From Yikes: << Interesting how similar your white nose pod is to the roof of the Opera House. >>
+1 On that! Did you compose the shot with that in mind?
Thanks for the Opera and the Harbor Bridge shots. Made me nostalgic. Last time I was in Sydney, the Opera was still under construction, and it was hard to tell which activity was more prevalent, the building or the bitching (about the cost overruns). It was impressive then, and it's much more so now. I had never seen the base of the building because it was obscured then with all kinds of scaffolding and construction stuff. The color contrast is striking.
Every time I walk down the hallway in our house, I see on the wall two Cedric Emanuel sketches that a friend gave me when I departed Sydney. One is "The Rocks," with the Harbor Bridge in the background. The other, titled "A Paddington Terrace," is a cityscape of a block of those hillside Victorian row houses that are 12 feet wide and three stories tall. Reminds me a bit of old San Francisco, but more picturesque. (Note to anyone not familiar with Sydney: "The Rocks" is an area near the harbor that formerly had been extremely disreputable, but by the 1970s was restored, gentrified, and populated with expensive restaurants and clubs.) Don't know if the sketches are worth anything, but I really like them. (I find it prudent not to say much around the house about the provenance of the Emanuels, even though I acquired them long before I ceased being single. For that reason I hope the question of their value, or lack thereof, never arises.)
Incidentally, I heard recently that tourists can climb to the top of the Harbor Bridge. I don't think that was permitted when I was there.
