Flektogon 2.8/35/ MC Sonnar 135/3.5 -NSW Flood images

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

Just a few more images of the flood,there were lots of keen photographers out and about.

I was disappointed in some of these as I think the excitement of the event caused me just to blast away...some I attempted to frame what I thought were important interesting images.The light kept changing while I was taking these from dull overcast to bright light breaking through the clouds.

#1There is a pathway under there somewhere.

#2 The trees at the top left mark where the river should be.

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#5 I do not know where the parents were!...We told them to get out of the water as they were moving towards the edge where if they got swept away it would be unthinkable of what may have happened.

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#10 The blue X marks the spot where the 1st flood reached.... that happened two days before this flood.

#11 The actual river bed is usually at the end of these trees.

#12 Flood debris about to go under the bridge

#13 "Pop" out it comes on the other side!

pich900 · Expire: 2012-12-27

Oh, I understand now the colours of the water in your "snake" picture Embarassed

...That's quite dramatic pictures and water floods happens unfortunatly here in Europe also quite often few times a year.....

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

After years of drought we seem to be in the years of flood....this is still Summer/Autumn, not even winter yet and we have had this type of rainfall.I dread this coming Winter.... water plus cold arghhh.

marty · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 767 Location: Italy

Excellent reportage, Moira. Your pictures render perfectly the "feeling" of the unfortunate event. I happened to witness a big flood last October while I was visiting a friend, it made a disaster not far from her house. One of the most beautiful part of the Country had been severely (and probably irreversibly) devastated. The river which flows there grew so big that swept away a bridge.

Cheers, M.

mo · Expire: 2016-07-30

I live far enough away from the danger that it was more exciting than fearful.There was some major damage in certain areas, a whole road is now just a motorbike track the river reclaimed the road right up to the hillside! large amounts of farm fencing is just scrap iron.One house is good for just demolishing.
These are taken today looking from the middle of image #9 to where I took the above images

#1 The road base just peeled and lifted!

#2 The 2nd white road marker on the left is where the blue X is in the 1st set of images (nearest the light pole)

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#4 The middle of the intersection seen in the distance of images #9 and #10 where the people/cars are standing.

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#6 The grass covered fence...one of many in the area.

#7 The row of trees shown in 6,7,8 in the 1st set of images

I have some more images I will put up later taken today downstream from where I live,It is where 2 rivers meet and the flood covers the valley floor.

poilu · Expire: 2019-08-29

nice reportage, nature strong laws, scary to see those children so near the danger!