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 l'eau sous toutes ces formes. 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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To view how the theme of 'water' inspired 178 bloggers throughout the world, click on my other blog Avignon in Photos or on the City Daily Photo portal (sorry I tried several times to upload the the full list of participants, but my my system wouldn't take it - too heavy?)
Pour voir comment le thème de l'eau a inspiré 178 bloggeurs ailleurs dans le monde, visitez mon autre blog Avignon en Photos ou le portail City Daily Photo et laissez-vous guider, en vous rappelant qu'à cause des fuseaux horaires certains ne publieront que plus tard dans la journée (désolée, j'ai essayé de faire monter la liste complète des participants, mais blogger refuse - trop lourd ?)



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.
