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This photo shows some of the drama of the aftermath of a large scale bushfire. It is a detail from one of the panoramas below, and shows native forest along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in the process of recovering two years after the fires. (Eucalypt trees usually regenerate even after severe fires). You can see a line of mature recovering eucalypts across the middle of the photograph. Between that and the road are the remnants of mature pine forest which was destroyed in the fire and has now been partly cleared. And in the foreground is more ex-pine forest which has recently been cleared, ripped and replanted with native trees -- mostly hidden in their white protective guards. If you are interested in the scope and speed of the 2003 bushfires, see here for an animation showing satellite images of the fire progress day by day, and some maps showing the extent of the fires. Click on the images below to see larger panoramic versions of a series of images taken for Greening Australia. Most of them cover about 180 degrees. |
This 180 degree view used to be pine forest until burnt out in 2003. The far bank of the creek in the foreground has recently been planted with native trees for most of the length visible here. The web version of the larger image (or click on the image above) is still too small to make out the white containers protecting each newly planted tree, to see some of these plantings, look at this expanded detail taken from around the centre of the full image. WARNING: the main image is large, about 500kB -- this will take a couple of minutes to download on a dial-up connection. It opens in a new window so you can keep reading this while it downloads. [Photo is a composite of about 12 portrait orientation shots; the web version is 1/4 original size] |
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All this area was pines and so was destroyed in the fires -- except for the few recovering eucalypts you can see dotted around. The remains of the Mt Stromlo observatory can be seen on top of the hill. New plantings in the foreground amongst the weeds. [EOS300D, about 8 horizontal format shots] |
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[EOS300D, about 8 horizontal format shots] |
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[EOS300D, about 8 horizontal format shots] |
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[EOS300D, about 8 vertical format shots] |
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This page of high resolution panoramic photographs is hosted on the photographer's website. These wide-angle shots were made by stitching together a number of 6 megapixel images so that the final composite photographs are 30 to 80 megapixels big. They were constructed for Greening Australia to assist in monitoring some of the restoration work done by Greening Australia and other organisations in the area around Canberra following the devastation of the bushfires in 2003. These photographs were taken in what used to be pine plantations to the west of Canberra around the Cotter River catchment area (a source of drinking water for Canberra). To return to the Greening Australia website click on the link at top right. |
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