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April 1, 2008
It looks as if the rains will finally arrive in South Australia. They will accompany a southerly change from the west and, finally, we will have cool autumn temperatures. Not that the rains will be much. Strong winds and showers are what is expected to arrive during the night. The showers will only wet the dry, cracked ground. We need it to rain steadily for several day at the very least. That is not forecasted.
Gary Sauer-Thompson, barbed wire + storm clouds, Fleurieu Peninsula, 2008
The cold front did arrive in South Australia from the south west. About 10,000 homes In SA were left without power as winds reached 90kmh in areas stretching from Goolwa, south of Adelaide, to Kapunda, north of Adelaide. There were wind gusts of up to 137km/h at Cape Willoughby on Kangaroo Island whilst dust storms swept through the Mallee and Riverland. There was little rain though as the winds were dry. It is rain we need.
The wild weather--the killer storm of the media --can be understood as a quite dark, powerful,violent, and ugly force of nature. Is this not the tabloid's 'killer storm' another name for the romantic sublime? Does this not indicate that the sublime is related to the sense of tragedy?
We think of painting and the sublime --an example--but not photography and the sublime. Yet photography is a pictorial or visual language.
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