In this gallery you will find photos from two vacations in Australia 2000 and 2002 (Sydney). With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 950x650 pixel or 90-160KB. Enjoy your holidays!
Sydney by night
Who has spent some time in the galleries of New York and Hong Kong might have noticed that I am a friend of night photography. That did not change in Sydney. And there is more atmosphere in Sydneys nights than is in many other major cities I have visited
And even at night the opera prevails over everything. Therefore our night walk begins with impressions of this fantastic building
By the way: even of you're photo-addicted too, don't forget the actual night life. After dining in a restaurant (take a foreign one, cooking isn't one of Australians strongest suits) you can walk Oxford Street - there is a bar is for everyones taste.
Or you spend your night at one of Sydneys irish pubs. We did so in Chinatown - Goulburn Street corner George Street we found a great pub with different live music (just walk Goulburn street after 10 p.m., you will hear it, I promise) every night.
1. Pink-Orange
Sunset behind the opera, shot from Mrs. Macquaries point
2. Lighttrails
It continues with the opera, a picture shot with 10-second exposure time
3. Arcs
The right arc, taken with the camera lying on the stairs
4. Bridgewalk
The bridgewalk takes place at night too. Price: 160 A$.
5. Bright roofs
A view from the opera to Circular Quai
6. Night-Quai
One of my favourite pictures with the opera and the skyscrapers in the background
7. Mirror
Photographed in the AMP Tower. The interior is reflected in the curved windows - an
interesting effect
8./9. View
300 meters below...
10. Montmartre
The cathedral, supernaturally illuminated
11. Bridge
The Harbour Bridge, hidden inconspicuously behind the skyscrapers
12. Darling Night
The fountain at Darling Harbour on New Years Eve 2002/3
13. Opera
Not as multicolored as it is at Christmas - impressive anyway
14./15. Bridge of peace
Peace symbol illuminating the Harbour Bridge on the day after the fireworks