This images is from a collection called ‘Urban Landscapes” which in turn is taken from a body of work called ‘Darkscapes’. I love the way seemingly ordinary things can be made to reveal a mysterious and powerful beauty. a companion image to Urban Landscape # 31 Operator! and / Urban Landscape # 8 Redfern Bus Stop!
This beautiful old building is located on Parramatta Road very close to Sydney Uni and Broadway. I love the graceful lines of the structure and am grateful that when it was done up and converted into luxury apartments that the exterior of the building was left untouched. The harsh lines of the windows cutting into the old signwriting make this a real visual treat and an icon on the way into to town. Taken with infrared film using a very low rent battered old analouge camera while standing on a dustbin in the servo over the other side of Parramatta road. Hope you like my building.
Just of Parramatta Road between Leichhardt and Glebe is this old building. I used to work in a little pottery there for a while and I walked past this lovely old building every day. There is a terrible need to convert all the old buildings to residential these days but once they would have been work places and the whole area being so close to the Harbour would have been semi industrial. I love the simplicity of the structure and the grace of its age. Taken with infrared film using a very old and battered analouge camera.
Photograph – from a series of photos. Details from the Kings Cross/Darlinghurst area, Sydney
An old sign found in the shed where The Broom was shot. What a treasure trove … / Landscapes Trees Cards EOD Rusty Flowers Architecture Macro CatchAll DM
With a heavy NE swell closing down most of the beaches along Australia’s East Coast over new year, not even the pools are safe. In a somewhat typical Aussie understatement, the sign at North Curl Curl pool on Sydney’s Northern Beaches says “Pool Closed, Dangerous Conditions” and that’s if you can get close enough to read it without being washed away. A new years day swim to shake out the NYE cobwebs from the previous night is pretty much out of the question. While I was there, there were some much bigger waves/sprays but this one was pretty solid and nicely balanced the image with the pool. There should probably also be a sign that says “Don’t stand so close to the pool taking photographs” or shoot telephoto from a distance rather than wideangle. But then what’s the fun in that? Although the two feet of water swirling around below me was a bit dicey at times.
An image from the February Sydney meet. Many thanks to Sarah Moore for her wonderful modeling skill in tight situations. / . / . / . / Please note:- when viewing larger, the watermark has no added meaning :-)
The tremedously talented docophoto just posted a splendid shot with a little tiny cameo of herself in a mirror in the background of the photo and it just looked so good….. and it put me in mind of a shot I had taken some time ago in the ladies loo at Circular Quay in Sydney… so what ever else you do today everybody….please don’t forget your valuable…....:) / . /
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Please view at full size. Old building being renovated as apartments. The sign does not go well with the tone of the posters on the right!!
Somewhere in Sydney. / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . / . /
Iron Cove Bridge / Action Website © Ben Herman 2008
Please leave a message and I’ll get back to you. Taken in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney.
The Elizabeth Street entrance of St James Station in Sydney has been maintained in its original condition as a heritage site with the neon Château Tanunda sign dated at c1938. One of the first underground stations in / Australia adapting the style of the British tube station. / galleria mancuso / galleria mancuso – images of mine, the book / my calendar series / Nikon D80, 1/15sec hand held, f/6.3, ISO 250 /
just a random snap of a graffittied Stop sign in one the tiny tangled back streets in Newtown…. and it makes a lot of sense to me…. if we all stopped driving so much it might have an impact on climate change….. and it’s climate change that is behind the blinding fury of the devasting holcoust of fire that is laying waste to most of Victoria at the moment…. so this is my thought for the day…. please if your just going down to the shops for some milk and suchlike… how about you just walk instead…. ?
this is another random inner city snapshot to go with the shot I just put up called… thought for the day…. stop driving when you are meandering about the place taking a few photo’s …. remember there is always someone watching you…. always…. even if it’s just a face on a wall somewhere…. we are never invisible… always there will be eyes on you…..
The old signage on the front of a building in the Rocks area in Sydney. An high dynamic range image of 3 merged images taken with an AEB of 3.
This shop has been there for a while. Looking on the signs and ad stands I would make a guess it is in business for 40 years or more at the same address. The inside is even more impressive. Space there is highly organized. You would not find a little square of surface being empty for no reason. Most of the wall shelving is filled with sewing accessories: needles, threads, bobbins, foot attachments, lubricants, manuals, cables. Floor and stairs are orderly covered with machines of different brands, years of manufacture, sizes and, I suppose, prices. In between there are walking paths wide enough to fit a single person. If there are 2 people on a path, one of them will need to get in a small pocket to allow other one to pass. / Gentleman sitting outside near Singer is waiting for his sewing machine to be repaired. Tonemapped HDR out of a single RAW taken handheld. Location: Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia > featured in SHOPFRONTS (13-Aug-09) From my photoblog at http://www.bouncedphoton.com This print is available with 0% markup. Please enjoy and thank you for your visit!
The wide, smiling grin that is the entrance to Luna Park at Milsons Point in Sydney Canon 450 D SLR 3 images merged in Photomatix to create HDR image. / Post editing in Photoshop CS3
One evening few years ago I was walking at the Kings Cross suburb of Sydney. It was already dark, but a high-rise building above me did not have a single light in any of its 350 rooms. It was a somewhat scary to stand by this huge abandoned giant in a centre of the city. The sign on the top read “Millennium Hotel”. My mind started to picture apocalyptic stories about what might have happened to it in few years past the new millennium. I didn’t know that time that it was closed for the complete renovation. And here we go, $98m and few years later building is transformed into modern 37-storey Zenith Apartments tower. What a stunning view over the city it must be from its roof top. P.S. The Coca Cola Billboard is a character itself being the heritage-listed and largest billboard in the Southern Hemisphere. This is a vertical panorama or a vertorama as it is called sometimes. I took 2 sets of 3 AEB shots from a tripod (one centering on the Coke sign and another one for the top of the building). Those were later combined into a single HDR (4129×4720) and then tonemapped. Location: Darlinghurst Road, Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia > featured in HDR Photography (13-Sep-09) From my photoblog at http://www.bouncedphoton.com This print is available with 0% markup. Please enjoy and thank you for your visit!
I’ve been posting a few shots of graffitti just of late and now I’d thought I’d post a shot of some even older graf… of a type… some years back a really big building was demolished in the centre of the city to make way for an even bigger building to be constructed and while this was happening and just for a little while these two very old signs were revealed in all their faded glory … this shot was taken from the top of a tall multi story car parking station whilst hanging somewhat precarilously over the edge of the railing…. a bit dodgy but I just had to get the shot…. his master’s voice hey… that’s something you don’t see a lot of these days…. / . /
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