Rosemary Oldis, Smoking Mountains (PLACES 2021)

The bushfire smell drew me outside, to witness the eerie sight of smoke rising and drifting from several controlled burns on the flanks and foothills of Mount Bogong. In the morning light its appearance was fog-like but the hovering black smoke cloud was ominous above the Kiewa Valley.

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