Customs House, Vivid 2014
The Vivid light festival was cancelled in 2020 due to covid, and this year it’s been moved from the usual late May/early June slot to August. Let’s hope that by then, Sydney’s covid crisis is over and we can get out and about.
Sydney Opera House, Vivid 2014
Searchlights stabbing into Sydney’s night sky during the Vivid light festival
Posted as part of January Squares, the theme for which is words ending in light.
People walking along Martin Place, Sydney.
These two photos of pedestrians on Martin Place were taken a couple of years ago during the annual Vivid light festival. The long exposure needed for the lights created some interesting motion blur as people passed by!
I’m really not sure what this person was doing to turn into such an odd shape!
Cathedral of Light, Vivid
Another shot from this year’s Vivid Festival of Light. This exhibit was called Cathedral of Light. I like how the phones are held aloft as if they are offerings to whatever god inhabits this cathedral, and how the people’s arms mirror the peaked shape of the exhibit, which you can see on the phone screens.
Amanda’s hand, Vivid light festival
This is my friend Amanda’s hand silhouetted against one of the exhibits during the Vivid light festival in Sydney. It’s my second (and probably too late) entry in A Photo a Week Challenge: Hands .
Royal Botanic Garden’s 200 sign lit up for Vivid.
ANZ building, Martin Place – steel skeleton
The ANZ building in Martin Place, Sydney, is undergoing a revamp — although “revamp” is an understatement in this case. The existing building was stripped back to nothing but the grid of its steel skeleton, then a new structure was built onto that. Unusually, it was not swathed in scaffolding and netting during the dismantling stage, which gave the public a rare insight into how such buildings are constructed. I walk past this building to get to and from work, and was fascinated to see more of the skeleton revealed each day. Now that it’s just one more shiny-sided glass office tower, however, I’ve lost my interest.
ANZ building, Martin Place – steel skeleton
Here it is during the Vivid light festival in May 2014, lit in rather lurid purples and magentas.
ANZ building, Martin Place and tree, Vivid 2014
Lizard in Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans
I photographed this lizard this morning while on a walking tour of Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans. His sudden appearance on a family tomb had a few of us reaching for our cameras, and you can imagine my surprise when he displayed that vivid red and yellow throat flap!
Tom Ward, Vivid, Sydney
Split Second: 28/05/2014 – 7:20:24 PM
This photograph captures a split second in a performance by Tom Ward. His hands are usually a blur and his head is usually bowed over his guitar, but in this one moment one he seems lost in contemplation: in the groove.
Tom Ward is a musician I have often seen playing on the streets of Sydney. I was lucky enough to come across him on Wednesday evening in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, playing for the crowds who had come out in the unusually warm evening weather to watch this year’s Vivid light festival.
To see this very talented guitarist in action, check out this YouTube video of him playing at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.
