Today's theme for City Daily Photo bloggers around the world is water. In this chronically drought-stricken country, I chose to evoke water by its absence : on the window of a Sydney suburban train, red dust hardly streaked by a few drops of rain.Chaque mois les bloggeurs du réseau City Daily Photo participent à une journée à thème. Ce mois-ci c'est "water", l'eau. Dans ce pays tourmenté par une sécheresse chronique, j'ai choisi d'évoquer l'eau par son absence : sur la vitre d'un train de banlieue de Sydney, la poussière rouge à peine balafrée par quelques trop rares gouttes...
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...but then how to resist showing a view of Sydney's magnificent harbour? Water in Sydney necessarily means sea, ferries and sailing. View from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in Kirribili.
... mais comment résister au bonheur de montrer aussi la somptueuse baie de Sydney ? L'eau à Sydney c'est forcément la mer, les ferries et les régates. Vue depuis le Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron de Kirribili.
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This will be my last post on this blog, I am moving on to other pursuits. I shall leave this blog to live a life of its own on the web now - if a random search brought you here, I hope you enjoy my photos and my very personal vision of Sydney. Please DO NOT USE my photos for any purpose without asking me first, I can be contacted at the e-mail address shown in my profile. Thank you.
Ce sera là mon dernier billet sur ce blog, j'avance vers d'autres projets. Je laisse désormais ce blog vivre sa vie propre dans le cyber espace - si une recherche ou le hasard vous ont amené ici, j'espère que vous apprécierez mes photos et ma vision très personnelle de Sydney. Merci de NE PAS UTILISER mes photos pour quelque usage que ce soit sans me le demander - vous pouvez me joindre à l'adresse e-mail indiquée dans mon profil. Merci.


The Museum of Contemporary art (the golden building in the background) combined with an Aboriginal painting displayed in the window of a gallery on Circular Quay.
Taken from the train on the North Shore Line, trees in the suburb of Pymble combined with the message "I love Blake" scribbled on the window... Do you find these images too bizarre or do they speak to you? (none of them are the result of post-processing, the special effects only come from the way I took the photos)


...And then there are those who work : here on Kent street, with a ship from the Swedish 

Sunday afternoon, the shop window of an art gallery in a small back street in Manly : the sun's last rays hit completely horizontally these sculptures which appear to explore the relation between man and tree (see the tree drawn on the bottom man's belly?). The shadow was perfect.



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The big difference with the northern hemisphere is that there are no mountain pines, only eucalypts - magnificent snow gums in particular, whose bark take spectacular colours against the white snow. For more great photos of that, check out the websites of .jpg)
Blue Cow, fun name for this ski field located above Perisher ! (see 
In a back alley off Oxford Street in Paddington, a lion shedding a tear (crocodile tear?) ...



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My third (mid-afternoon, long after the lunch hour rush) is the food court at the foot of Westpac bank.






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