orange morning of the apocalypse with seaview.....

lol…yes indeed… honestly the most extraordinary things just are too wacky to fake most times… the colour of this dust storm this morning was just unbelievable…. and all these shots I’m posting are straight from the camera…. no tweaking at all… I mean what could you do to it to make it stranger?

hi Robert… this is so weird… the wind is building up to some sort of matching afternoon event at the moment as well… this is shaping up to be the sort of day where you just stay indoors and hope for the best…. there is dust in my mouth and nose and on all the window sills… and I think I could possibly grow something on the bonnet of my car it’s so coated with dust….. very very freaky…...

hi Hans and thanks… it was a very fine show for those with cameras but I’m thinking that parents of kids with asthma and suchlike would be really worried by now…. it’s horrible having this dust on your skin and up your nose etc

it’s pretty exciting for a little while while your taking photo’s but it gets pretty horrible quite fast to be honest… it’s icky and there is damned dust everywhere…. I want it to all go back to Broken Hill or SA now…. thanks all the same but no thanks….

kind of…. the dust storm proper has gone of to Qld but it dropped some much dust every where and now there are some serious gale force winds doing there damnest to get going so all the dropped dust is just swirling around and around… the weather is remarkably peculiar today that is for sure…. and also…. the dust doesn’t taste very nice…..icky and sticky… lucky I got out early and took some pretty pictures or I really would be cranky with it…. ( subtext: that means I’m not currently going to wage war on Broken Hill but if they don’t come and get all there damned dust back I may revise that statement…..:) )

indeed I reckon so too… I mean there has to be about 5 kilo’s of it just on my car…..!...... and they can come by and collect any old time they like….. :)

thanks Linda and the dust was really tedious but I’m really pleased that I got some shots of it while it was all happening…..:)

hi there Deslmages….. and I know what you mean… I woke just after six and my bedroom was just all filled with bright pink light like something out of a scifi movie or something and I just got up and grabbed the camera and headed for the beach where I was lucky enough to be able to get off a series of shots of this…. and your right… on the one hand it is really beautiful and mysterious….. but…. big but…. it’s really bizarre and scary….. the light was just so weird…. and the dust was so …. well so dusty…....:)

you know when serindipedous things like this happen….. you know a homepage feature on a shot taken at dawn this morning…. I’m always really stoked that I dragged my lazy butt out of bed at sparrows fart and grabbed the camera and took it out into the morning…...I’m stoked…..:)

thanks darlin…. see it does pay to drag your bones out of bed at sparrows fart to take photo’s on a weird and wild and wonderful morning…....I’m stoked on the HP…..:)

hi rodeorose and thanks …... it’s been such a strange and mysterious natural event that it’s great to see a whole homepage devoted to it…. :)

thanks heaps shanghaiwu…. it’s such a treat to be on the homepage…..:)

thanks Horndog….. luck has it’s part to play with shots like this…..but I’m happy …...:)

hi there CapturedByKylie and thanks heaps… that is so nice of you….. and the homepage looks really cool….all those different shades of red and orange through to pink….. and what an amazing and weird event hey…..... thanks again and well done to you too for your feature…..:)

hi and yes….it was the bright pink light coming in my window around 6 that woke me…. by the time I piddled about getting some clothes on and such like and got down to the beach it had already changed to orange and then it went beige sort of…. very strange but I enjoyed it for sure…. there could be another storm if these winds don’t die down…. there are little gust here currently that are rattling the roof…... yoiks…....

hi Tania… and yes indeed…. it was one of those totally random events that just have to make you remember that when it’s all said and done….we’re only here on sufferance….mother nature has the whip hand always….scary really…..

hi flokot and thanks heaps for your comment…. ‘preciate it…...:)

my goodness you get around…. such a long trip…. and you may have been just on the edge of it….. it was so spooky… just need a soundtrack as I walked down to the beach….. and maybe a few birds falling dead from the sky…..you know the deal…...:)

actually most of the headlands ones are from where we went and almost saw the sun rise…..:)

hi jemima and thanks heaps…. it was a really surreal experience being out in this…. it wasn’t just the sky…. it was everywhere… quite hard to describe actually….. glad you like it though…..:”)

hello Pauline and thanks…. the colours in the sky and the atmosphere where just something else interely…...an amazing natural event for sure…I can’t imagine I’ll see anything quite like this too often…....:)

hi Joanne and thanks… and it’s wonderful to be on the homepage…. cheers

lol….yes indeed the damned dust is just every where… the car is just covered in thick red dust that is all streaky …. oh well it was pretty while it lasted….. :)

hello Themis and thanks … although it wasn’t really a storm as such it was more like waking up inside a big orange cloud…. the light was incredible and the air was really thick and almost viscous…. but no wind then and it was quite warm too…. the vicious winds came a bit later…. it was the strangest thing….. a dust storm but not stormy…..anyway thanks…...:)

hello annadavies…. and you are totally right….! it’s just exactly how I saw it…. you can have my eyes for a second or so….....thanks…..:)

hello PPPhotoArt and thanks…. it was something else for sure…..:)

hi Helen…. yes it’s still a thrill to get a homepage even after all this time…. silly but true…. and the dust storm is a big story here… and all over by the sound of it…. it’s dramatic in a quiet and odd sort of way… mother nature just reminding us of her powers….. we have a big fragile land here andwhen arge amounts of it blow away to sea … well it’s not good…. but the feature is…...:)

hi Jan… and thanks… it’s the strangest thing but it wasn’t wild when I went out in it… it was more like being in a warm soft bath of orange talcum powder… warm and dry and just very very odd… and vast too…. so much dust blew over the country….. I was lucky to get these and I’m really glad I got up and went down to the beach…....thanks

thanks very much deborah…. it’s a beautiful place to shoot from so it was hard to go wrong…..:)

thanks so much hsien-ku….. I feel so lucky to have been able to go out and take these photo’s and to be able to share them is even better…... :)

hi Teacup and thanks… and yesterday was on of those days you just never forget…... :)

Hi Jo Ann Craig…. and thanks… it’s been quite exciting in some odd way… and I had fun taking the photo’s…...:)

thanks Chris… I was pretty lucky to get them actually…..:)

hi Zefira and thanks heaps… it was a weird thing hey…. glad you like these shots….. :)

lol and yes you are right… it was a great opportunity to run out into the orangeness and take some shots…..glad you like them…..:)

hi Anna and thanks…. and yes the two dust storm home pages have looked just wonderful…..:)

hello frissons100 and thanks heaps… I was in the right place at the right time… a bit of luck involved as well…. :)

hiya Clare and thanks hey…. see what happens when you move away… it all goes orange…..:)

hi there Jan and thanks heaps… it was a very strange and oddly beautiful event… I don’t expect to experience anything like that again….. glad you like these images though

hello Rochelle and thanks heaps…. it was a most unusual occurance…..the orange morning that is…...:)

thanks heaps…..:)

hi manumint and thanks… I have never seen any thing like this before either… it was a very very strange event… the whole world went totally orange…. very weird and a tiny bit scary to be honest….. but a good opportunity to take some interesting photo’s….:)