Wednesday 29 June 2011

Customs House Square, Sydney Ice Bear, Vivid Sydney

"Sydney Ice Bear" was an ice sculpture of a male polar bear that was located in Customs House Square. It was carved by British sculptor Mark Coreth for World Environment Day to highlight the human impact on our environment and to create awareness of climate change. This happened to coincide with the Vivid Sydney festival, so it had quite a spectacular backdrop at night with the light projections on Customs House that I featured yesterday. I featured some daytime shots of the sculpture here.

16 comments:

  1. Great bear. I like ice sculptures. The only thing funner than an ice sculpture is watching the artist carve one.

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  2. I agree with the commenter above; when I read your post I was thinking about a couple of times when we've seen an ice sculpture being carved. Nothing quite this grand though...and esp. not with that background!

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  3. Excellent capture! A cool concept: the melting ice sculpture symbolizes the disappearance of the polar bear species. Very cool.
    Bonjour! from Monteal.

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  4. Each day I look at your photos, i am amazed at the neon lights and other interesting images of your beautiful city. This ice sculpture is amazing...looks so real. Your capture is stunning. Genie

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  5. wonderful. I would like to follow your blog.
    if you will follow mine, I will follow yours.
    (then we can go in blogcircles!)
    LOL
    www.colorfulwaldorf.blogspot.com
    see you soon
    peggy

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  6. É um post interessante. Aqui está tão frio para nós que sinto o ar gelado ao redor dessa escultura.

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  7. lovely capture and the lights are great.

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  8. Beautifully captured!

    Anticipating for Water is my entry, hope you can visit, thanks!

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  9. 'cool' bear shot!

    TQ for visiting n commenting on my blog post Jesselton - Kota Kinabalu

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  10. That is a beautiful sculpture. Wow. I hope it didn't melt too soon.

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  11. Riet, it took about three days to melt away in Sydney's early winter.

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  12. O how fantastic! Ice sculptures are so intriguing! And love the lighting effects!

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