Vivid Sydney is over, and it won’t be on again til the next year. This may be delayed, but as promised, here’s the next instalment of photos for Vivid Sydney 2010. I will be making this post brief, so you can enjoy more of the photos from this colourful festival of lights. Make sure you try and catch next year’s Vivid Sydney event and book your next holiday to Sydney with the world’s largest travel booking website

Sydney Opera House

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Vivid Sydney – The Sydney Opera House Comes To New Light

It’s one of the annual events in Sydney, and it draws attention to its star attraction. The Sydney Opera House comes alive with vibrant colours and funky motifs as the Vivid Sydney festival begins. This year, they have more unique

motifs projected onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House, with great animation and light displays. The Vivid Sydney festival is a celebration of light, music and artwork, but has been more focused on the light projections and displays that it puts out on the numerous historical and iconic buildings around Sydney CBD.

In continuation to my post on Staycation, I decided to write something about my current home city, Sydney, particularly this very colourful and inspiring festival of light displays. I’m a keen photographer as well, and one of the

things I love to do is play around with my SLR camera and have fun creating shots using different techniques. Hence, I’m putting out this post to show you what I’ve taken with my SLR camera for Vivid Sydney 2010:

Up Close – Sydney Opera House

Opera House in Purple

Blur in colour - Vivid Sydney

Flower Power - flowers on the sails

Playing with light - my rendition of Vivid Sydney on image

Funky lights at the Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney 2010

Sydney Opera House Lights from a distance

More photos to come on Part 2 of Vivid Sydney 2010. I hope you enjoyed my work through the lens.

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The Run With A View

Sydney Harbor - after the bridge run

On 20th September 2009, I was fortunate enough to have participated in possibly one of the best running events in the world in terms of scenery of the course. I participated in the Sydney Bridge Run, which started from the suburb of Milsons Point, and then crossed over the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and finishing at the Sydney Opera House. The run covers two of Sydney’s most popular landmarks, the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. It’s an amazing experience, to be able to run across the middle of the Sydney Harbour Bridge (possibly the only time people are allowed in the middle of the bridge itself).

I did this run for 2 reasons: one was to raise money for charity, and two, to help a friend achieve a weight loss objective by training for an event like this.

Running For A Cause

The charity I supported was the Diabetes Australia. I decided to raise money for this charity because my dad had suffered from Type 2 diabetes which caused a number of his internal organs to fail over the course of 11 years. He passed away 6 years ago, and I felt that I wanted to help raise awareness of how terrible this disease is, and how it can really kill you if you’re not careful with your health and your diet. Diabetes Australia is involved in doing research and education about diabetes, how to prevent it and how to best control it. Diabetes is one of those illnesses that once contracted, will never be healed, but can only be controlled before it starts destroying the other organs of your body. If you want to donate for this cause, it would be very much appreciated. The website is on this link.

I decided to do this run only 3 weeks before the actual event itself. I was not entirely well prepared to do this, but I have a friend at work who has been wanting to lose weight, and I wanted to help him achieve his goal. Having an event to do is something he can look forward to with his workout training/exercise, and that can help him push himself with his exercise. The run was only 9km, but at the start of the training, I was only fit to run 2km. It wasn’t an easy task to push myself to get up to the fitness level to run 9km in a matter of 3 weeks! I had no expectations of how long it will take me, but I just did as much training as I can in the limited amount of time.

Admittedly though, I’ve been into running for the past 7 years, but over the last 8 months, I have been very inconsistent about my training, and I’ve not done any running events since a year ago. It can be hard work trying to get back into the swing of things, and you really notice the difference in your fitness level. I love running, and if I can afford it, I would love to take part in the numerous running events all over the world! It seems that there is a growing trend that a lot of cities around the world are hosting their own city marathon event. London has one, New York and Boston have one, and even Queenstown in New Zealand has one!

State Of Mind

I’ve been a believer that the mind is a very powerful tool that can enable you to do anything you want from it. I really believe that as long as I focus on the task at hand, visualise my outcome that I’ve achieved it, that it will happen for me. Thus, when I started training, I had in my mind the time that I wanted to finish at. I kept on thinking about, and well, true enough, I crossed the finishline at the time that I had wanted (to the exact second!). I literally had goosebumps on the back of my neck when I saw the time on my stopwatch, as it was really what I wanted to finish at!

Photos from my run are below:

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Welcome to another edition of Fabulous Journeys!

I just got back from admiring the awesome light displays at the Vivid Sydney event on the Sydney Opera House that it inspired me to write this post. At the Vivid Sydney exhibition, the Sydney Opera House was lit up with various artistic designs and motifs and turned the Sydney Opera House into something like an artist’s canvas. The projections are all so amazing, and it is changed every 10 minutes roughly. This event happens once a year, and would be only one of the very few occassions that the Sydney Opera House would show some different moods to the general public.

I’m very lucky to be living amongst one of the most iconic landmarks in the world, and a lot of people all over the world come to visit Sydney to see the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House has become one of the symbols of Australia. It’s not what you would expect an opera house would look like, and yet its design has become a marvel of the abstract art and architecture world. So much so, that in 2007, the Sydney Opera House was nominated as one of the finalists for the New 7 Wonders of the Modern World!

I’d like to share with you some of the photos I’ve taken of the Sydney Opera House over the years, both from a normal day and night, and also from the recent Vivid Sydney event. Note that these photos are my original photos, and none of these have been edited using any photo-editing software or tools. Totally 100% Pure, Unadulterated Sydney Opera House!

Sydney Opera House - By Day

Sydney Opera House - At Dusk

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections 1

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections 2

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections Green

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections Brown

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections CloseUp

Sydney Opera House - Vivid Sydney Projections Lava-like

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