that extend around the top, is that a tree branch? Just curious :wink:
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Postby Critter on Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:51 pm

reminds me of the ash wednesday fires in the adelaide hills in 1983. Mt Barker was not a great place to live that year...
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Postby Steffen on Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:05 am

This is easily the most jaw-dropping image I've seen here in quite some time. Big kudos! If I had something to say then this would be PoW.

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Postby Nnnnsic on Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:07 am

Whoa. Brilliant stuff Jethro.
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Postby vikin70 on Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:50 pm

thats like the Omen.... or wait, that was a red moon...
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Postby sheepie on Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:57 pm

Critter wrote:reminds me of the ash wednesday fires in the adelaide hills in 1983. Mt Barker was not a great place to live that year...


hehe - reminds me of the same time, but in NZ! The sunsets then were awesome - amazing that something so far away had such an impact!
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Postby jethro on Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:35 pm

Thanks for all the comments guys. This was a challenging shot as most of the early shots left the sun white. I had to turn the camera inside out to get the result I was looking at. No PP work was done at all.
Im glad you all liked it.
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Postby stormygirl on Wed Nov 01, 2006 1:53 pm

Sensational Jethro, very moody and a fantastic colour with no PPing. Brilliant! :up:
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