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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.
Today is Australia Day, the countries national holiday to celebrate the anniversary of colonisation by captain cook and his folk 200 and something years ago.
There’s always a tonne of stuff going on around Sydney but the highlight for me is the classic car show in the streets between Hyde Park and the Domain.
It was an interesting challenge Read the rest of this entry »
My trip to the zoo yesterday led me to take this shot of another critically endangered species, the Sumatran Tiger.
The Sumatran Tiger is the smallest of all Tiger subspecies, making it easier for them to move through dense rain forrests. It is also a fast swimmer due to the webbing between its toes which when spread can give it that extra advantage. It is even known to chase prey into the water before moving in for the kill.
The typical meal for a Sumatran Tiger consists of larger prey such as deer and wild boar, but also smaller animals like fowl, monkeys and fish.
There are less than 500 of these left in the wild Read the rest of this entry »
Luk Chai is Australia’s first Asian Elephant calf, born on July 4th this year at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. I had the pleasure of seeing him today as I visited the zoo with my girlfriend Sonia and we were lucky enough to see him out and about in the enclosure feeding, mucking around in the mud and just having what appeared to be a jolly good time!
It was a baking hot day today and I am suprised my camera didn’t melt Read the rest of this entry »
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
Sydney skyline @4.30pm
Sydney skyline @5.15pm
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