Happy Easter Tasmanians...love from the forestry

A little political for the Easter break, but I'm really over this! Believe it or not, this smoke haze seen from our place this morning isn't too bad. I'm cursing I didn't take a photo last Sunday.

Autumn is Tasmania's most magic weather: mild and still. This is the season we tell people to come and holiday here. Often there are public events to make the most of it. Unfortunately our 3rd world forestry practices are still madly occurring. They do their burn-offs in autumn too. They fill the air with smoke, in different locations around the state. The ordinary people just have to complain to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), but so far clean air just doesn't rate as something that matters..... (don't even start me on the lack of importance of our forests).....

It wasn't like this when I was a child.... My friend has a 3 year old who can't enjoy autumn because he is an asthmatic.... :-( They warn (our high level of) asthmatics to stay inside now because of the smoke levels. If they have to venture out they have to carry their puffers with them at all times. Disgusting!!!

Ron posted photos of the smoke this morning in his neck of the woods here:
www.flickr.com/photos/ron-alenka/7048962431/in/contacts/
It looks like the air flow has been less kind to him.

Taken on: April 6, 2012

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Australia

Tasmania

Canon PowerShot SX10 IS

Forestry

pollution

smoke « less

Sets appears in: • Landscape Tasmania

Camera: Canon PowerShot SX10 IS, f/4.5, 1/400 sec, 28.4mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

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Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	28.4mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
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