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5:56 pm tonight, (Tuesday 15th of January 2008)

Posted by Andrew Gould (Sydney, Australia) on 15 January 2008 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

Next time, it will back to San Francisco again, but tonight (at least, my time), come and cross the road with me right in the middle of the Sydney city centre. This was just three and a bit hours before posting, when I was on my way home.

(That's the Queen Victoria Building in the background.)

Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 DC OS


UPDATE after receiving 7 comments: I am so pleased that there has been substantial mention in these comments of capturing the feeling of the busyiness of the city because this is exactly what I intended to convey. I wanted you all to have as close to the feeling that I had standing there in the midst of all this activity.


Just a little more background on the shot also: As I've mentioned in a reply below, pedestrians can cross in any direction here, as when it's their turn, the lights change to red at the same time on all the streets that meet here. Apparently, this intersection will become a pedestrian plaza in the future. This is part of an overall plan to make the city centre more pedestrian friendly.


The street that you see going out of the picture to the right is George St, which is the principal thoroughfare in the centre.


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