While the scant cloud off Sydney’s Coogee Beach sets the scene for a hot day, I suggest peering into the sand to spot the blur which is a couple boxing on the beach at first light.
November 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
While the scant cloud off Sydney’s Coogee Beach sets the scene for a hot day, I suggest peering into the sand to spot the blur which is a couple boxing on the beach at first light.
First light was about as I trawled the streets of Sydney’s Surry Hills. It’s a funny feeling as I’ve been a local for more than 4 decades watching the place go from a knock about working class suburb to place for the rich. Some older folks still hang on, but there kids eye the sales $s
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 PM
First light was about as I trawled the streets of Sydney’s Surry Hills. It’s a funny feeling as I’ve been a local for more than 4 decades watching the place go from a knock about working class suburb to place for the rich. Some older folks still hang on, but there kids eye the sales $s
In response to the 1900 bubonic plague and the need to modernise for steamships and motor vehicles, the Sydney Harbour Trust embarked on a major redevelopment between 1912 and 1922. This wharf was designed by H. D. Walsh.
Walsh Bay.
Walsh Bay.
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
In response to the 1900 bubonic plague and the need to modernise for steamships and motor vehicles, the Sydney Harbour Trust embarked on a major redevelopment between 1912 and 1922. This wharf was designed by H. D. Walsh.
Walsh Bay.
Walsh Bay.
I’m home before Sydney is said to get some precipitation action, and dropped in to Balmain to inspect one of the new style harbour wharves. They used to be fixed into the ground below, now the float with the tides and slide up and down pylons. This is the Balmain East stop.
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m home before Sydney is said to get some precipitation action, and dropped in to Balmain to inspect one of the new style harbour wharves. They used to be fixed into the ground below, now the float with the tides and slide up and down pylons. This is the Balmain East stop.
A cooler drizzly pre dawn took me down the Cooks River. Sydney city lights in the distance and the St George Fishing Club on the right.
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A cooler drizzly pre dawn took me down the Cooks River. Sydney city lights in the distance and the St George Fishing Club on the right.
A ghostly dawn at Sydney’s Centennial Park.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
A ghostly dawn at Sydney’s Centennial Park.
Early morning architectural detail on a Sydney spring day.
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Early morning architectural detail on a Sydney spring day.
Sydney icon at dawn. Opened in 1932.
November 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Sydney icon at dawn. Opened in 1932.
After British settlement, the area was first known as ‘Rush Cutting Bay’ because the swampy land was covered in tall rushes used by early settlers for thatching houses. In 1878, after reclamation work was completed, Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay Park was created.
November 16, 2025 at 8:11 PM
After British settlement, the area was first known as ‘Rush Cutting Bay’ because the swampy land was covered in tall rushes used by early settlers for thatching houses. In 1878, after reclamation work was completed, Sydney’s Rushcutters Bay Park was created.
Grey overnight and now, but off Sydney’s coast at dawn, there was a brief glimmer of glamour.
November 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Grey overnight and now, but off Sydney’s coast at dawn, there was a brief glimmer of glamour.
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is peeking into the scene which features the Garrison Church, built in the 1840s.
This spot was fairly inaccessible in the early colonial days because of a high ridge between the Rocks and Millers Point. The Argyle Cut fixed this.
This spot was fairly inaccessible in the early colonial days because of a high ridge between the Rocks and Millers Point. The Argyle Cut fixed this.
November 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is peeking into the scene which features the Garrison Church, built in the 1840s.
This spot was fairly inaccessible in the early colonial days because of a high ridge between the Rocks and Millers Point. The Argyle Cut fixed this.
This spot was fairly inaccessible in the early colonial days because of a high ridge between the Rocks and Millers Point. The Argyle Cut fixed this.
The forecast is for no rain, but a bit cloudy at dawn above Sydney’s Bronte Beach (I’ve put the sheets in the wash for a line dry as the weekend is looking damp).
November 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The forecast is for no rain, but a bit cloudy at dawn above Sydney’s Bronte Beach (I’ve put the sheets in the wash for a line dry as the weekend is looking damp).
A simple dawn urban silhouette in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Lines and angles, antennas and sewer vents, some foliage and a glinting cloud.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A simple dawn urban silhouette in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Lines and angles, antennas and sewer vents, some foliage and a glinting cloud.
Checking in on the continuing rehabilitation of the mangroves at Woolooware Bay on Botany Bay on a crepuscular ray Sydney dawn.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Checking in on the continuing rehabilitation of the mangroves at Woolooware Bay on Botany Bay on a crepuscular ray Sydney dawn.
On a cool morning ahead of a beautiful warm spring Sydney day, I’ve made my way to La Perouse. This is the bridge across to Bare Island and affords a great view of the opening to Botany Bay and dawn yellows.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
On a cool morning ahead of a beautiful warm spring Sydney day, I’ve made my way to La Perouse. This is the bridge across to Bare Island and affords a great view of the opening to Botany Bay and dawn yellows.
I have an appointment at St Vincent’s (just a check up, nothing scary), dropped off wife at work, daughter at her work, and running early.
So went to Elizabeth Bay and saw some bull shark burly.
So went to Elizabeth Bay and saw some bull shark burly.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I have an appointment at St Vincent’s (just a check up, nothing scary), dropped off wife at work, daughter at her work, and running early.
So went to Elizabeth Bay and saw some bull shark burly.
So went to Elizabeth Bay and saw some bull shark burly.
I spend a lot of time in the shadows, stalking out a sleeping city, being places usually teeming with people, but empty for me. Sunrises are fine, but painting a scene with scant urban lights tickles my brain.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I spend a lot of time in the shadows, stalking out a sleeping city, being places usually teeming with people, but empty for me. Sunrises are fine, but painting a scene with scant urban lights tickles my brain.
Out at stupid o’clock again I find myself at Balmain. Once a slum, now housing here unaffordable to most people. And also the bedroom to some of the Sydney Harbour Ferry Fleet.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Out at stupid o’clock again I find myself at Balmain. Once a slum, now housing here unaffordable to most people. And also the bedroom to some of the Sydney Harbour Ferry Fleet.
Before the sunrise, before the showers, before the possible thunderstorm…. The old brick works at Sydney’s St Peters stands still as the clouds race by.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Before the sunrise, before the showers, before the possible thunderstorm…. The old brick works at Sydney’s St Peters stands still as the clouds race by.
Ruby (the staffy cross) is behind my resting in the long grasses while I get some vitamin D sitting in Wimbo Park, Surry Hills.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Ruby (the staffy cross) is behind my resting in the long grasses while I get some vitamin D sitting in Wimbo Park, Surry Hills.
Nestled in the south west corner of Sydney’s Centennial Park is a great spot to grab a sunrise at this time of year.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nestled in the south west corner of Sydney’s Centennial Park is a great spot to grab a sunrise at this time of year.
A dawn of hues above a waking Sydney.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A dawn of hues above a waking Sydney.
A nicely crisp Sydney dawn. Clear sky, rising floors.
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A nicely crisp Sydney dawn. Clear sky, rising floors.
I know I spend too much time at Bronte’s ocean pool. It is such a photogenic part of Sydney, even on a cool and cloudy dawn, it calls me and those fit folk who put in the laps.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I know I spend too much time at Bronte’s ocean pool. It is such a photogenic part of Sydney, even on a cool and cloudy dawn, it calls me and those fit folk who put in the laps.
Graffiti in the parts of Sydney that I visit most is stuck in time. Nothing added in the last couple of decades, and there’s a strange appeal. Not quite a museum, but a time capsule.
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Graffiti in the parts of Sydney that I visit most is stuck in time. Nothing added in the last couple of decades, and there’s a strange appeal. Not quite a museum, but a time capsule.