Thursday 27 October 2011

Thursday 20 October 2011

Autumn Colour

Linking up with Bella again at 52 photos project
It is Spring where I live but Autumn is my favourite season to photograph. I took this shot last year.

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Handwriting

Linking up this week with Bella at 52 Photo Projects
A time to share: handwriting
My husband's letters  to me 20 years ago when I was travelling

Saturday 8 October 2011

2110 Hunters Hill and Woolwich


Today a visit to postcode 2110, Sydney's Hunters Hill and Woolwich. 2110 is the 5th postcode I have photographed in the 'My Sydney' project. As I visit each suburb I feel an affiliation with each, it is as though I am getting to know a new set of friends. Each suburb I photograph and research I become acquainted with and grow a fondness towards. I clicked with postcode 2110. Hunters Hill and Woolwich had a peace I could get very used to, it was warm and relaxed. The shop owners and residents are very proud and fiercely protective of their heritage and location. Being school holidays there was an myriad of children enjoying the surrounds they are blessed to explore. Today I was accompanied by my friend Arpana who is also completing the Sydney Suburb challenge ( visit her blog at 26).

Hunters Hill and Woolwich are the scene of a quiet tranquil village. Quaint coffee shops and stores, manicured private gardens, picket fences, original and restored sandstone cottages and public buildings, adorn the area. Interested in what we were doing and obviously proud of his work, one builder on site asked if we were here to photograph 'the sandstone'. Disappointed we were not photographing his handiwork he wished us a happy day.

Former Garibaldi Hotel built in 1862 by Italian John Cuneo



pick or pay for your flowers
#1 what's your number?
#2 what's your number?

Shades of Pale
 picket fences
beware of the dog
beware of the children who delight in thieving mulberries



a water front home

The peninsular of Hunters Hill and Woolwich is flanked by the Lane Cove river on the North and the Parramatta River on the South. The municipality of Hunters Hill celebrates it's Sesquicentenary this year. During my research I was delighted to come across the most gorgeous footage of the Hunters Hill Centenary Parade in 1961, at  huntershill150.

Parramatta River side

 views of The Gladesville Bridge

Lane Cove River side
Northumberland Street Steps going down to The Woolwich Baths


Friday 7 October 2011

Thursday 6 October 2011

2095 Manly


I headed over to Manly in anticipation of catching some Manly football fever. With the Rugby League Grand final to be played the next day I was hoping to capture some Manly Sea Eagle spirit. Manly was a hive of activity, a relatively sunny day and the annual Jazz Festival had drawn large crowds. Miss Laura and I started our day at the top of the hill and crept slowly down into Sea Eagle territory. My husband TJ was raised here until he was five years old so we enjoyed the family history tour as well.

Standing guard the top of the hill on Darley Road is the impressive St Patrick's Seminary, build in 1885. The Catholic Church now lease it to the International College of Management (affiliated with Macquarie University)

St Patrick's Seminary





view of St Partick's Seminary from the bottom on the hill

Heading down the hill into Manly we stopped to take a photo of my husband's first family home on Cliff Street. A shot at Shelly Beach, a walk along Fairy Bower before we came to the Manly beach and home to the Surf Life Saving Club.

TJ's first home- his little cot used to sit behind this window

boat chains at Shelly Beach
a walk from Shelly Beach along Fairy Bower to Manly Beach
TJ learnt to swim here at the tidal pool along Fairy Bower
view of Shelly Beach from Fairy Bower
Manly Beach- volley ball anyone?

life savers at Manly Beach


soul savers at Manly Beach

Manly Sea Eagles V  New Zealand Warriors NRL Grand-final 2011
Final score Sea Eagles 24 Warriors 10
support for the home team along The Corso
Council Chambers even got into the spirit of maroon and white

The Manly Corso links the beach side of Manly to the harbour side of Manly. It is a strip of restaurants and shops with fountains and play equipment for the kiddies. Today it played host to the annual International Jazz Festival.

Annual International Jazz Festival on The Corso
posting and dining on The Corso
finding LOVE near The Corso

The harbour side of Manly is home to The Manly Wharf and the popular Manly ferry. The first Manly ferry docked on the wharf in 1877. I would visit Manly by ferry as a child and swim in the shark proof  harbour beach near the wharf.

shark netting along harbour side of Manly

boards for sale