STEEL & HEELS
Quite cool what you can capture if you look down, given a nice effect using the Helga filter in Camera Bag.

UNDERGROUND
Funky light display on the walls of the Underground club in the basement of the Oxford Hotel, Oxford St.

100
I celebrated the one hundreth image this year by taking these 9 shots in the one day and creating the 100 montage.

FOGGY MORN
Fog descended on Sydney one morning, causing this overpass to disappear into the mist.

UP OR DOWN
Shoppers at the newly opened Mid City Centre in Sydney walk up and down the steps and escalators.

So this story will have made it’s way round the web pretty quickly as Sydney woke up to what looked like life on Mars on Weds 23rd Sep. It was actually the wind that woke me at 6am but as I glanced out of the window I saw this bizarre orange glow. At first glance I thought it was fog, but with the wind there was no way it could be, so after switching on the radio I discovered I was experiencing one of Sydney’s worst dust storms in 70 years.

It looked like the end of the world, a nuclear winter, the orange glow being caused by the low angle of the sun at that time of the morning. As the sun rose the sky took on a less dramatic light beige hue. Stories about the storm are on news sites the world over and social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter were flooded with images from camera phones. This multimedia gallery from the Sydney Morning Herald pretty much sums up the day.

So it’s the start of the Australia Day long weekend and we get one of the hottest days of the summer so far here in Sydney. Rather than a photo this is a screenshot of the Sydney Morning Herald weather page in the afternoon (click on the image for the full size version). Now 40.8°C isn’t exactly the hottest temperature in the world but it’s more than enough for me! It’s the sort of day where you close the windows to keep the heat out.

Later in the afternoon went down to the beach was surprisingly quiet, guess it was too hot for most people but it was a good way to finish the day, however walking across the sand was near impossible, like walking over hot coals….not that I’ve done that but it must be close.

At 6.30pm a southerly change blew in…..that basically means that the winds change direction all of a sudden and blow in from the south. Down here southerlies are nice and cool and the change usually happens real quick, in fact it probably dropped about 10 degrees in 30 minutes and was a very very welcome relief. At that point there was mass exodus of the beach and Sydney’s hottest day in a while was over.