The Flickr Duststorm Image Generatr

Sun setting into airborne dust from the crazy winds two days ago. It's setting over the Turkey Mountains and the rolling foothills of the southern Sangre de Cristo mountains. You can actually see a few sunspots if you enlarge the image. I took the photo after stepping out the back door of my place in New Mexico. I got pretty blasted by the wind during the few minutes I was out there.

Taken from Harding County, New Mexico, USA looking west, but pretty much everything in the photo is actually in Mora County, NM...save for the sun. The sun is in space.

Camera: Fujifilm X-T5
Lens: Tamron 18-300 mm
Settings: ISO 400, f/8, 1/450s, 300 mm
Shot handheld.

Dust storm in rural Nebraska.

Circa 1930s, photographer unknown.

Source: Nebraska State Historical Society

The wind really picked up the evening of April 1st, causing the dry, red soil to take flight. I was out on a several-mile hike, and this dust storm had me crying mud and chewing sand, but at least the lighting was cool! Several turkey vultures were flying through the dusty canyon, which I thought looked pretty neat. Thank goodness for weather-sealed gear. I really put weather sealing to the test!

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, Texas, USA

Camera: Fujifilm X-T5
Lens: Tamron 18-300 mm
Settings: ISO 160, f/11, 1/300s, 203 mm
Shot handheld.

Arizona

I have unfortunately not had time to post on Flickr about my current Burn2 build while the main parts of the event (this past weekend) were still running. The build will remain up until this-coming Sunday though, so it's not too late to come visit if you like. Several people will have their builds up through this week, and there will still be some events, so there is much to see. :)

The current Burn2 theme is "Clockwork Frontier", though I went a little loose with my interpretation. My build is inspired by what came *after* the frontier times in America: the dust bowl era of the 1930s and 1940s. One of the photographers who captured it, Dorothea Lange, also became a large part of the inspiration for my build and my avatar. The cabin is a small gallery of some of her dust bowl photos, as well as a couple photos of Dorothea herself, taken by others.

If you are unfamiliar with the dust bowl, it took place in some parts of the middle of the country during the great depression. Lots of people had moved to parts of Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico in the 1890s in search of prosperity. Many were given government grants to set up homestead farms, and it was great in the beginning. Their farming practices and the ever-changing weather in the region combined to create a massive problem after a while, though. By the 1930s, the rains stopped coming. The soil became arid, and could no longer support the agriculture people had moved there for. The once-fruitful soils dried out and blew away, and contributed to massive dust storms which only intensified problems for the people there. A lot of folks suffered immeasurably in America during the great depression, and few places were hit harder than the dust bowl regions. It would later come to represent the tragedy of that time period as a whole.

If you'd like to learn more about the dust bowl, there are signs on both support posts on either side of the porch that link to videos about it. There's also a free gift in one of the grain sacks that contains the sky setting intended for this build (the one you can see in the photo). I made it extra dusty.

Here's what I used to make this build (that you can see or mostly see):

The shack/cabin: DRD - Hunters Retreat - Cabin
Windmill: Mansion creations - Antique Windmill
Fencing: This and That - rope fence
Barrel: [ Cabal ] - Water Barrel
Table: ~Nika & Bear~ - Garden table with box and soil
Grain sacks (retextured by me): Wolves Virtual Project - WVP FULL PERM Mesh: 3 sacks of wheat
Signs on the support beams on either side of the porch (sign portion textured by me): DRD - GG - Rustic Halloween boards (unlinked to use one of the boards)
Flag (retextured by me with a 1930s American flag -- only 48 stars back then): F-Factory - Waving flag: USA
Land form #1 (retextured): Little Branch - Young Tibetan Cherry - 4Seasons - Hill landform from this pack
Land form #2 (retextured): Studio Skye - Woodland Path
Crop rows: T-Spot Mesh - Dirt Rows for Vegetable Gardens
Water pump: The Black Forest - Hand Water Pump
Longhorns: Nature's Call - Steer Horns - Brown Leather Tooled Edges
Handcart: .:shamhat:. - wooden handcart
Wagon wheels: Argyle Builders - Wagon Wheel Set
Photo frames inside the cabin: [D]oppleganger - Bitch Framed Word Art (Pearl) [tinted]
Desk: Crocodoggle - Seaford Compact Desk - Beech
Sound design done by me, with the help of AI generators.

Location: The Dust Bowl @ Burn2
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Early last week,dust from storms in Oklahoma and Texas reached our area here in Northern Illinois affecting our skies for days. On this particular day,a storm front came through and mixed with the dust causing these unusual brown skies. Rain from these storms made a mess of vehicles and kept local car washes busy for days...

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.

These were taken right as a huge dust storm was coming in, so we did not get to do the full hike.