Tuesday 16 December 2008

St Mary's Cathedral from the Australian Museum : Sydney sandstone Part 9


Looking towards St Mary's cathedral from inside the Australian Museum. The building with the pond and fountain and sloping glass wall is the Cook+Philip Park Aquatic Centre. There are more pictures of it here.

St Mary's is the Roman Catholic cathedral; its neo-Gothic sandstone facade was cleaned prior to the Pope's 2008 visit.

12 comments:

  1. Ahh, St. Mary's, my favorite place in Sydney! Isn't she beautiful?! She does look a shade lihter now.
    And inside the Museaum is my second favorite place. You have a great city.

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  2. Great snap of la grande dame in the afternoon light and with a threatening northern sky no less.

    As for that abomination of a park - may Cook and Philip both turn in their grave - give me the old City Bowling Club any old day!

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  3. Julie is refering to times I haven't known. The city bowling club?

    I only visited the Australian museum once. I can see exactly where this photo was taken from. Nice cleaning job they did for the Pope's visit. When I left Sydney last year they still had the scaffolding on...

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  4. Beautiful building. I'm loving this Sandstone series. Such a brilliant idea and fab photos, Sally.

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  5. That's a beautiful photo. It looks like a postcard view!

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  6. wow thats beautiful photo! thanx for sharing with us it!!
    Luis

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  7. I really like that perspective, and the light is beautiful. Haven't had a good look down there since they finished the construction.

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  8. That really is such a beautiful busy view.

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  9. Oh, and the manger scene is in the courtyard? I remember a girls choir singing carols there.

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  10. What a beautiful church and the color of the sandstone makes it look like a happy place rather than a serious place. It's in such a nice setting.

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  11. What beautiful light on that cathedral! It really stands out amongst the newer buildings.

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