Smoke from the Australian bush fires reach New Zealand / Landscape Photography
Channel: Paul Taylor Photography
Date: 03/01/2020

Smoke from the Australian bush fires reach New Zealand Landscape Photography. Devastating wild fires are currently ravaging massive swathes of land throughout Australia. People have lost their lives, countless properties and community have been raised to the ground, emergency staff, especially fire fighters are working tirelessly and heroically to attempt to contain and control the situation. Watching these event unfold from 2500 miles away in New Zealand horrific, but I really can't imagine the scale of the disaster from reading about it or watching news reports on TV. What has brought home the reality is witnessing smoke from Australia literally blocking out the sun in New Zealand 2500 miles away, get your head around that, I'm still struggling to grasp that fact. What I can grasp is the amazing surreal effect that smoke and haze is having on our sunrises and sunsets. In this video I present some of my photographs taken over the last month or so when Easterly winds have brought smoke across the Ditch (Tasman Sea).
Hope you enjoy this video, but more importantly I hope it gives you a sense of the magnitude this catastrophic bush fire season is having on our neighbours to the East.