Thursday, 31 May 2012
Monterey, beach
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Waterloo, Crown Park
This fountain is located in Crown Park, in the inner city suburb of Waterloo. This is the part of the suburb that has been gentrified with high rise apartments, shops, restaurants, cafes and public spaces replacing many industrial and warehouse buildings.
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Chippendale, Mortuary Railway Station
Mortuary Railway Station is located on Regent Street, in the inner city suburb of Chippendale. This sandstone building was designed by James Barnet in the Victorian Free Gothic architectural style. The railway station opened as Mortuary on 29 June 1869 but its name was later changed to Regent Street. Funeral trains departed from this station, bound for Rookwood Cemetery, in the western suburbs. It was later used as platform for horses from 1938 and for parcels from 1950. It was restored by the State Rail Authority in 1981 and is now only used as a venue to launch special train services, informative displays and as a hired function centre.
Monday, 28 May 2012
Kirrawee, mural
This colourful triptych mural covers an otherwise drab wall of the newsagency, in the southern suburb of Kirrawee. It was created by local artist Philip Aspden who is also responsible for a similar mural at the railway station entrance.
Sunday, 27 May 2012
Pyrmont, lamp and bench
Saturday, 26 May 2012
Pyrmont, Blackwattle Bay
Looking across Blackwattle Bay towards the Anzac Bridge, the inner city suburb of Pyrmont and the Sydney skyline from Blackwattle Bay Park.
Friday, 25 May 2012
Watsons Bay, Our Lady Star of the Sea Catholic Church
Thursday, 24 May 2012
Watsons Bay, obelisk
This stone obelisk stands beside Robertson Park, in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay. It marks the end of the construction of the road from the city to South Head and reads: "VIII Miles from Sydney. This Road made By Subscription Was compleated in ten Weeks from the 25 of march 1811 By 21 Soldiers of His Majesty 73 Reghiment". Meanwhile, a flying fox has met an unfortunate end and hangs from the power lines in the background.
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Customs House Square, fountain
This fountain was a temporary art piece located in Customs House Square at Circular Quay last week. It was part of the promotional launch of the first all-electric car commercially available in Australia. The conceptual art display, "A World without Petrol", reused 38 old petrol browsers re-imagined as various art works, including this working fountain featuring a number of bowsers, at the centre of the square.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Customs House Square, advertisement
This art piece was located in Customs House Square at Circular Quay last week. It was part of the promotional launch of the first all-electric car commercially available in Australia. The conceptual art display, "A World without Petrol", reused 38 old petrol browsers re-imagined as fountains, popcorn machines, balloon blowers, jukebox and this one as a fire place.
Monday, 21 May 2012
Botanic Gardens, Maiden Memorial Pavilion
The Maiden Memorial Pavilion is a sandstone pavilion located close to Mrs Macquaries Road in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It was designed by Government Architect R.M.S. Wells and constructed in 1929. It is dedicated to Joseph Henry Maiden, Government Botanist and former Director of the Botanic Gardens .
Sunday, 20 May 2012
Botanic Gardens, I Wish
“I Wish” is a pink concrete sculpture of a girl mounted on a sandstone plinth which is located in the Royal Botanic Gardens. It was created by Czechoslovakian born Arthur Fleischman in 1946 and stands at the site of the first Wishing Tree. Curiously, every time I pass by here, the girl is holding some freshly cut flowers and on this day it was camelias.
Saturday, 19 May 2012
Botanic Gardens, Main Pond
Looking across the Main Pond at the Royal Botanic Gardens towards the Sydney skyline.
Friday, 18 May 2012
Rozelle, sunset
A pastel sunset sky over the Anzac Bridge, Glebe Island Bridge, Johnstons Bay and industrial silos in the inner west suburb of Rozelle. This view was from Waterfront Park at Pyrmont.
Thursday, 17 May 2012
Millers Point, warehouse
A heritage warehouse building on Windmill Street, in the inner city suburb of Millers Point.
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Maroubra, rock pools
The waves crash towards the rock pools at Maroubra as a lone jet skier heads into Maroubra Bay. The Anzac Rifle Range at Malabar can be seen on the point in the distance.
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Rookwood, monument
This is one of many impressive monuments at the Rookwood Necropolis, in the western suburb of Rookwood. This is a memorial to Samuel Henry Harris, an ex-convict who was sentenced to seven years for stealing one hundred pounds from his employers and arrived in Australia in 1833. He went into partnership with Jacob Marks and opened successful drapery shops in Melbourne.
Monday, 14 May 2012
Annandale, mural
Sunday, 13 May 2012
Glebe, Blackwattle Bay, crane
Saturday, 12 May 2012
Glebe, Earth V Sky
"Earth V Sky" is an artwork created by Allan Giddy in Bicentennial Park, in the inner city suburb of Glebe. It involves the reflection of a spectrum of coloured light on two magnificent Moreton Bay fig trees, during sunset. The nine lights are powered by a nearby wind turbine and world-first technology continuously samples the colour of the sky and then inverts the colour of the evening sky. The lights fade in gently and subtly increase in intensity over an hour and fifteen minutes.
Friday, 11 May 2012
Glebe, wind turbine
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Botanic Gardens, Gardens in Focus
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Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Botanic Gardens, Wishing Well Fountain
Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Rookwood, Sydney War Cemetery, Cross of Sacrifice
The Sydney War Cemetery is located at Rookwood Necropolis, in the western suburb of Rookwood. The Cross of Sacrifice identifies British Commonwealth war cemeteries across the world, such as this one. The cemetery has the graves of service personnel who died during Word War 2, or soon after.
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Monday, 7 May 2012
Darlinghurst, Courthouse Hotel
The Courthouse Hotel is located on the corner of Oxford Street and Bourke Street, at Taylor Square, in the inner city suburb of Darlinghurst. I snapped this on a recent morning when I was called up for jury duty at the Darlinghurst Court House opposite.
Linked to: Mellow Yellow Monday, Blue Monday
Linked to: Mellow Yellow Monday, Blue Monday
Sunday, 6 May 2012
Darling Island Wharf
The Darling Island Wharf in Darling Harbour, is located in the inner city suburb of Pyrmont. Darling Island was levelled and joined to the mainland with hewn rock in the late 1840s. It became home to shipbuilding yards of the Australian Steam Navigation Company. This view is out to Barangaroo, the Harbour Control Tower and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Barangaroo, Sydney skyline
Some brilliant colours, reflected in Darling Harbour from Barangaroo, King Street Wharf and the Sydney skyline. This view at dusk was from the wharves at Pyrmont.
Linked to: Weekend Reflections.
Friday, 4 May 2012
Allawah, sunset
A sunset sky above the southern suburb of Allawah, viewed from the railway station concourse.
Thursday, 3 May 2012
Carlton, Royal Hotel
The Royal Hotel is located on the corner of Railway Parade and Jubilee Avenue, in the southern suburb of Carlton.
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Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Hurstville, shop
The Friendly Societies' Dispensary is a commercial building in MacMahons Street, in the southern suburb of Hurstville. This heritage listed building in the Federation architectural style, features signs that describe it as a dispensary, pharmacy and a chemist shop.
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Hurstville, shop (Theme Day: Bakeries)
The Centennial Bakery building is located on the corner of Forest Road and Bridge Street, in the southern suburb of Hurstville. This corner shop bakery and residence was built in 1888, which was the centenary of European settlement in Australia. It was saved from demolition by the Hurstville Historical Society who organised its restoration, leading up to the Australia's Bicentennary in 1988. It became the St George Regional Museum, housing collected items from the region's historic past. In 1998, it became the Masonic Society offices and museum.
Linked to: Theme Day, Our World Tuesday.
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