Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney
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Awesome captures, Jackson! I'm particularly intrigued by your shot of the cages/skateboarder/advertising shoot.
The other weekend I walked past a photo-shoot on Sumner beach, with a scantily-clad model disporting herself in the freezing-cold wind. She deserved whatever she got paid, not just for freezing to death, but also for doing her job while half of Chch sauntered past eating icecreams and walking their dogs. I wanted to take a picture, but it would have felt mean!
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They have a flyer warning of Stendhal Syndrome, and I really understood what they meant
Wow.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Cheers Lilith. It was a balmy 22 degrees in Sydney, so had no such qualms. ;-)
Was a strange scene to happen upon though.
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Jos,
The cage alley one is wonderful Jack!
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Lilith __, in reply to
must have cost a fortune for all the extras etc.
He's a jetsetting TV star now. With expensive taste in sofas.
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JacksonP, in reply to
With expensive taste in sofas.
As above.
Hope I haven't scared everyone off from posting photos on the Internets.
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Wallpaper art.
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Hebe, in reply to
Hope I haven't scared everyone off from posting photos on the Internets
Nope; too lazy to find the picture file, that's all. I do like the fountain. And the cages. And the twirling Krishnas. And the leaves. And the colonnade. All of it is good for my eyes today. Sorry, I can't join your fan club as I didn't watch the Show.
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Thought you Capture folk might like this bit of high-speed photography: Alan Rickman making tea at 3000 frames a second.
Some background here:
What you’re seeing here is about five to twelve seconds of footage slowed to seven minutes. This particular piece was displayed on the side of Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York City in July of 2011.
It's worth watching through. Something does happen. :-)
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JacksonP, in reply to
Thanks for comments Hebe.
And the colonnade.
I was going to call it that, but for some reason thought the archways changed it into something else, like an arcade or something. Anyway, I'll go with colonnade. Cheers.
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Lilith __, in reply to
an arcade
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind;from Francis Thompson, The Hound of Heaven
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Hebe, in reply to
I was going to call it that, but for some reason thought the archways changed it into something else, like an arcade or something. Anyway, I’ll go with colonnade.
Snap with the doubt. I opted for colonnade because it is such a lovely word :-) I think the columns make a colonnade, and if they don't they should.
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Lilith __, in reply to
I think the columns make a colonnade
Arches need columns to hold them up...
Maybe an arcade is a type of collonade? We could make a Venn diagram! :-) -
Nice pics JP. I should visit Sydney more often!!
Coffee amidst a colonnade. Melbourne's GPO.
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Hebe, in reply to
I should visit Sydney more often!!
I should visit Melbourne at least once! Everything I see of it attracts me.
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Julie Cross, in reply to
As above.
Is that, um, the $27,000 sofa in question?
Hebe, Melbourne is fantastic minus the weather. I lived there for three years, adored everything, except the weather.
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Hebe, in reply to
t the weather
What is a good time of year to visit? My impression is of a bigger, more sophisticated Wellington with a funky edge.
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Julie Cross, in reply to
more sophisticated Wellington with a funky edge
Spot on, and with lashings of European styling. It probably don't matter too much if you're just visiting... hotels, lane ways, funky bars, holes in the wall, tram rides, galleries, shopping, fantastic food... who cares about the weather. It's that four seasons in one day thing those crowdies wrote about... random weather all over the shop. I just need seasons seguing nicely. The solution is to layer... layer more heavily in winter than summer, but layer. That said, summers can be sweaty... I'd go at a slightly cooler time.
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I loved Lilith's pics of the cosy container and you have some kind of cosy antelope thing going on here, so I have to post this one of a cosy wombat. World domination by the knitting fraternity.
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Hebe, in reply to
Mmm, sounds like I could have a midwinter Viennese-ish excursion without the airfare -- art, food, shops, coffee, poking about in alleyways. Sounds alluring.
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JacksonP, in reply to
Is that, um, the $27,000 sofa in question?
Yes. It comes with two lounge chairs for the more ambitious, at a paltry AUD $12,000 each. So for AUD $51,000 and change, you can have a full suite, for the small-ish family of four to seat uncomfortably, but with style.
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JacksonP, in reply to
More pump house. Colonnades? Pushing it maybe.
Coffee amidst a colonnade. Melbourne’s GPO.
I’m having a Kanye/Taylor Swift moment. Great shot Julie.
Might have to start a collection of colonnade captures. The vanishing point is magnificent.
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JacksonP, in reply to
The cage alley one is wonderful Jack!
It must have cost a fortune for all the extras etc.Thanks Jos. Incidentally, there were half a dozen Japanese school children in uniform behind me taking photos too. I could have got them in the shot, but that would have seriously blown the budget. ;-)
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Got it covered!
Might have to start a collection of colonnade captures.
working title for that digital column:
Cloister Home...From pillar to post...
Maybe an arcade is a type of colonnade?
Classical arcade: colonnade, gallery, cloister,
loggia, portico, peristyle, stoa.Market forces...
Wallpaper art.
This is at Paddington Market, right?
It was great having that just round the corner (almost)
when we lived in Sydney, just off Elizabeth Street,
on Windsor Street. A great suburb. It was weird
having drunkenly left Auckland the night before
to wake up next to another Windsor Castle....I have another embedded mental image,
of wandering about a block away from
the posh part of George Street, to find an old
area with a coupla horses tied up outside
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Lilith __, in reply to
World domination by the knitting fraternity
Taking over the world, one peggy-square at time! Your wombat is very cute. :-)
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