nigel wesley - photographer

Brisbane Floods - One year on

2012-01-15T19:56:00.000+10:00

One year on from the floods that stopped Australia's 3rd largest city and impacted so many people in South East Queensland, I've revisited my flood coverage and here's a few more images of the aftermath of the floods of 2011.

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Brisbane River in flood - January 2011

Brisbane Floods - The Clean Up

2011-05-24T21:12:00.010+10:00

With the commencement of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry, the inquiry has received more than 440 GB of information, which amounts to about six million printed pages. The year long inquiry will investigate the disaster, state's preparedness and response to widespread flooding, examining the dam operations and early flood warnings, particularly in the Lockyer Valley where more than 20 people died.

Here are some new images of the aftermath and the massive clean up operation, that went on for months and in some areas, is still going on.

Brisbane Floods - 12 January 2011

2011-01-24T21:52:00.011+10:00

The only way to show just how BIG this flood was, would have been from the air. Some great shots have been circulating media outlets with examples of this, but I had to settle with land based images, so here's a few pano's I've just created.

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Southbank Parklands

Kangaroo Point

Fairfield

West End

Brisbane Floods - January 2011

2011-01-14T20:59:00.011+10:00

After an inland tsunami swept through Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley on the 10th January, leaving 9 people dead and 66 missing, the capital city of Queensland - Brisbane is now engulfed in floodwater. With mass evacuees from suburbs such as West End, Fairfield, New Farm, Milton, Rosalie, Auchenflower, Toowong, Chelmer, Rocklea the river reached a peak of 4.46m, 1 metre shy from the icon flood of '74.

2 days after the Darling Downs tsunami the death toll has risen to 16, with 58 still missing.

The following images were taken in various locations around Brisbane and its inner city suburbs, before, during and after the flood.

West End

Ryan St residents work furiously to protect their home from the rising floodwater.

Panic buying in numerous supermarkets leaves the shelves bare.

Preparing for BIG water.

Boats smash into wharfs along Hamilton Reach.

Moved to higher ground.

West End

Numerous boats and pontoons are ripped from their anchorage and float 24km down river and out into the Bay.

West End

South Brisbane

Southbank

Sonny Tiger 2010

2010-12-26T19:13:00.006+10:00

Well, we're almost at the end of 2010 and Mr Moo has just turned one and look how much he's changed.

Wynnum Flash Floods

2010-12-12T12:23:00.003+10:00

Heavy rain has caused flash flooding in south-east Queensland on Saturday afternoon, where six houses in one street in Wynnum were flooded out.

The rain has been triggered by a troublesome trough that is responsible for inundating communities across parts of New South Wales and Queensland, during the past week.

Mei-Ly

2010-12-08T14:10:00.003+10:00

I've been wanting to do a shoot here for so many years and finally it all came together with the help of Mei-ly and Candy, who did the great job with H&M. Thanks guys.

Supanova - Cosplay Festival - Brisbane - November 2010

2010-12-06T15:58:00.004+10:00

Here's a few shots from Supanova. Numbers were way down from the event held earlier on in the year - scroll down further to see them

What an awesome costume!

Oli's 1st Birthday

2010-08-15T12:26:00.005+10:00

A great day in the park with special guests Peebo & Dagwood, who were very entertaining & alot of fun.

DiViDED feat tranceducer @ Barsoma

2010-07-28T12:22:00.004+10:00

Saturday 10th July 2010 - tranceducer, digital divide, mook, midium vs mateusz, robohan & cjm play Barsoma - a showcase of australian DJ talent.

David & Amanda's Wedding

2010-06-14T21:33:00.005+10:00

Supanova 2010 - Brisbane

2010-04-12T20:46:00.010+10:00

Supanova Pop Culture Expo - the place to come face to face with the creative talents that inspire their imaginary worlds of science-fiction, toys, console gaming, animation/cartoons, fantasy and comic books.

Sonny T

2010-02-05T16:54:00.004+10:00

After many requests, here are some new pics of Sonny T

And finally some with his eyes open :)

Mummy & her other man

'Im looking at you'

11 weeks & counting and he's been soooo good

Peyton

2009-12-19T14:54:00.004+10:00

Sunday Afternoon

2009-12-16T16:15:00.002+10:00

Kids at play

Sonny Tiger

2009-12-06T13:00:00.003+10:00

Thank you everyone for your beautiful thoughts & comments over the past 2 weeks with the news of the arrival of Sonny to our family. He's soooo cute......................

Zombie Walk - Brisbane - 2009

2009-11-15T13:37:00.004+10:00

Once again, another huge turnout for this annual event. The zombie's dragged their way through the city centre and then onto the Valley, where all 300 odd zombie's hit Brunswick St for some Thriller action.

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More Zombie Walk

2009-11-13T20:32:00.007+10:00

Zombie Walk - Brisbane - 2009

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Dust Storm Smothers Brisbane

2009-09-23T16:47:00.004+10:00

Here's a few shots from a dust storm that has just blown in from central Australia

2500km Round Trip

2009-09-15T23:10:00.012+10:00

A few months ago I had an opportunity to go on a solo road trip to the Big Smoke. I got to mix with industry folk for a number of days, before heading out to Mulgoa and further West to reconnect with family and friends. Here's a selection of images from that 2500km round trip.

Quiet Street in Mulgoa

Mount Schoenstatt - Mulgoa

The Schoenstatt Shrine is a place of grace & pilgrimage nestled in the hills overlooking the little township of Mulgoa. Schoenstatt means 'beautiful place' and it is here that people from all walks of life, find moments of peace and tranquility on their journey through life.

Inside the tiny shrine

Warragamba Dam

Located about 65 kilometres west of Sydney in a narrow gorge on the Warragamba River, Warragamba Dam is one of the largest domestic water supply dams in the world.

Water is collected from the catchments of the Wollondilly and Coxs River systems covering an area of 9,050 square kilometres to form Lake Burragorang and Warragamba Dam.

Lake Burragorang is the largest urban water supply in Australia, containing four times the volume of water of Sydney Harbour. It accounts for about 80 per cent of the water supply for nearly four million people in the Sydney region.

The quaint Blue Mountains village of Leura

The 3 Sisters - Katoomba

Govett's Leap - Blackheath

Hartley Historic Village

The village was one of the first settlements west of the Blue Mountains and reflects the simple needs and the way of life of the mid 1800's. There are three old inns, two churches and private homes still remaining. The Court House was the scene of hundreds of trials of convicts in the early days and is now open as a museum, brought to life with tape recordings based on actual trials.

Betty & my old mate Stan

Strange cows in Peel

Sunset over Wattle Flat

Tikies Design

2009-08-16T20:58:00.009+10:00

Here's some of the range from Islander inspired label - Tikies Design

Oliver

2009-08-14T13:49:00.005+10:00

The new member of the Whitehouse family - Oliver

Adrian & Raya

2009-08-04T22:39:00.007+10:00

Its been a while since I've visited my blog, I've been on a few trips and plenty of little projects have been keeping me out of trouble :)

The following shots are of my cousibro Adrian and his lovely girlfriend Raya.

2009-04-22T00:59:00.004+10:00

At the beginning of the year a number of friends headed out to the Granite Belt for a spot of camping and relaxing in the beautiful surrounds of the Girraween National Park.
Here's a few images from that trip:

Dean & myself found ourselves deep within Mt Norman

Life on the Bay

2009-04-08T17:15:00.005+10:00

Over the past 6 months I've been doing little photo missions around the bayside suburbs of Brisbane.

Sydney

2009-03-27T13:32:00.004+10:00

The following images I shot a few months ago while on a trip to Sydney

While in Sydney, I went out to the Blue Mountains to see friends and family.

Warrimoo

My mate Gav and his little boy Oscar.

Mulgoa

Australia Day - Sorrento Beach - Western Australia

2009-03-14T14:45:00.011+10:00

The following selection of images were shot on a beautiful day along the WA coastline, at Sorrento Beach. The atmosphere and conditions couldn't have been better to celebrate Australia Day. Everywhere you looked people were so happy, celebrating everything thats Australia.

Sorrento Beach also hosted the states, Havaianas Thong Challenge, which was to form the "Longest line of airbeds in water" with proceeds going to the Starlight Foundation and Nippers.
The world record was broken in Bondi with a massive 908 thongs in the water. Sorrento came in with 683 thongs.

It was a great day, and I was quite surprised to see sooo many west australians, getting out and enjoying this beautiful day.

Random Shots

2009-03-06T10:47:00.008+10:00

Wow! Its been a few months since my last update, with all good intentions to post on a regular basis, summer has had me too pre-occupied. So with the change in the season, I want to share some new and archived images with you.

Beer & Pie Fest
West End 2003

Mark - New Years Eve 2005

Georgi on her way to Straddie and suddenly being ambushed by a mob of girls

Sumatran Tigers at play - Australia Zoo

Moth - West End

Manly Harbour Village Halloween Street Party

2008-11-12T06:02:00.006+10:00

Friday 31 October, the main streets of Manly Village were closed off, as visitors from far & wide cramped the main drag to be part of this years Halloween Street Party. I was very surprised by the huge turnout and from my point of view, everyone had a great time acting ghoulish. Here is a selection of images from the night.

2008-09-30T11:49:00.001+10:00

These next few images are from a recent trip to the Gold Coast

Any comments welcome

2008-08-27T23:06:00.002+10:00

2008-08-06T08:31:00.006+10:00

UV Art by PhySpi

2008-08-03T14:54:00.003+10:00

Some random Festival shots from Livid, Woodford, Big Day Out and Buddha's Birthday:

2008-07-26T00:43:00.005+10:00

Just some random shots:

ChiChi

Zombie Walk 2008

2008-07-18T16:32:00.005+10:00

Here's a collection of images of zombies walking the streets of Brisbane, Australia.

Zombie Walk

2008-07-08T11:04:00.007+10:00

Zombie Walk - Brisbane 2008

2008-06-19T00:26:00.004+10:00