For those of you not in Sydney, you should take a look at look at the local Sydney news, for example the Sydney Morning Herald. There is no white balance problem with those photos. They are not photoshopped. Believe me, I commuted through it this morning and am still looking at it out the window of my office building in the CBD.

There was a significant cold front that passed through from the west last night (coming from where all the good Aussie "red earth" is). It unleashed very heavy rain & wind last night, and then this morning... The whole of Sydney is blanketed in thick, orange dust!

I walked out the front door this morning at 5:30am and for a second wondered if I really was awake or if I was still in bed dreaming - it was (and still is) a very surreal experience. I'm partly kicking myself that I didn't bring my DSLR with me to work today, but partly glad too because cleaning out all that camera-destroying dust would be near impossible I think. But then again how often do you experience a morning where you can't see any blue anywhere...at all!?!?

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