Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo

My son's birthday coincides nicely with the Sydney Vivid festival, where "art, technology and commerce intersect" - three weeks of light shows and sculpture that brighten up the city during the cold (and sometimes wet) winter here.

Taronga Zoo has put on an event for the last few years, with wonderful light sculptures that look like giant stained-glass animals. Needless to say, an afternoon at the zoo, followed by a trip through this surreal landscape after dark has become a favourite.

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  Australia - where the spiders kill the poisonous snakes

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  Lanterns

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  The pangolin

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  The bamboo shoots make a rather nice abstract with the tiger in the background

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  Tasmanian devil

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  Croc

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  Bilby

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  Redback spiders

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  Duck-billed platypus

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  Lion cubs

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  Bejewled lizard

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  The big blue elephant

Lonely Mail, 35

Spotted while walking around my village. Looks like the junk mailer got here before me.

Shining Pools

Walking to a meeting in Sydney, the sun was shining onto the glass facade of an anonymous office building. The light reflected in shimmering pools on the side of a sandstone building, making the uniform shapes seem quite organic.Submitted the the Wordpress weekly photo challenge Shine.

Parramatta, city of the future

Sydney is one of the most expensive cities in the world to live and work in, with sky-high property prices. The population is expanding, mostly to the West, and hence, so to is the attention of property developers. Parramatta is a suburb in the western sprawl, and the city council have announced a $1.6 billion investment in new buildings - offices, apartments and retail. And so, Parramatta starts its transformation.Taken with my new Fujifilm X-Pro2 and 35mm f2 lens.