Most of my lunchtime photographs are focused on people of Sydney. However, today I have captured another aspect of this city. Here is a mixture of functional architecture combined with people spaces and beautiful autumn foliage.
I have entered St. Andrews cathedral recently and stood there very bewildered for a long while. There were LCD monitors installed on the cathedral columns. It felt so wrong. I know its 21st century and technology is everywhere but somehow these plastic LCD monitors installed on the sandstone columns looked ugly and out of place.
Sydney and Australia in general does not have a lot of old buildings. This is after all a very young country. So, scaring the very few buildings that are of historical and cultural significance with perhaps useful but otherwise ugly modern items, seems, well for a better word sacrilegious.
Have you ever wondered why Australia is referred to as the land Down Under. Wonder no more as this photograph clearly revels the reason: we have everything upside down.
Sydney Tower as seen through the transparent roof of the shopping arcade at the corner of Pitt and King Streets.
I have met a mystery photographer today in Sydney. A lady in late 40s perhaps early 50s was photographing MLC building both from the outside and the inside. She even had to explain to security what she was doing as they were concerned over the building copyrights.
I have approached her and introduced myself while showing her this photograph. She was photographing the same space as I was and I can guess she will have me in her frame positioned exactly the same as she was here. She said she likes photographing architecture and that she is an exhibited photographer but would not disclose her identity.
Back to may favourite form of photography - street candids. And again a rediscover of a well known landmark in Sydney. I have passed this place on many occasions and have never noticed the framework it creates for a portrait just like this. A strong urban image / portrait with overwhelming and over sized architectural elements with a small human form.
Isn’t it curious how old buildings reflect well in the new ones and yet the opposite is seldom true?
Here are two examples of Queen Victoria Building reflections on neighbouring buildings.
Simple bricks on one side and a magnificent creation of the architecture on the other.
Legacy - the text on this flag gave me the inspiration for this shot - the term was only too appropriate.
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