Pittwater Bay - Sky Burning, Detail 1 - Sydney, Australia, December 2002

I arrived home this year just as the bushfires took hold of the Central NSW coast. Watching from the balcony on a sunny morning, I snapped several long and short shots as clouds of red and black smoke rose over Scotland Island and across Pittwater Bay.

This panoramic image is a combination of several portrait and landscape shots taken over 10 minutes and sewn together in an effort to recreate the experience in a single frame.