Dust Storm Sydney Australia 2009

by Leanne Seymour

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Dust Storm Sydney Australia 2009

Artist

Leanne Seymour

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Photograph - Photopainting

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This photograph was taken in Sydney Australia in September 2009 when we had a one off dust storm that blew over this city from the Australian inland desert. The whole of Sydney was affected with the orange visual affects as well as a visual affects that clouded many of the Sydney buildings and landmarks making visibility almost impossible at times. It was somewhat scary for those who had to commute outdoors; but for those like me who could stay indoors safely away from the affects of the alien outdoor atmospheric conditions it was somewhat exciting, unusual and different......something I personally had never experienced in my long life in this city. This photograph was taken from inside my unit from my lounge room area through the balcony windows. This photograph hasn't been digitally manipulated but rather the colouring outside the window is what was naturally there as a result of the dust storm. The only digital adjustments I made was to edit image to improve focus/exposure and to crop the image slightly. Naturally after the storm was over which lasted most of the day, we all had a big clean up job to do outside to get rid of the red dust.

Here is the way Wikipedia described this one off freak of nature event:

["The 2009 Australian dust storm, also known as the Eastern Australian dust storm, was a dust storm that swept across the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland from 22 to 24 September. The capital, Canberra, experienced the dust storm on 22 September,[1][2] and on 23 September the storm reached Sydney and Brisbane. Some of the thousands of tons of dirt and soil lifted in the dust storm were dumped in Sydney Harbour and the Tasman Sea.

On 23 September, the dust plume measured more than 500 kilometres (310 mi) in width and 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in length and covered dozens of towns and cities in two states.[3] By 24 September, analysis using MODIS at NASA measured the distance from the northern edge at Cape York to the southern edge of the plume to be 3,450 km.[4] While the cloud was visible from space, on the ground the intense red-orange colour and drop in temperature drew comparisons with nuclear winter, Armageddon, and the planet Mars.[5][6][7]

The dust storm was described by the Bureau of Meteorology as a "pretty incredible event" that was the worst in the state of New South Wales in nearly 70 years.[5][6][8][9] The phenomenon was reported around the world. The Weather Channel's Richard Whitaker said: "This is unprecedented. We are seeing earth, wind and fire together"."]

Artist: Leanne Seymour

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February 10th, 2018

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