A friend came around the other day and said I should have entered some of my flood images to newspaper’s, magazines or other sources. Flattering comments of course but I must admit all images I took were taken in a rush and with mud-covered hands so I wouldn’t necessarily agree.

Anyway they insisted this image kind of summed up the whole working-bee effort of Brisbane on the days immediately after the flood, the weekend of January 15-16 when thousands of volunteers took to the streets to help flood-affected households.

Let me know what you think. I don’t like the pole sticking out of the man’s head and it probably would have been better cropped as a landscape image to show the mayhem around as well with trucks collecting rubbish, volunteers like worker ants buzzing all over neighbouring properties and so on.

The image is of my father.

Man amidst the mud during the cleanup after the Brisbane floods.

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