Come on, how could a person not photograph this? Aside from the near perfect spread of light, what I really like about this is the way the centre of the cloudmass is bright and filled with defined structure.
It all looks a little too perfect.
human : artist
And here we go, the money shot.
On the right North Sydney, in the centre the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to the left the Opera House, and behind it, the city. Just to give you an idea of the amazing scale of this, and remember, it’s all smoke. The lighting was amazing too, that’s a pretty accurate image of the light gradient at the time.
On Xmas day in 2001 there were huge bushfires in Sydney’s outer western suburbs. As you can see in a later pic, the sky was solid smoke over my house. It was really eery. I’ve had worse. The first place I moved to had fires so close there were huge pieces of smouldering debris falling in the front yard.
But anyway on Xmas day I caught a ferry across the harbour to my mother’s place in the north east of Sydney. This was on the ferry trip over.