BRIDGEWORK

Having recently posted some of my photographs of Sydney Opera House, I thought I'd share a few of my studies of Sydney's other landmark – the Sydney Harbour Bridge...

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The bridge was designed and built by British companies from Middlesborough and Darlington and was opened in 1932. It is the world's widest long-span bridge, the tallest steel arch bridge, measuring 440 feet from top to water level, and the fifth-longest spanning-arch bridge in the world. It is locally nicknamed 'The Coat Hanger'!

I attempted to photograph the bridge from various angles and in various lights in order to try and capture both its huge size and its graceful elegance...

I photographed the Opera House from beneath the bridge...

And I photographed the bridge reflected in – and seen through – windows of the Opera House...

And here are the bridge and the Opera House as seen from the perspective of a giraffe in Sydney Zoo...

You can find more of my Oz-shots in my flickr album, Sensational Sydney.

Images: © Brian Sibley 2001/2010

OPERATIC SETTINGS

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While rummaging through some old photos and saving them to my flickr photostream, I came across a number of pictorial memories from 2001 when, en route to Wellington, New Zealand, I stopped off for a few days in Sydney, Australia.

I will never forget checking into the Park Hyatt Hotel in the shadow of the famous Harbour Bridge and finding – to my utter delight – that the view from my bedroom window was of the famous Sydney Opera House. Over the next few days I photographed Danish architect Jørn Utzon's amazing building, literally, morning, noon and night!

Here are a few of those operatic settings...

Images: © Brian Sibley 2001/2010