The Endeavour replica is senn here moored outside the Australian National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour.This view is from Pyrmont with the Sydney skyline in the background including Sydney Tower, King Street wharf, Wildlife World and Sydney Aquarium.
The Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge at sunset. This view across Sydney Harbour is from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.Click here to view thumbnails for all participants of this theme day.
This side view of the Sydney Town Hall is from York Street. In the bacground of this sandstone heritage bulding are contemorary skyscrapers the HSBC Centre on George Street and Lumiere in Bathurst Street. This view of the town hall is improved in Winter when the trees have dropped all their leaves.
The Sydney Opera House was illuminated for the Vivid Sydney festival which ran from the 27th May to the 13th June. The “Lighting the Sails” animations were created by a team from France called Superbien.
This artwork near the water’s edge of Campbells Cove at The Rocks, with a spectacular backdrop of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, was installed for the Vivid Sydney festival. “Ember”, created by Joe Snell was a 30 metre long glowing installation that pulsates between red and orange. It evokes the beauty of dying embers and the danger in the potential of an ’ember attack’ that is synonymous with Australian bush fires. It tantalises with its warm ambience on a winter’s night, drawing you closer to touch the glowing coals. It also doubled up as a bench for the audience of the Fire Dance performance every hour.
The historic Moore Stairs link Macquarie Street with the Circular Quay foreshore, between two blocks of Bennelong Apartments. “Hopscotch” by Germany’s Fiona Venn and Reinhard Germar was an interactive installation for the Vivid Sydney festival. People were able to hop up and down the stairs and create a rainbow at night that displayed the full colour spectrum of light from violet blue to deep red. Precise switching and the latest sensor technology saved energy by providing light only where it was needed but also proved a challenge to photograph as many colours as possible.
These light projections on Customs House at Circular Quay were displayed during the Vivid Sydney festival. “Unfamiliar Customs” was created by The Electric Canvas, transforming this sandstone building’s facade with a series of 3D-mapped animation sequences. The projections both celebrate and sometimes mock the iconic architecture in a playful creation reflecting its 160 years standing on the shore of Sydney Harbour.