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September 26th 2009 10:05
This one was close to home I used to live there for a long time and travelled each day on the ferry from this very wharf but not one dust storm, while I was there but a few inpenetrateable fogs.
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A dust storm blankets Neutral Bay, Sydney, September 23, 2009. Your View/Joshua Kerr
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It was a sublime moment when I took this photo. I was half asleep at the time; by chance I woke up just after 5.00am with a dry mouth. I first saw the thick red glow on my way to the kitchen for a glass of water. It was a beautiful ugly moment. Within a few minutes I grabbed my camera and ran down the hill from my apartment to neutral bay wharf and just kept on taking photos, believing that the moment would only last a few minutes.
With that thinking in mind I was simply enjoying myself and listing to end of world type music, wearing bed cloths & clunky work shoes.
During the time I was photographing, Neutral Bay was shielded on both sides from the heavy wind. Making it a mystical type place, still warm, the dust grains visually unapparent, the sky I thought maybe a bush fire fog, yet with a strange subtle sweet smell, that I couldn’t exactly figure out what was what.
After the dreamy state was over for me, I began to feel sick in the stomach. Having the same sense that you have after being on a theme park ride for to long.
Wanting things to go back to normal. This photograph is an example of one person’s experience of climate change.
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and Joshua, it's a wonder you lived to tell the tale, those dust particles were very harmful and you would have breathed in more than your fair share of them as you made all of that effort with your camera.
Thank you so much for sharing your unique experience with us, and I hope the air is now clear and pure.
Neutral Bay is a great place to live.