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Driving around Sydney this weekend around the golden hour Sonia and I stopped off at Cremorne Point to get some shots of the city skyline from across the river. Here is a couple of similar shots in terms of subject and composition, the only real difference being the 45 minutes (ok so an hour sounded better for the title of this post!) between them. The first shot captures the beautiful golden light against the buildings as the sun crouches low in the sky off to the right, the second was bout 15 minutes after sunset when the sky lights up with an almost surreal glow as the suns rays are filtered through the atmosphere to create the sometimes unpredictable tones. Incidentally, there is a pretty small window of opportunity when the lights come on in all the buildings and there is still enough sun to give the sky some nice colour.
Enough talk, here are the shots!
Sydney skyline @4.30pm
Sydney skyline @5.15pm
It just so happened that it was also the penultimate evening of the Vivid Festival, a month long celebration of the arts and of which a major feature is the “lighting of the sails” when every night between 6pm and 1am a display of light and poetry is projected onto the sails of the opera house.
Check out the gallery below to see the two photos from above in a larger format as well as a handful of shots of the Opera House in the lighting of the sails attraction.
Well you have no doubt seen or heard about the amazing dust storms that hit Sydney today so I won’t bore you with detail. I just thought I would share my view of the phenomenon as I took my short daily walk from Elizabeth Street to Wynyard, through Martin Place.
Castlereagh Street
Martin Place tube station
Martin Place & the Post Office clock
George Street
Martin Place
Martin Place
George Street with Australia Square in the background
George Street
Wynyard Park
Wynyard Park
Suncorp Building from Wynyard Park
Erskine Street
Erskine Street
While you’re in the mood, here are some links to a bunch of other photos of this strange, strange morning:
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/22/red-dust-over-sydney/
The sign of things to come?
Sydney Daily Photo
Welcome to my fifth photo blog post! Today I bring you a series of images that I took last night at a place named Mrs Macquarie’s Point in Sydney which offers stunning views across the bay to the city skyline, Sydney Opera House and the harbour bridge.
Cinematic view of the Opera House
The two towers of the northern end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge
Wide angle shot across the bay
Sydney’s CBD behind the Botanic Gardens
A closer look at the city skyline
Zooming in on the Sydney Tower
I adore city skylines, especially by night and this is probably my favourite location to view what Sydney has to offer with great views of three of the cities best known landmarks.
Many thanks for looking!
For more info on this location, head over to the Discover Sydney website here
Sydney skyline @4.30pm
Sydney skyline @5.15pm
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