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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Helene Kippert
I do Juilee – nice work!
Juilee Pryor
Thanks Helene.:)
Paul Vanzella
Yeah – this works really well. I love the hood ornament idea!
narellec
This is so coooolll
funkyfacestudio
very cool and creative!!
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
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
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
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
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
Ha! Well done. Love it!
Juilee Pryor
Thanks fracturedfotos, getting feedback from talent like you is a wonderful thing :)
Benjamin Scheurer
sensational shadowplay there…love how the roof forms a line with her back!
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
love this shot Juilee
Juilee Pryor
Thanks Jessica, a compliment from you is great. Your own work is so fabulous. :)
Miss Misery
wow another corker
Jen Cannella
Love this shot. Great job!
Juilee Pryor
Thanks Pete and niffer I’m so please you all like this funny old picture of mine :)
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
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
now that is a hood ornament!!
nice and wacky
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
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
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
Brilliant work well done .!
ltruskett
gorgeous, you clever girl.
pauldrobertson
soooooooo cool. love it.
Alan Findlater
nice idea creative
Mel Brackstone
Very clever work
Colin Tobin
Amazing photo.
So creative.
Juilee Pryor
wow thanks everybody. this is one of my sentimental favorites so its great that so many others like it too.
HarbourCityCards
this is really stunning. a real original image. so good. I just love it to bits
Judith Oppenhe...
very cool
Lou Green
love this – sometimes these ‘finishing off the film’ shots are the best …this one really works
Juilee Pryor
thanks lou I agree its like everybody relaxes and then you get the one off shots that really make it.
tellingstories
i really love this
Juilee Pryor
Thanks Veronica :)
BySilent
Looks great… could even be a new Olympic event.. Hood Diving?... Excellent work
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
Very very cool!
Juilee Pryor
thanks David. I think she’s pretty cool as well.
Jennifer Barbour
hi love this, great composition, interesting picture!
Juilee Pryor
thanks Jennifer. its an oldie but a goldie :)
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
thanks bernt2 this is one of my lighter images.
alistair mcbride
Classic,like the location,its just a great shot.
Juilee Pryor
thanks alistair :)
salsbells69
Its a very cool shot..love it! B&W gives it alot of character too..well done..~!
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
Has a really nice feel to it
anthonymc
Very clever Juilee, well done.
Juilee Pryor
thanks anthony and shane so glad you like this photo. :)
Ange
brilliant shot juilee
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Ange….. its an oldie but a goldie….:)
Jeremy Harrington
this is great.. very nice work Juilee!
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Jeremy I’m glad you like her…..:)
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
Great Hood Ornament!!!!
Juilee Pryor
haha yes I agree…. good hood ornament…....:)
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
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
Image is full of life and movement.
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks heaps Ben….. she’s a great hood ornament hey…...:)
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
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
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
wow very unique!!!!! excellent work!!!
dinghysailor1
great fun!
Joaquin Loyzaga
great work!
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.
fantastic
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Kenny …... you make me smile…..:)
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
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
Most definately been my pleasure
Juilee Pryor replied
why thank you kind sir…... :)
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
:) great shot!
Juilee Pryor replied
hi pene and thanks heaps for see the humour in this…..:)
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
Great image, love the black and white
Juilee Pryor replied
hi madworld and thanks… she’s a beauty hey…. great hood ornament…..:)
Leonardo Amaro...
very nice !
Juilee Pryor replied
hello Leonardo and thanks heaps….:)
LeighN
Great image Juilee!
LeighN
Featured in Sydney’s Inner West groupJuilee 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 ….. :)