Sunrise Wollongong Harbour

Bondi sunrise

Every year I like to visit the Sculpture By The Sea exhibition in the early hours of the morning before there are many people there. SBTS started on this past weekend and continues for the next two weeks. Over the next little while, I'll be bringing you some of the pieces on display.

If you are in Sydney, it's a great, free exhibition, located along the cliff walkway and between South Bondi (it begins just after Bondi Icebergs club) and Tamarama, and on Tamarama Beach.

Another pic from sunrise last Friday.

Two days later (Skywatch Friday)

These photos were taken two days after the dust storm, at exactly the same time (6am) and place. Scroll through the past two days to see the dust storm effect.



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Dust!

Photo above: From Towers St, Arncliffe at 6am this morning.
Photo One below: 3:40 pm 8 June 2009
Photo two below: 7:10am 25 June 2009

This morning there are gale force winds and Sydney is enveloped in the most incredible red dust blanket. When I heard about it I jumped in the car and went out to photograph the view from the same vantage point as the pics below which I blogged recently. This was AFTER sunrise. The dust is blowing across the continent from the centre to the east.

It is like a glowing red fog, but I can feel dust in every breath.

Ferries have been suspended, road tunnels are closed, flights are delayed from the airport. Our bathroom has a skylight - the bath tub has a layer of red dust lining it.

The tragedy is, this is Australia's topsoil - a very limited resource as it is, with our ancient, thin soils.

City from Towers Street Arncliffe (Skywatch Friday)

This is the view over the inner southern suburbs towards the city, from near my house (I don't have a view, unfortunately). Overseas visitors have commented to me that they are surprised at how green Sydney is. I don;t quite know what their image of Sydney is, but it gets a fair amount of rainfall, and I guess compared to some cities I've visited, there are a lot of trees, and parks. You can see more recent apartment developments, but much of Sydney's population still lives in Single dwellings, with backyards.

Have you ever been surprised by preconceptions visitors hold of your city?

Below: The same view at sunrise yesterday:


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Exercise with a view, Bondi

This woman stopped on her early morning run long enough to contemplate sunrise over the Pacific Ocean at Bondi. Although in complete shadow now, it would be interesting to spend the day there documenting how the shadow shifts.

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Nexus (Sculpture By The Sea 18)

It's Skywatch Friday (see below) and it's my birthday, so I'm showing my favourite entry in Sculpture By The Sea this year.

Nexus is by Alex Kosmas. This is a beautifully delicate work in the most exquisite shade of green (I've included one pic below where the colour of this work in bronze shows up against the sandstone). It just made my heart sing, and on both occasions I was there I was so pleased I went at dawn (one grey, one colourful) because I could spend ages alone with it.

The artist says: " The fast paced world forgets its connection to nature. 'Nexus' represents our lifeboat." If I had $50 000 I would buy it, but then I think I'd need another few million to build a house around it!

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Television Within, Television Without (Sculpture By The Sea 12)

Dawn at Marks Park, midway between Tamarama and Bondi. My first "Skywatch Friday" entry.

Mark Wotherspoon, the creator of Television within, television without says: "This work is about the role television is playing in our daily lives, and in particular its effects on children. A child gazing away from the television - towards the imagination."

It is made from recycled television glass and stainless steel.

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Sunrise over Jimmy's Island, Rosedale

Up early again today, so I wandered down to the beach before sunrise. I wasn't the only one there! There's a whole sequence of this sunrise here.

Early morning surfer, cloudy morning, Broulee

To all my Daily Photo friends: Sorry if I can't visit you as often as I'd like . Am on a very slow dial-up connection while on holidays. I appreciate your continued visits to my 'holiday site' and hope you are enjoying being on a typical Sydney-sider's summer beach holiday.

Sunrise II, Botany Bay

Sunrise over Botany Bay, 5:59 am, Thursday 23 November 2006

I took this photo 4 minutes after the one I posted yesterday, and as today was overcast at sunrise, I thought it might be nice to have another look at this one! I love the gold shine to everything. This is exactly how it was - no touch-ups to the photo.

Tomorrow I'm going to have a little bit more to say about the "rising sun" in a couple of Australian cultural contexts - the military, and architecture, so stay tuned!

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Pelican sunrise

Sunrise over Botany Bay 5:55am Thursday 23 November