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Sun-Seeker β The Lady and the Star
Published: 2006-10-25 10:22:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 726; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 5
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She gettin on, she's ageing gracefully and she's ours all ours!Related content
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This is my absolute favourite favourite favourite of all your shots! And I do actually like a lot of your stuff, as you've probably noticed by my faving spree, so to say. But I absolutely adore this pic!
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Thanx dini... I think its a gentle almost femine shot somehow.... hard to put into words. Glad you liked it!
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I love it!!! 
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this is my favorite of yours. great job with the shutter speed. this should so be a print!
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Thanx Harlan ... its a fav of mine too only for the mood and the unusual viewpoint... must go back to the harbour this weekend.. thanks for the reminder!
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And still you can come up with an image of her I have never seen before.
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Its a challenge.. and I was up to it.. next one will be from a canoe!
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Beautiful shot!
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Beautiful shot!
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I love how the water looks like a satin ribbon, so smoooth...I went to the opera one night I saw um...um, oh yeah "Othello"....I have to say I hated every minute of it...It sounded like my Grandfather singing in the shower...yeah, Im a philistine, i know. I much prefer female operatic voices, but I do like some of the Alto' mens registers...particularly the guy who sings in Cirque du Soleil, La Nouba
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I did enjoy the Opera Idol comp on the ABC just finished but I'll be more of a Philli than you, even the three tenours leaves me cold but the cameo Pavarotis did on the U2 song Saravevo.. gace me goosebumps! Thanx as always for the comments!
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Long live the Queen! : ) (with the Queen being the OH of course! ). Very nice mood, love the composition: even though the OH is not too large in the photo, it takes over, with the moon, the entire scene!
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Thanx
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She's gorgeous!
You've captured her beautifully.
Did you see her when she was lit up in pink? My sister climbed the bridge the following night for her 21st birthday and said it wasn't pink when she climbed but other buildings were. Have you climbed the bridge?
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Thanx Mel... no .. like U I don't venture into the city as often as I should... you comming in for the Dev meet this Sat? Meet up with me!
Central to Glebe market!
Haven't climbed the bridge either.. fear of rivets!
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I didn't even know about it. I would if I could. Sorry. Maybe for the next one. Usually I have to plan things like this in advance lol. The joys of being disabled! Especially when public transport is against you.
I would love to climb the bridge. I've been under it and on it, so I suppose the only way to go over it is fly lol.
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U could fly under it! add these guys to your watch list.. and if you ever want I could meet you at sutho station and drive you to the meet.... next time.. as long as I'm in town. How do you get off a train with that gap?? Sure you don't want me to send you that murerball DVD.. its getting dusty!
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I have to tell the station master where I'm going and what train I'll be on in which compartment, he then radio's through the station I'll be arriving at with those details and they help me on and off with a special ramp. Unfortunately not every station is wheelchair friendly, and only one or two is accessible down here in Wollongong, and it's a hike to get to lol. That's why I have to plan in advanced.
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Wow... have you ever gone to another Sate because the system failed you? What if someones travelling with you... easier I guess.
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No I haven't travelled that far before. Usually I have to have someone with me, and I hate that I have to lug someone with me who doesn't always want to be there lol.
But I rarely travel on trains these days. I do drive but I can't get my big electric chair in the car, and it's the chair that makes me independent.
Oh well. You take the bad with the bad most of the time LOL.
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Those be some super smooth curves! Very sexy our lady is. Nice job dude.
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nice shot...
i love the opera house.. its close to home for me as my grandfather was a construction worker for 17 yrs on it...
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Thats a cool story... hey I'm street shooting a couple of goth models I know in Enmore on Sunday am early ( 9am daylightsavings) and I'd like some backup.. interested? No pressure but I'm a landscape fotographer doing people for the first time....
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yeah you mentioned this to me before.. im alwayz put for a shoot!
im actually comissioned this sunday to shoot a mates makeup portfolio this sunday!
1st time dabing in studio lighting and stuff.. and people too!! looks like its a 1st time for both of us because im more of a landscape photographer too hehehe.. ive gone out and purchased lamps n stuff.. a real cheap setup.. but hopefully it works!!
goodluck with your shoot this sunday.. post up some pics
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I will and break a leg on yours!
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If post work was done on this shot then you did an excellent job of it...the sails look luminous and the water and sky like black silk.
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Nah.. just a crop... the luminousi$^$^ comes from the loooooong exposure I'd guess. Black silk skys is very poetic! Thanx muchly
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She's not mine...sadly. But I do find her to be beautiful and magnificant, even having never seen her at first hand.
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You've plenty of time for a visit one day Kate... she's not going anywhere soon
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hehe, I would LOVE to visit. As soon as I save up the dosh
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No its OK.. we use dollars like the rest of George Bushes world.. we phased out the Dosh around the time of the Vietnam war!
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xP hehe, fine, all slang removed - I will visit as soon as I save up the desirable amount of monies...i mean, money.
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one of my favourite places I have taken photos of. I got the chance to see an operetta there and afterwards I walked along Circular Quay and around to the otherside where I belive you took this picture (or..maybe it was a bit further away...meh, dunno). It's really a very cool building. Kudos.
Also, doesn't work in full view for some reason....weird.
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Hmmm mine goes big and small? Its a great place for an evening stroll.. Paris got nothin of the quay!
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lol, i do love the quay...but I could actually live in Paris...couldn't live in Sydney...not practical...Melbourne however...now there's a city
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Aha! Going there in Dec for a flying visit.I'll let you know what I think!
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quality.
positioning/composition is fantastic! for an object that has been photographed soo much, it is original. love the fade out aspect of it.
(oops... called her an object)
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She'll bitch slap you into Sunday for that objectifiction! Thanx for the comment.. the fade out thingo was a good thing to point out.. did you read my journal interview... if not I suggest you take a peak!
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read half of it (missed the middle).
i'll go back and fill in the gaps.
(love that you have a working journal like that)
we need more of it.
tightens the community more
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Scoop for you.... Gilad has agreed to be interviewed!
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I have about 100 words to write this evening to him. Might be a week or two.
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ahh.. very cool !
8wants to visit sydney one day*
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We're here just waiting.. thanx m8
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very nice . i haven't seen many night shots of the opera house.
how old is she??!!!!
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Thanx try a cut and paste...
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Opera House from the harbour
Photograph courtesy of Andrew Watt
Sydney Opera House must be one of the most recognisable images of the modern world - up there with the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building - and one of the most photographed.
Not only is it recognisable, it has come to represent 'Australia'.
Although only having been open since 1973, it is as representative of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt and the Coliseum of Rome.
The Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point, which reaches out into the harbour. The skyline of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House, viewed from a ferry or from the air, is dramatic and unforgettable.
Ironic, perhaps, that this Australian icon - the Opera House with a roof evocative of a ship at full sail - was designed by renowned Danish architect - Jorn Utzon.
In the late 1950s the New South Wales (NSW) Government established an appeal fund to finance the construction of the Sydney Opera House, and conducted a competition for its design.
Utzon's design was chosen. The irony was that his design was, arguably, beyond the capabilities of engineering of the time. Utzon spent a couple of years reworking the design and it was 1961 before he had solved the problem of how to build the distinguishing feature - the 'sails' of the roof.
The venture experienced cost blow-outs and there were occasions when the NSW Government was tempted to call a halt. In 1966 the situation - with arguments about cost and the interior design, and the Government withholding progress payments - reached crisis point and Jorn Utzon resigned from the project. The building was eventually completed by others in 1973. After more than 30 years, the Sydney Opera House has its first interior designed by Utzon. The Utzon Room, a transformed reception hall that brings to life Jorn Utzon's original vision for his masterpiece, was officially opened on September 16 2004.
Sydney Opera House facts and figures
The Sydney Opera house:
Was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon
Was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 20 October 1973
Presented, as its first performance, The Australian Opera's production of War and Peace by Prokofiev
Cost $AU 102,000,000 to build
Conducts 3000 events each year
Provides guided tours to 200,000 people each year
Has an annual audience of 2 million for its performances
Includes 1000 rooms
Is 185 metres long and 120 metres wide
Has 2194 pre-cast concrete sections as its roof
Has roof sections weighing up to 15 tons
Has roof sections held together by 350 kms of tensioned steel cable
Has over 1 million tiles on the roof
Uses 6225 square metres of glass and 645 kilometres of electric cable
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