January 19th, 2011
Well the last week has been pretty crazy. At one end there was the some of the worst flooding Queensland has ever seen (below) and at the other we have one of the best swells Queensland has seen in years. I was lucky enough to witness and photographer both of them.
Sunday morning saw some of the best waves Kirra has had in the last few years, i’d say some of the best since about 2004. I was lucky enough to get hooked up with a jetski to shoot off which made things alot easier. It seems the shots from this little session have been a little bit of hit, the online gallery on the Surfing Life website has had over 3000 hits which is pretty cool.
One last thing, if you have facebook make sure you add me new page. I have been putting new stuff up every day.
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January 13th, 2011
One thing I really hate about natural disasters and myself is the fact that I always seem to be watching all this bad stuff happening on TV and never actually getting out there and documenting it, most the time because it’s on the other side of the country and it’s almost impossible to get into but it always gets to me. So when all of this Brisbane issue started to happen I knew it was time to try and do my bit and try and document the events as it all happened.
So yesterday Michael McQueen and myself got right into the heart of things in Brisbane and did out little bit to help out. We started off sandbagging in the city in between getting some shots then we headed out to Milton, one of the lowest parts of the city, to help the evacuation of peoples homes, many of which belonged to older people who had already left without being able to make and preparations themselves.
I don’t really know what else to say about all of this, it’s weird seeing people going through such a hard time and only being able to do so much. I guess the only thing I can say is that it’s going to take a lot of people a lot of time to get back to normal and I really think people need to get off their arse’s and do something about it instead of wondering what they can do to help. I hope these shots can make at least one person help out.
IF you can’t physically help out try and do your best with a donation to the Flood Appeal. Anyway my Army unit has gone on call so hopefully we can get up there again and help out as much as possible.
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