Wild weather: smoke clouds

This incredible scene showing the sky at sunset during an Australian bushfire was photographed by one of our Flickr members in our Wild weather group. The caption on Flickr states:

Smoke clouds (13)
Bushfire sunset (Australian bushfires, February 2009)

This image will be uploaded into a projection and featured in our Ecologic exhibition. If you have any images of wild weather scenes that you would like featured in our exhibition then please upload them to our group.

Photography by jety
License: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic

Tags: 2009, Australia, bushfire, clouds, Flickr member, orange, smoke, wild weather

The Powerhouse Museum's Photo of the Day blog features a new image each day, chosen from the Powerhouse Photo Library.

The majority of these images have been taken by Museum photographers for a variety of purposes such as for exhibitions, of objects in our collection, events, behind-the-scenes and location shots. We also feature many images taken by our Flickr community and from our visitors. We hope you enjoy the photographs and stories.

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