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| In February, 2010, I traveled to the Maranoa Shire in western Queensland, Australia. There, I had a two-week project with the local government, collecting imagery for their upcoming tourism publications. A week and a half into the project, things seemed to be going well.
Then nature decided to make things interesting. A deep monsoonal low had been making its way across Australia, bringing with it torrential rain and strong winds. Checking the weather forecasts, it became clear that the area we were working in was directly in the weather system's path. Within 24 hours, the focus of my project turned from documenting nature and tourism to documenting a natural disaster in progress.
The following images and descriptions tell the story of the flooding that ensued, when a land area the size of England received an average local rainfall greater than 130mm in one night. In the months that followed, the massive amount of water that had fallen in the Maranoa and surrounding shires slowly made its way over more than 2000 kilometres through Australia's largest inland river system - the Murray-Darling Basin - to the coast of South Australia.
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