A dense pall of greasy black smoke drifting over Tharwa village as the long free-burning flanks of the Stockyard fire stoked up under freshening north-westerly winds, [18 Janauary 2003] [picture] / Jeff Cutting
- Bib ID:
- 3511854
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 2003
- 1 photograph : col. ; image 26.5 x 39.5 cm., on sheet 29.7 x 42 cm.
- Series:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945- Blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Summary:
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"Tharwa Drive, Tharwa at 1307 hrs, 18:01:2003. A dense pall of greasy black smoke loomed over Tharwa village as the long free-burning flanks of the Stockyard and Broken Cart fires, reaching back some 40 kilometres, commenced strong burning runs with the onset of extreme fire weather"--Note from the photographer.
- Notes:
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- Title from caption list supplied by the photographer, see file NLA04/564.
- Inscriptions: Signed by photographer in pencil on reverse; "20-06"--in pencil on reverse.
- Part of the collection: A blood red noon, photography of the Brindabella & southern ACT fires of January 2003.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-149588246
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased 2005.
- Subject:
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- Forest fires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Tharwa -- Photographs
- Wildfires -- Australian Capital Territory -- Tharwa -- Photographs
- Natural disasters -- Australian Capital Territory -- Tharwa -- Photographs
- Smoke -- Australian Capital Territory -- Tharwa -- Photographs
- Bridges -- Australian Capital Territory -- Tharwa -- Photographs
- Tharwa (A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- Tharwa Bridge (A.C.T.) -- Photographs
- Other authors/contributors:
- Cutting, Jeff, 1945-
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2003
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