Matthew Stewart | Photographer
Feel The Quiet River Rage (Brisbane Flood Peak @ Kangaroo Point - January 13th 2011)
Gear: Canon 5D Mk II| Canon 17-40
Settings: ISO 100 | f/11 | 80.0 | 20mm
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Dear Flickr Friends.
Brisbane, Ipswich and the Lockyer Valley including Toowoomba have been hit very, very hard this week with the worst floods since 1974.
The flood peak today was expected to be just below the flood peak of 5.2 metres, but was revised down to 4.45 metres at the peak today @ 4am. I ventured to Kangaroo Point very early to capture this photograph of the event. Those statues in the water are a fair way back from the water edge and the sound of the river roaring was just something out of a movie.
Fortunately, I've been very very lucky and so have my family that we've not been effected by the floods.
It's extremely surreal being in a high and dry part of Brisbane (Carina) whereas only a few kilometres away each way people's homes and business have been lost and ruined.
Seeing the devastation particularly along the river of Brisbane, where pontoons, the Brisbane River Walk and many boats have floated out into Moreton Bay was pure awe yet terribly shocking. Seeing places like Suncorp Stadium inundated and the areas around Rocklea and West End and countless others completely inundated is just gobsmacking.
Luckily the waters are receding but should peak slightly again today at 4pm.
I'm heading off to Western Australia tomorrow where bushfires and a cyclone is raging for a workshop with some well known photographers. I feel very de-motivated about going and would like to stay but instead when I arrive back next Tuesday night, I'll be heading off from Wednesday to be deployed (I work with the Queensland Government) at the towns and cities effected by the floods to assist and help those effected by the terrible tragedy that has occurred.
As such, I'll be off Flickr for a fair while.
Best of luck to you all. Please be safe.
Queensland Flood Relief Donation Appeal - www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
The most up to date information on the floods can be found on Channel 9 and ABC1 and also the following Facebook groups:
Queensland Police
Queensland Floods
Feel The Quiet River Rage (Brisbane Flood Peak @ Kangaroo Point - January 13th 2011)
Gear: Canon 5D Mk II| Canon 17-40
Settings: ISO 100 | f/11 | 80.0 | 20mm
[Facebook Fan Page][ShutterBugs] [Twitter] [iFolio] [iPhone] [SEQ Meetup Group]
Dear Flickr Friends.
Brisbane, Ipswich and the Lockyer Valley including Toowoomba have been hit very, very hard this week with the worst floods since 1974.
The flood peak today was expected to be just below the flood peak of 5.2 metres, but was revised down to 4.45 metres at the peak today @ 4am. I ventured to Kangaroo Point very early to capture this photograph of the event. Those statues in the water are a fair way back from the water edge and the sound of the river roaring was just something out of a movie.
Fortunately, I've been very very lucky and so have my family that we've not been effected by the floods.
It's extremely surreal being in a high and dry part of Brisbane (Carina) whereas only a few kilometres away each way people's homes and business have been lost and ruined.
Seeing the devastation particularly along the river of Brisbane, where pontoons, the Brisbane River Walk and many boats have floated out into Moreton Bay was pure awe yet terribly shocking. Seeing places like Suncorp Stadium inundated and the areas around Rocklea and West End and countless others completely inundated is just gobsmacking.
Luckily the waters are receding but should peak slightly again today at 4pm.
I'm heading off to Western Australia tomorrow where bushfires and a cyclone is raging for a workshop with some well known photographers. I feel very de-motivated about going and would like to stay but instead when I arrive back next Tuesday night, I'll be heading off from Wednesday to be deployed (I work with the Queensland Government) at the towns and cities effected by the floods to assist and help those effected by the terrible tragedy that has occurred.
As such, I'll be off Flickr for a fair while.
Best of luck to you all. Please be safe.
Queensland Flood Relief Donation Appeal - www.qld.gov.au/floods/donate.html
The most up to date information on the floods can be found on Channel 9 and ABC1 and also the following Facebook groups:
Queensland Police
Queensland Floods