Weather...

Canon 1Ds II with 100-400 f 4.5-5.6 lens @ 100mm

Weather, happens every day, in fact every minute of every day. For some it is nothing more than an inconvenience for others weather occurrences can be life threatening. As we here in South Eastern Australia enter Autumn, where days are gentle, warm, and generally pleasant, today we have a forecast of strong damaging winds, high fire danger, locally raised dust with a slim possibility of rain. Rain would be nice but it seems to have forgotten how to do that around these parts.

Today the outback photographer awoke to the sounds of strong winds buffeting trees around the yard, the air already filling with dust whipped up from the parched land and the promise of a very ordinary sort of day. On the bright side the only two shoots we have today are both in the studio and the sunrise this morning over the Murray River was simply stunning. The shot above grabbed as strengthening winds chopped up the surface of a normally smooth river, reflecting the sunrise and creating amazing patterns of light.