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Published: 2011-01-14 09:21:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 571; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 21
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Sometimes you just gotta work with what you have on hand... which in this case was an iPhone 3G and Instagram app.4:30am, overlooking intersection of Land Street and Coronation Drive. For those not familiar with Brisbane, this particular intersection is usually about 3-4m above the river.
Got stuck at work for three days, working double shifts because no-one could get to the hospital. A few of us from food services (kitchen bitches) decided to wander down to the river to take a look before starting at 5am on the second day.
It'll take me a few days to clear the message centre, please bear with me.
Soz for the re-submit... didn't want the print.
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Instragram is full of win.
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I'm glad we're agreed
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what's ur instagram? i'll follow you ^^
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Haha, to be honest I've got no idea... Alfisti116 or something similar I think. I mostly saw it as a good fallback position if I was caught without a film camera
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aha if that's you im following you ^_^
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Haha, cool.
I've been having some issues with the 3G on my phone recently as well, so uploading has been sparodic... I put the lot on my flickr stream as well so if you're interested ---> [link]
Do you have one as well? I'll have to sit down and figure out how to add people.
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it is an amazing photo wes. my mum and i walked to the centenary highway....you could see the roof of the dfo and the river went up and over the highway bridge and up the highway itself. i didnt have anything to take a photo, which i regret
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Cheers... Man, that'd have to have the river pretty damn high to get over the highway bridge. Wish I'd seen it now.
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it was actually quite eerie. found it most disconcerting...
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I saw the photos in my local newspaper and couldn't imagine that the streets I had once walked down along the river were now meters below the water. I instantly thought of you and some of my friends down there when I first heard what had happened, so I'm glad to hear you guys are okay for the most part. Quite a sobering snapshot for sure.
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It is quite odd to think that the water got that high, some of it's just mind boggling... Ipswitch got a 20m rise in its river. Now where the hell do you get that much water from?
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I'm actually surprised at the overall quality of this pic, mate. Especially with a moble. Has a real sense of emotion and atmosphere about it all that conveys a great message about the floods. That person's 'reflection' presence completes it near perfectly too.
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Yeah, you and me both. Instagram ages photos quite nicely though, so it suits the slightly dodgy lens on the old iPhones.
I took a look through all the shots I got of the flood, and they're all quite calm pictures... none of the mayhem and destruction that gets shown on TV.
To be honest the other reason I like this one is because it reminds me of those "flooded fantasy/sci-fi city" drawings you see... and then spend the rest of the day wishing you had the skill to draw.
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lol, I can understand that. Drawing a ruined cityscape in the midst of a great flood has been on my hit list for years...
Of course, we'll always have the likes of Blue Submarine No. 6 for inspiraton, if anything.
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I've not seen Blue Submarine No.6 yet
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lol, seriously? I would have thought a bloke who loves Last Exile so much would have checked BSN6 out by now.
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Fair enough and thank you for sharing with us so how's thing down there at the moment?
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Starting to dry up now thank God. Quite a lot of cleaning to be done though.
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Fair enough and good luck with everything.
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