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Australian drought & floods

Australia is the driest inhabited continent even though some areas have annual rainfall of over 1200 millimetres.
Our climate is highly variable - across the continent generally, as well as from year-to-year.
Currently Australia is in the grip of one of it's worst droughts in history
Where water once flowed o6/99/380799/1/71615026.9LtbPb1m.Logsbythepath.jpg
Signs of drought Old shack in the sunset
A pathway of hay Drought on the farm
Abandoned in the drought Floodwaters at dusk
Floodwaters in Sale Fence under flood waters
Fields of drought Gippsland floods
Barn and hay bales Hay bales undercover
Dusk on a barren farm After the Gippsland floods
Dead trees Sunset on floodwaters
Floodwater sunset Saving rain water
Drought on the river Saddle Dam
Hills of drought Wherever I hang my hat
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Trees in floodwaters Hay bails
Bore water windmill Dry creekbed
Died long ago Cracked earth
Water tanks on farm A dry farm
Reservoir at 40 percent full o4/99/380799/1/99807855.LvTQDlQw.12yearsofdrought.jpg
Farmers selling to survive Dam with little water
Hay for sale Good soil but no water

comment
Jeroen Bosman05-Jan-2008 11:26
Beautiful work! would be very intrested to know in which parts of Australia these were shot.
Stephen Phillips05-Jan-2008 04:48
This is a sobering collection of images - at the same time - quite beautiful. Nice work.

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Congratulation on your new Prime Minister - now if we can just get our 'Bush' League resident of The White House to move on, we can get to the business of trying to be good custodians of our planet.
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