Tim Ritchie

Abstract

Looking down a small pier at Sydney’s Darling Harbour, the city lights dance the dance of abstraction.

Damp

The Sydney suburb of Zetland was named in the 1870s by New South Wales Governor Sir Hercules Robinson to honour his friend Thomas Dundas, the 2nd Earl of Zetland.
On a drizzly pre dawn, I ponder the odd name of Zetland and appreciate the cool effect of being damp after a sticky night.

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Abstract

I’m sad to say that we are at the back end of summer, and the sun is already late to the morning. So there was no sky action when I was out early, but the lure of city lights dancing on the inky depths of Sydney Harbour made my pulse quicken.

Kayaking

This paddler must know the Sydney Harbour Ferry routes to be out solo at sunrise. If you visit, look up a kayak tour company for this kind of action. An acquaintance once hit a bull shark with his paddle.🦈

Terrace houses

These are three of the ten or so terrace houses that make up Edgely Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills. The odd thing is there isn’t an actual street. Its frontage is a park, and the road next to the park is Nickson Street. It’s a cute spot.

Urban noir

The noir delights that Clifton Reserve delivers every night (early morning for me) is available to all if they dare to venture into her darkness. It connects to Crown Street in Sydney’s Surry Hills.

City

I tried to take a pic of the temperature drop and the windy conditions, but failed. At the northern tip of Sydney’s Darlinghurst, my realisation came to me from my vantage point of Wisdom Lane.

Freaky dawn

Bushfire smoke haze from the fires north of Sydney mixed with light cloud and a dawn glow give an eerie effect above Victoria Park at the southern end of the CBD.

Dawn

I’m perched on the pier at Darling Harbour looking towards the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It’s is warm at dawn ahead of another hot day. Off to the right, Barad-dûr casts its evil eye across the city.

Cityscape

Sydney’s Darling Harbour sparkles as a warm dawn unfolds into a hot day.

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Sunrise

As first light lit a light blanket of fine cloud, I was expecting a grey dawn. It is grey now, but (again) there was a moment of Sydney glory as the sun pushed through a gap in the cloud just as it hit the horizon.

I got a very brief flash of pink and purple as dawn warmed up at Rushcutters Bay ahead of another hot Sydney summers day.

Opera House

I see a little silhouette.

Urban lane

Adelaide Place is a bit spooky, and sits in a quiet part of Surry Hills. The odd brutalist beacon at the end is the old Readers Digest Sydney office.

Cityscape

If you walk, drive or cycle up Mrs Macquarie’s Road early in the morning, and keep very quiet, there’s a clearing in the trees where you can spot Sydney City slumbering in the summer warmth.

Gum nuts

I love gum nut flowers, I feel the white one are rare. The red ones seem most prevalent but my favourite is the brilliant orange ones. What’s your favourite?

Urban house

This Sydney Terrace is on Bourke Street at Telopea Street. What caught my eye was the play of dawn light, street lights and the shadows they create. Urban scenes are very mnemonic for me as they take me back to my late teens when I moved from a dull suburb to the city.

Sydney Harbour

It’s not the Sydney Harbour Bridge that caught my eye, nor the Opera House, not even glorious the summer dawn, but it was the curve of the wake behind the harbour ferry as it heads east.

Pathway

Federation Way is a pedestrian and cycle path that links Anzac Parade to Centennial Park. Often busy, and Sydneysiders are early risers, but this morning, I got there first.

Bridge

The ANZAC Bridge on the south west corner of Sydney Harbour marks the entry to both Rozelle and Blackwattle Bays. Even on a drab early morning it sets my heart aflutter.

Opera House

I challenged the weather prophets when I stated that the forecast for rain were hollow over the last few days. Last night and this morning the rains did fall, and with great gusto, so this little peddler stay in bed.
This is a previously unpublished shot from March 10 years ago.

Sydney's Newtown got its name from the growth of a "new town" or village in the early 1800s, likely popularized by the "New Town Stores" opened by John and Margaret Webster around 1832.
Here we see the side of a grand terrace, and the 20thC phenomenon, a row of garage roller doors.

Pylon reflections

The old pylons off Pirrama Park make perfect reflections on White Bay while a blanket of pre dawn cloud cloaks Sydney.

Botany Bay

The word is that Sydney will have showers and possibly a thunderstorm later, but dawn on Botany Bay witnessed a lovely array of cloud forms that appeared benign to this wanderer.

Sydney Harbour

Lavender Bay was the place to be at dawn this morning as it lived up to its name. I mean no offence to any other city or town domestically or internationally, but Sydney Harbour is a gem.

Abstract cityscape

Fires in Victoria, endless war in Ukraine and the unfathomable machinations of the US. To make sense of it all, I went abstract on the Sydney skyline. That’s the Harbour Bridge on the right.

Ocean pool

These couple of lappers are enjoying the ocean pool at Bronte Beach. Not too crowded on a pleasant and cloudy Sydney early morning.