Campbells Cove, Vivid Sydney, Fire Water

Fire Water during the Vivid Sydney festival was a theatrical spectacle that combined flames and the harbour. The show at Campbells Cove at The Rocks was a recreation of the fire that sank the convict ship The Three Bees in 1814 and sent its cannon balls blazing across the harbour. The performance included an Aboriginal smoking ceremony and live music performed by Coda.

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Customs House, Vivid Sydney

Customs House is a heritage building at Circular Quay that has been turned into a cultural destination. It features a library, function rooms, a restaurant and bar. During the Vivid Sydney festival, the building was bathed in blue light and had laser displays flashed across the facade (above). The Smart Light installation in the forecourt (below) known as Lumenocity was an abstracted energy consumption map of the Sydney CBD.

A full-scale model of the Sydney CBD is embedded beneath a glass floor at ground level and artwork is displayed throughout the building. Green Void currently hangs in the atrium (below) and it was also one of the objects featured in the laser display.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Vivid Sydney, Smart Light

During the Vivid Sydney festival, Smart Light illuminated the city with artistic light installations. This oneat the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney was called Facade. The images changed every few minutes, with the final image being animated and resembling falling snow. You can see a shot of the MCA during the day here.

Sydney Opera House, Vivid Sydney, Luminous

The Sydney Opera House presented the first festival of music, debate, light and performance known as Luminous which ran between 28th May and 14th June. The curator was musician and artist Brian Eno, who created the Lighting the Sails artwork. The glowing light artwork projected on the Sydney Opera House morphed and evolved throughout each evening, starting at around 6pm and ending at midnight.

Sydney Harbour, Vivid Sydney

These views of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House during the Vivid Sydney Festival are from Mrs Macquarie's Chair. Vivid Sydney is a new festival of music, lights and ideas. Held for the first time this year, it brought The Rocks and Circular Quay areas to life. Luminous, was a music and light festival at the Sydney Opera House. Smart Light Sydney illuminated the city with artistic light installations. Creative Sydney involved a number of creative industry performances. Fire Water was a performance of music, art, flames and the harbour.

Sydney Opympic Park, Olympic Boulevarde

Sunset view of Olympic Boulevarde at Sydney Olympic Park, towards Haslams Creek. A shot taken later can be seen here.
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Sydney Olympic Park, Abattoir Heritage Precinct

The Abattoir Heritage Precinct is located along Herb Elliott Avenue at Sydney Olympic Park, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay. These administrative buildings were part of the State Abattoirs, dating from 1915. They were redeveloped for the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games for use by the Sydney Olympic Park Authority and visitor services. They are currently used for various sporting administration offices, visitor information and a café.

Haslams Creek, Homebush Bay

One of the bends in Haslams Creek at Homebush Bay. The viewing pier can be seen in the distance. Following some decent rainfalls, the grass is certainly green around the creek at the moment. It's amazing how different it was here, when we were in the middle of the drought.

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Sydney Olympic Park, railway station

Olympic Park railway station serves the stadiums at Homebush Bay. It is an underground station that is located on a balloon loop. There are limited services on weekdays from Lidcombe station and regular services from other stations during special events.

Sydney Olympic Park, The Attractor

The Attractor is a monument in Overflow Park at Sydney Olympic Park built for the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. This 25 metre ladder symbolises the fundamental principles of Olympism which also apply to human endeavours. It was inspired by an illustration in a book by seventeenth century metaphysicist Robert Fludd. The six rungs of the ladder bear a word, from the lowest rung upwards: sensus, imaginatio, ratio, intellectus, intelligentia, verbum. According to the artist "the giant ladder as a symbol of ascession has an obvious meaning in the context of sport and the Olympics - it suggests the desire to ascend, to scale heights, to climb up, to improve, to achieve to transcend one's limitations".

Sydney Olympic Park, The Sprinter

The Sprinter is a metallic sculpture in front of the Sydney SAthletic Centre at the corner of Dawn Fraser Avenue and Edwin Flack Avenue at Sydney Olympic Park, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay. It was originally installed in 1998, on top of Sydney Tower with two other figures for the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2000. The sprinter was relocated here in 2002, while the other two sculptures, a gymnast and a Paralympic basketballer, were relocated to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra.

Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Showground

A view of one of the Sports Halls from Olympic Boulevarde near the corner of New England Avenue, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay. The complex was built for 2000 Sydney Olympic Games and is used to host events in Volleyball, Table Tennis, Badminton, Handball and Futsal or Indoor Soccer. It is also a Sydney Showground venue for the annual Sydney Royal Easter Show.

Sydney Olympic Park, fountain, sunset

Last weekend I was lucky enough to catch the sun setting behind the Northern Water Feature at Sydney Olympic Park, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay. I featured views of these fountains from a different position here.

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Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Showground, Main Arena

The Main Arena at Sydney Showground at Homebush Bay was another stadium that was used during the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. It is now used as the showring for the Royal Agricultural Society during the annual Royal Easter Show.

Sydney Olympic Park, The Couldron

During the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, The Cauldron was alight on the northern end of the Olympic stadium. After the Olympic Games, the cauldron was converted into a fountain and relocated to Overflow Park at Sydney Olympic Park. It can also still be reignited for special occasions, including the duration of Olympic Games held at other sites such as Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008.

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Sydney Olympic Park, Superdome

The Sydney Superdome is an undercover stadium at Sydney Olympic Park. It was built for the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and is now known as Acer Arena.

Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Showground

The Sydney Showground Exhibition Hall and the Wynne Pavilion  (top) are some of the many pavilions that make up the Sydney Showgrounds at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay. The Sports Halls (bottom) are used for sporting events and are used for exhibitions by the Royal Agricultural Society during the annual Royal Easter Show.

Sydney Olympic Park, stadiums

The Hockey Centre, Athletics Centre and Aquatic Centre at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay.

Sydney Olympic Park pods

These interactive video pods are scattered throughout Sydney Olympic Park, displaying information on current and historical events. The pods are surrounded by poles of varying height that indicate their location, which are gold, silver and bronze which, the colours of medals that can be won at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Sydney Olympic Park, Stadium Australia

Stadium Australia is the former Olympic Stadium, now known as ANZ Stadium, built for the Sydney Olympic Games. It is located at Sydney Olympic Park, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay.

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Sydney Olympic Park, Games Memories

'Games Memories', which is also known as 'Forest of Poles', at Sydney Olympic Park is a monument to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Each pole features memories that made the games special to athletes, volunteers and spectators. The poles are randomly distributed and of varying heights to symbolise the way that people randomly clustered across the Olympic Plaza and Olympic Boulevard during the Games.

Sydney Olympic Park, Northern Water Feature

The Northern Water Feature is located at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay. The ten metre high fountains consist of three rows of water plumes, the first two rows on granite terraces that cascade water down to a pool with another row of water plumes. Haslam Pier is a walkway beside them that leads to a lookout to Haslams Creek. Osmosis is the name of the artwork built into the pier.

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Haslams Creek

A view of Haslams Creek which runs between the western suburbs of Homebush Bay and Newington. 

Homebush Bay, brickpit (Theme Day: Feet)

The elevated Brickpit Ring Walkway at Homebush Bay provides a great view of the old brickpit which is now a pond. I had trouble finding something in Sydney for this theme day but thought a walkway is the closest thing to feet that I could find.

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