Spirit of Sydney

Juilee  Pryor

Spirit of Sydney

This is a rather old image from the bottom of my big box of negatives that I’m slowly converting to digital files. I had been out on a fashion shoot and at the end of it I found I had 2 frames left. So on the way home with the model I stopped in at Graffitti Hall of Fame in Alexandria which is one of the inner city suburbs of Sydney.

In this digital age its hard to imagine having faith in taking a good picture with only two goes at it but there you are! I got the model on to the roller and shot one from the front and with the very last frame shot this one. I hope you like it as much as I do. :)

This is what it looks like framed

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Spirit of Sydney by Juilee  Pryor
Spirit of Sydney by Juilee  Pryor
  • Helene Kippert

    Helene Kippert

    I do Juilee – nice work!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks Helene.:)

  • Paul Vanzella

    Paul Vanzellafounder

    Yeah – this works really well. I love the hood ornament idea!

  • narellec

    narellec

    This is so coooolll

  • funkyfacestudio

    funkyfacestudio

    very cool and creative!!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thank you everybody for having a look a my little winged sprite. I think she’s pretty cute and its nice to know that others like her too!

  • Bruce  Watson

    Bruce Watson

    Nuthin’ ‘negative’ about this! Good depth and shadows, with a vaguely ‘alt. circus’ kind of feel. keep rummaging through those boxes if this is an example.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks Manotron. I like your comment. I love to make positive things out of negative like this shot. And yes I do believe that I will take your advice and keep working from the endless box of negatives :)

  • Rany Lutz

    Rany Lutz

    Julie, if everyone in Sydney has this level of spirit, it must be a fantastic city to visit!!!!!

    Also I want to thank you for your visit to my gallery and your very gracious comments.

    Cheers, Rany

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Hey Rany , Sydney is a great and very spirtied place to be and not only is it a great place to visit, its a really great place to live!

  • fracturedfotos

    fracturedfotos

    Ha! Well done. Love it!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks fracturedfotos, getting feedback from talent like you is a wonderful thing :)

  • Benjamin Scheurer

    Benjamin Scheurer

    sensational shadowplay there…love how the roof forms a line with her back!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Hi Benjamin, thanks for your comments. If you really look at the image you will see that not only does the roof form a line with her back but the saxaphone is coming out of her bottom :0

    lucky for me people don’t either notice or mind, which ever its all fine by me.

  • Jessica  Tremp

    Jessica Tremp

    love this shot Juilee

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks Jessica, a compliment from you is great. Your own work is so fabulous. :)

  • Miss Misery

    Miss Misery

    wow another corker

  • Jen Cannella

    Jen Cannella

    Love this shot. Great job!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks Pete and niffer I’m so please you all like this funny old picture of mine :)

  • Rich Gale

    Rich Gale

    just love this did you ask permission from the owner!!!!!, its a great image somtimes things just work and you don’t need to shoot 100 hundred images to get it right.
    Well done
    Rich.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Hi Rich, thanks for looking at my work. Yes the owner of the Roller is a mate of mine. The other roller that the model is not standing on belongs to his sister. One’s a silver cloud and the other is a corniche ….. I think. Both cars are gold in colour. At the time I was driving a very battered old holden v8 station wagon and amazingly Tony the owner of the car would take my car out to hoon around in. And he loved this picture. Arn’t friends great!

  • peter kelly

    peter kelly

    now that is a hood ornament!!

    nice and wacky

  • valentinebrovko

    valentinebrovko

    i wish this was reality. i wish that instead of shiny metal figurines attached to the hoods of expencive cars people gallatly soared in their place. maybe something like that aeroplane wing walking people.

  • valentinebrovko

    valentinebrovko

    ps. i had a peek at your disaster serie. at first glance it looks like something very intreguing. i will have a closer look at it later…

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Hi valentine thanks for looking at my work. By the disaster series I think that you must mean the After the Flood series. I’ve just exhibited that series of work. I had them as A1 size enlargements and they went down really well. Very strong series of work. Thanks again.

  • googa

    googa

    Brilliant work well done .!

  • ltruskett

    ltruskett

    gorgeous, you clever girl.

  • pauldrobertson

    pauldrobertson

    soooooooo cool. love it.

  • Alan Findlater

    Alan Findlater

    nice idea creative

  • Mel Brackstone

    Mel Brackstone

    Very clever work

  • Colin Tobin

    Colin Tobin

    Amazing photo.
    So creative.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    wow thanks everybody. this is one of my sentimental favorites so its great that so many others like it too.

  • HarbourCityCards

    HarbourCityCards

    this is really stunning. a real original image. so good. I just love it to bits

  • Judith Oppenheimer

    Judith Oppenhe...

    very cool

  • Lou Green

    Lou Green

    love this – sometimes these ‘finishing off the film’ shots are the best …this one really works

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks lou I agree its like everybody relaxes and then you get the one off shots that really make it.

  • tellingstories

    tellingstories

    i really love this

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    Thanks Veronica :)

  • BySilent

    BySilent

    Looks great… could even be a new Olympic event.. Hood Diving?... Excellent work

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    woah an olympic sport in hood diving. I’m up for that no sweat. the boys could dive of really big trucks :)

  • David Harris

    David Harris

    Very very cool!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks David. I think she’s pretty cool as well.

  • Jennifer Barbour

    Jennifer Barbour

    hi love this, great composition, interesting picture!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks Jennifer. its an oldie but a goldie :)

  • berndt2

    berndt2

    Very cool composition- it looks great framed, as it really highlights the shape of the model’s pose and accentuates the very effective vignetting, and transition from foreground to background via the gently light-ening concrete surface.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks bernt2 this is one of my lighter images.

  • alistair mcbride

    alistair mcbride

    Classic,like the location,its just a great shot.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks alistair :)

  • salsbells69

    salsbells69

    Its a very cool shot..love it! B&W gives it alot of character too..well done..~!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks salsabelle69 I’m so glad you like it. and it really is the spirit of sydney. give me a matched pair of gold rollers and watch me stand on them :)

  • Shane Huckaby

    Shane Huckaby

    Has a really nice feel to it

  • anthonymc

    anthonymc

    Very clever Juilee, well done.

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    thanks anthony and shane so glad you like this photo. :)

  • Ange

    Ange

    brilliant shot juilee

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks Ange….. its an oldie but a goldie….:)

  • Jeremy Harrington

    Jeremy Harrington

    this is great.. very nice work Juilee!

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks Jeremy I’m glad you like her…..:)

  • Rosina  Lamberti

    Rosina Lamberti

    You have such a great eye! Perfect title, the light is awesome!

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks heaps for your comment Rosina…. the eye is the eye…. we all look but we don’t all see….. so glad you like it…....

  • Rod  Adams

    Rod Adams

    Great Hood Ornament!!!!

  • Juilee  Pryor

    Juilee Pryor

    haha yes I agree…. good hood ornament…....:)

  • butchart

    butchart

    headed out on a 600 mile road trip later..how’d ya know? are you in my mind?

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hey there butch…. are you in my mind or am I in your mind….. can’t tell any more…. imagine if you were driving along with this buxom wench on your hood …...OMG what looks you would get hey…...

    na she is how I feel some times…..like a winged sprite ready to take off into the future…... the spirit of sydney…. no joke this is what its like here…...:)

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    oh and have a really wonderful road trip….. don’t go doing a thelma and louise on me now…... :)

  • butchart

    butchart

    i’d poudly go where no man’s gone b4 with that buxom wench on my hood…... actually not leaving until tomorrow,,,,, tennis tourny i attend every year..womens….. go serena williams…. go all of them actually… beautiful athletes to watch.. their bodies are sublime…. and a chance to spend time with the ex of 20 yrs…...... anyways.. you have to put up with me about 20 more hours…. kisses

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    :) I’ll be thinking of you sweet man

  • Ben Herman

    Ben Herman

    Image is full of life and movement.

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks heaps Ben….. she’s a great hood ornament hey…...:)

  • melodious

    melodious

    This is awesome Juilee!

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hey thanks melodious….... I’ve always liked having friends with rollers that let me drape them with bosumy young ladies for the purpose of taking photo’s…..so glad you like her…....:)

  • Nick Milton

    Nick Milton

    nice idea, (i have an angel if you want one?)

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hey thanks Nick…. its not my car….. that would be in the daydreaming stakes…. it belonged to a friend of mine and he was always getting the angel nicked from it…..... I had an old holden v8 station wagon once and glued a big plastic dinosaur on the hood….. that was way cool…...:)

  • Nick Milton

    Nick Milton

    I dint nick mine,i used to have a rr silver shadow as a wedding business car in uk, had a spare angel,thats all i could afford to keep,still got it,might buy the rest one day (haha)

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    sounds about right then…..this guy had just had the latest angel nicked of the car and was going on about it so much and that’s where the idea for the photo came from….. the girl had been modeling for me that day and I literally had like two frames of film left over and went over to his place to replace his angel for him….... he laughed and loved the photo…... so who ever nicked the little winged sprite actually did something that ended up being good in a wider context….. funny thing that…..

  • PPPhotoArt

    PPPhotoArt

    wow very unique!!!!! excellent work!!!

  • dinghysailor1

    dinghysailor1

    great fun!

  • Joaquin Loyzaga

    Joaquin Loyzaga

    great work!

  • Peter Hill

    Peter Hill

    And the other photo?

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    and the other photo…... is not as good as this one…. no drama….more cleavage but no drama…... sorry I’m only posting this one…..:)

  • Kenny Gulley Jr.

    Kenny Gulley Jr.

    fantastic

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks Kenny …... you make me smile…..:)

  • AndyGii

    AndyGii

    This is great work and is everything I’ve looked at in your portfolio

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    why thanks heaps for that wonderful compliment….. I am pretty serious about good photos…... even if some of them are a bit ‘out there’ ....... I like to experiment as well with different cameras and tecniques…..... thanks for having a look at my work…....:)

  • AndyGii

    AndyGii

    I like out vthere. Just wish I had your finesse

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    thanks Andy….. I draw well so I’m thinking it may have something to do with the way I see things…... not sure about finesse….. more of a fussy eccentric with a dead eye for shapes and forms….. your compliments are making a slow cold day much more worthwhile and uplifting….. can’t thank you enough for that….....:)

  • AndyGii

    AndyGii

    Most definately been my pleasure

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    why thank you kind sir…... :)

  • Peta Ridley

    Peta Ridley

    I love your Sydney shots Juilee…does the Graffiti Hall of Fame still exist? I used to go to raves there, back in the day…

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hi Peta sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you… the Graffitti Hall of Fame is sadly long gone now… it’s all expensive apartments now I fear…. but at least I have some fab photo’s from that time…. it really did rock on back in the day hey…. and yes I remember the raves there…. how cool was that place hey…..:)

  • pene

    pene

    :) great shot!

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hi pene and thanks heaps for see the humour in this…..:)

  • KiwiAna

    KiwiAna

    Fantastic!

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hi KiwiAna…. and thanks heaps…. it’s just for fun this shot but she really had some style this girl… makes a way cool hood ornament hey…..:)

  • madworld

    madworld

    Great image, love the black and white

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hi madworld and thanks… she’s a beauty hey…. great hood ornament…..:)

  • Leonardo Amaro  Rodrigues

    Leonardo Amaro...

    very nice !

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    hello Leonardo and thanks heaps….:)

  • LeighN

    LeighN

    Great image Juilee!

  • LeighN

    LeighN

    Featured in Sydney’s Inner West group

  • Juilee Pryor replied

    woo hoo! that’s great Leigh… this girl really is the spirit of the inner west…. and the inner west is one of the yummiest funnest most exciting bits of Sydney….. thanks ….. :)

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