Weeping willow over water, Chinese Garden of Friendship, Sydney
Memories of Sydney Monorail
The Monorail was always popular with tourists, although tickets were expensive compared with other forms of public transport. When I worked at UTS (University of Technology, Sydney) this was the quickest way to get into the city centre at lunch time.
Paddy’s Markets Station
The picture above shows Paddy’s Markets station (formerly called Powerhouse Museum and originally Haymarket) during the dismantling of the system, please note the monorail has been removed.
There are billboards inside the station advertising local attractions and ironically discounted monorail travel. The following is from Wikipedia on 7/7/2016 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Monorail
The Sydney Monorail (originally TNT Harbourlink and later Metro Monorail) was a single-loop monorail in Sydney, Australia, that connected Darling Harbour, Chinatown and the Sydney central business and shopping districts. It opened in July 1988 and closed in June 2013.[1]
There were eight stations on the 3.6 kilometre loop, with up to six trains operating simultaneously. It served major attractions and facilities such as the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Aquarium and Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. The system was operated by Veolia.
Winter thoughts
Circles were created in Paper 53 for iPad, grunge film and fisheye lens applied in Kitcamera.
Winter thoughts
July has begun;
Unfinished projects silently calling.
Cold blue skies and sun;
Days spent, body of heaviness, hauling.
Mornings are chilling;
My get up and go has got up and gone
Unable unwilling;
Inner fitness battle needs to be won.
Clear chill evening air;
Eight weeks ’til Sydney starts to warm again.
Inspiration; where?
Revisiting, revising; learning reigns.
Winter sky
I had to be quick to snap this sunset behind the UNSW Library Tower.
SOH, a bit more
The Opera House sits on a piece of land called Bennelong Point. Looking left to right there is a reasonable gap between the Opera House and the first building in the colonnade on the western Broadwalk. The entrance to the concert hall and the opera theatre is under the multitude of steps seen in the picture above. The Opera Bar is a popular vantage point to sip a drink while watching the ferries coming and going in Circular Quay.
The Opera House is just as impressive from the other side. Many people go to Mrs Macquarie’s Chair to take pictures of the Opera House with the Harbour Bridge in the background. This picture was taken from the back of the ferry to Manly.
The other SOH post.
Autumn leaves, Winter walk
Winter feast
I have a new regime when editing pictures for the posts here. Rather than relying on the app that came with the iPad I have taken some tips from Life In Lo Fi.
In a nutshell I take the following steps:
- take photographs with Cortex Cam on an iPhone 6s
- adjust the sharpness and structure using Snapseed
- enhance using the wand tool, apply lenses and films and set the aspect ratio in Kitcamera
The above image is the after version of the original below.
SOH
Sydney Opera House
Majestic palms
Morton Park, Sydney, Australia.
Thank you for the music
When I was at secondary school it was totally uncool to listen to, let alone like ABBA. I spent many hours alone in my bedroom listening to music that transported me to far away places. It’s funny how things turned out for the shy boy from Birmingham. Who would have thought he would move to Australia 20 years after buying ABBA: The Album. It features music from the documentary film of ABBA’s Australian tour, ABBA: The Movie.
We used our father’s redundancy money to go on our first overseas trip by aeroplane to Jersey in the Channel Islands. It was 1978, my parents, two brothers and I stayed full board for ten days at the Golden Sands Hotel. This is my first memory of live entertainment. I remember the soulful sound of a young woman in the bar, singing and strumming the guitar, while disco music pulsated from the ballroom.
I look back with embarrassment at a naive 14 year old proudly taking his brand new vinyl album down to the ballroom because the DJ had not played any ABBA. Thankfully one of the tracks was played and this holiday was filed away in the recesses of my mind as a happy memory.
I was filled with nostalgia as I read that last weekend was the 50th anniversary of the musical duo of Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson joining force and the first time in 30 years the group had performed together.
I now say with pride that I was and still am an ABBA fan, thank you for the music!
Do you have a happy ABBA memory you would like to share?
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