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 collection of Urban Landscapes is drawn from a larger body of work called Darkscapes. They are moody evocative invitations into mystery and imagination taken from the ordinary things that make up the fabric of city life. Beauty is all around us if only we take the time to notice it. We all look but maybe we don’t all see. This collection of images is a way for me to share what I see with others / This striking Deco building is close to Hyde Park.There are not very many like it left and I am very taken with its graceful lines. / . /
This collection of Urban Landscapes is drawn from a larger body of work called Darkscapes. They are moody evocative invitations into mystery and imagination taken from the ordinary things that make up the fabric of city life. Beauty is all around us if only we take the time to notice it. We all look but maybe we don’t all see. This collection of images is a way for me to share what I see with others. Some years back I was short listed for a Sculpture commission at the new Green Square Railway station. I didn’t in the end win the commission but I did get to walk up the tunnels before any trains traveled though the station. This is one of the many photo’s I took. This is a companion image to the Urban Landscape#28 taken underneath Green Square station a couple of years ago before the trains started to use the lines. Walking up these tracks was a truly amazing experience.
This is another shot that I took on the 5th of May as part of the 24 hours of flickr. It is the shot of Australias own (or better my own, since it is in my backyard) Hills Hoist that was prominently featured at the 200 Olympics Opening Ceremony. / And now I have to learn that it was not even an Australian Invention: Taken from Wikipedia: / “The Hills Hoist is an Australian version of the rotary clothes line, the distinguishing feature of which is a crown and pinion winding mechanism invented by Adelaide based Lance Hill in 1945. This allows this clothesline to be lowered and raised. The rotary clothes line itself had been invented as early as 1855, diagrams of which were published in Scientific American that year. This style of clothes line was popularised in Australia by Lance Hill and is a common sight in Australian and New Zealand backyards. It is considered one of Australia’s most recognisable icons, and is used frequently by artists as a metaphor for suburbia in Australia. For many post-war baby boomers it is a symbol of their childhood and an Australian national icon. / It is widely (and incorrectly) believed by the public to be an Australian invention.However, other Australian and American precursors existed decades before it was produced in 1945 in the Adelaide suburb of Glenunga by Lance Hill.” Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers and Thanks, Alex
This work has been featured in the recent redbubble book The City . “The Big Smoke” also was announced the winner of the Breaking the Rules V: Straight vs Crooked Challenge in the Photography 101 Group Looking at the Sydney CBD from the rooftop parking at Broadway Shopping Centre. In the distance you can see the smoke coming in from backburning operations on the north side of the City. Please also visit my website alexkess.com . Cheers and Thanks, Alex
This is a not so dramatic version of “Big Smoke” Still like it for all the textures and detail in the buildings and the smoke… Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers and Thanks,
Sorry for not posting many shots over the past few weeks and not leaving any replies. I have been really busy with work and work around the house. I can tell you the past few days have been the worst choice to do some work around the Garden. Anyway here are two HDR – Sunrise shots from a few weeks ago taken from Victoria Road near the old White Bay Power Station. I hope you like it. Please also visit my website alexkess.com and my photoblog . Cheers and Thanks, Alex
I love shooting at night, and generally am out alone when I’m shooting – it’s when I produce my best work (in my mind anyway). / / This is one of my favorite places in the city. You can sit here alone for hours, traffic streaming past, only the occasional pedestrian, while hundreds, or even thousands of people are just a few feet below. It’s both a quiet spot to find refuge, and a place that symbolizes the loneliness and isolation that can be experienced in a city of millions. © Sara Lamond 2007. All rights reserved. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
Sydney, AU. 2007
A summer afternoon downpour in the city. The streets washed clean, then it clears as soon as it came. More Sydney ...
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I lived in Australia for a year as do all backpacking Irish guys and for 7months of that year I lived here in Cardigan street, No.78. I lived with Matt, Michelle and Michelle and of course mad bad Jason also Adrian, English Gav and some other bloke whose name escapes me, Dando the dog god rest his soul, the sisters of Michelle L., Lily and Eda who visited with food from somewhere after they had a day working in Glebe market or not. The band I remember that the household liked, amongst numerous others was You Am I and we saw them in the Annandale as well as Skunk Anansie. I went home via Los Angeles and New York and 6 months later another Philip from Dublin had moved in. He turned out to be my classmate from a DTP course we did together in Dublin City. He told me himself in Hogans Bar Dublin in 1998. F…ing small world man! / This is Michelle on the classic smashed up house share sofa, which was not brown.
A mixture of horizontal lines and textures in Sydney Road Melbourne / 13.4.08
Taken on the stairs of the Opera House, Sydney Australia.
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This was taken in The Rocks in Sydney.
Image taken on the 21st August 2008, he was giving away hugs I was there for 30 minutes and so many people hugged him. (shhhh I didn’t give him a hug). Pitt street mall Sydney. Little did I know that I was photographing a small piece of history have a look at the link below (thanks Imagematrix for bringing this to my attention) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4 Canon EOS 450D
King Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia. Outside the Sandringham Hotel. Featured in Australia! You’re standing in it… 5 June 09. / Featured on the Home Page 19/20 May 09.
For the next month (from May 27th onwards) I’m asking people not to leave a comment on my work here. Rather, if you would like to support the work that I do please either leave a comment or upload an image here I can live without comments but homophobia needs your voices Many thanks / Robert Museum Station tunnel, Sydney. There is a moving mural here which looks like smoke or water behind perspex. Stunning backdrop.
Best viewed large A Sydney tunnel, underground street, passages within passages – this one is flanked with moving ‘water’ or ‘bue smoke’ murals. All created in camera.
Taken on King Street, in Newtown, Sydney. / Scan from colour negative film.
I stumbled across these guys the other night. / They said they were Dave (right) & Johnny (left). / They said, ‘Take our picture’. / I said, ‘Ok…but don’t I know you….?’ From the Dave and Johnny chronicles. This one best viewed large Thanks Ben (‘Dave’) and Barry (‘Johnny’). You guys are stars – don’t you know it?
For the next month (from May 27th onwards) I’m asking people not to leave a comment on my work here. Rather, if you would like to support the work that I do please either leave a comment or upload an image here I can live without comments but homophobia needs your voices Many thanks / Robert Young gay love – oblivious to the streets of Sydney From the Dave and Johnny chronicles. Best viewed large.
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