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Pyrmont, the area of Sydney where I live and work, was once home to a series of quarries spreading right across the suburb and into neighbouring Ultimo. The three quarries were named Paradise, Purgatory and Hellhole, apparently by Scottish workmen. If I remember rightly, that's a giant block of Paradise sandstone in this shot, lit dramatically by the dying afternoon sun.
The entertaining part of all this means that my lounge officially has views to Paradise.
Well, at least one of the walls of what remains of Paradise quarry.
Posted on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
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Kicking off this Saturday is the 2007 Sydney Design Festival, with plenty of exhibitions, talks and walks around the city.
I’m going to have to check out some of the architecture walks, and given my well documented recent photographic fixation, that list will have to include the Jørn Utzon walk.
Posted on Monday, July 30, 2007
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Thinking about the up-close detail of Sydney Opera House’s roof got me thinking about other famous buildings whose cladding is equally iconic, and the most obvious answer is Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Posted on Sunday, July 29, 2007
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Europe 2006-2007
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As much as I knew the Sydney Opera House’s famous roof was covered in white tiles, just how this actually worked in reality didn’t really hit me until I was here in Sydney and had a chance to get right up close to the thing.
The sails (I think they’re officially called shells) are actually covered in over a million ceramic tiles arranged in patterns of gloss white and matte cream — you can see the difference in this shot.
The way light plays on the iconic curved roof is I think the most captivating part of the building — the colour, reflections and shadows from the other peaks and the bridge as the sun sets — are always changing and I’ve resigned myself to the fact that photos will never really capture it.
That doesn’t mean I’ll stop taking photos though. I just know they won’t really do it justice.
Posted on Saturday, July 28, 2007
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Another shot from the close-up series of waves crashing onto rocks at Bondi.
Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007
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Photos
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The northern side of the Sydney Harbour Bridge caught in a Vespa’ wing mirror, outside the North Sydney swimming pool. I’m not sure there are many other pools with quite such an arresting view.
I’ll have to head back and go inside on a warmer day.
Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007
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Just doing my bit to tip my chair-to-non-chair posting ratio in favour of chairs.
The Opera House makes a beautiful photo subject.
Posted on Tuesday, July 24, 2007
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Chairs
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It occurs to me that it's been some time since this site has been graced by a photo of a chair — 106 days if I’m not mistaken — so here’s one to set help fix that.
Oh, and I think there’s some famous tourism icon out of focus in the background.
Posted on Monday, July 23, 2007
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Chairs
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I’m back from the Aroma Festival at The Rocks, buzzing quietly after — and this is only a guess, I lost count somewhere around 2.30pm — three coffees and four hot chocolates.
I sampled every European-style thick hot chocolate on offer, I think prize for thickest goes to the website-less Gourmet Beverage Company's hot chocolate (pictured). Granted it’s a sissy purple plastic spoon, but it stood standing unassisted for at least thirty seconds while it was photographed from every angle.
That’s worryingly thick.
I’m a simple man so I stuck with the original chocolate version, steering clear of flavours ranging from chilli pepper (chilli and chocolate being a match made in heaven, as evidenced by the sadly discontinued Dangerous Liaisons Tim Tams) to the slightly disturbing sounding Yellow-flesh peach and chocolate.
On an unrelated note, my vote for best coffee was hands-down Toby’s Estate. That’s a tasty, tasty coffee.
Posted on Sunday, July 22, 2007
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Hot Chocolate
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I think I’ve found a solution to my internet woes. More on that soon.
In the meantime, I’m heading down to the Aroma Festival in The Rocks tomorrow, and aside from tasting a lot of coffee, I plan on reporting back with any hot chocolate based findings.
Posted on Saturday, July 21, 2007
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Hot Chocolate
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One pitfall of my current net-less situation at home is that I'm way, way, way behind with all the blogs and news sites I read.
I'm currently denying the situation and trying to slowly work through the items in my feed reader rather than click 'mark all as read' and reach some kind of self-induced informational zen.
I'll let you know if I cave.
Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007
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Stepping even further back in time, here's a cobbled street in Sweden.
From memory it’s probably a street in Gamla Stan, the amazingly well-preserved old town area of Stockholm.
Posted on Sunday, July 15, 2007
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Europe 2006-2007
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One from a couple of months, and about 17,000km ago.
There’s something about the Underground that looks good in black and white.
Posted on Saturday, July 14, 2007
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Europe 2006-2007
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Here’s a wider view of the pool at Bondi.
There don’t seem to have many of these in Perth – pools right alongside the beach, filled with seawater by the waves crashing over the edge. They’re everywhere here in Sydney.
Posted on Friday, July 13, 2007
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Looking out over the pool at Bondi.
Posted on Thursday, July 12, 2007
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Hello Internet. I missed you.
I'm still without net at home. It's a long story.
Rather than go into that painful tale, here's another photo from the storm over Bondi about a month ago now.
Posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2007
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