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Happy New Year everyone!
May 2011 bring prosperity and happiness to all my readers and a year full of good food, good stories and plenty of laughter. I suppose this post is festive enough to celebrate the occasion so enjoy!
Vivid Sydney
One of the main events we attended whilst in Sydney was the Vivid Sydney festival. Vivid Sydney was first started in 2009 and has since become the major winter festival showcasing the wonderful illuminations on Sydney Opera House and numerous other buildings, live music as well as a series of conferences and seminars about ideas and creativity. This ran from May 27 to June 20 in 2010 and operated nightly from 6pm till late.
Sydney Opera House
We started our night at the Sydney Opera House (the opposite to most people just because it was closer to where we were). As it was very windy, my photos didn't turn out too well even with a tripod (although the tripod was quite a bad one…doh). Every few minutes, the light on the Opera House changed. I could have stood there for hours on end because it was SO beautiful and different to the usual Opera House we always see. However, there had to be an end to our night. The following were a series of the photos I took, isn't it lovely? :D
Scotch College has a huge valedictory dinner for its year 12 students every year to celebrate (almost) completing VCE and wrap up the year's hard work. This year, the event was held at Sofitel Hotel at 25 Collins St, Melbourne CBD. The enormous Grand Ballroom, which can seat up to 838 people, was booked out for the night and eager red striped boys and their equally keen parents arrived early to take photos and pat each other on the back. The students were meant to invite their 'parents' along but as ours were busy, I had to act as my brother Jeff's guardian. Due to this, I was painfully mistaken by two of Jeff's schoolmates as his MOTHER….what awful eyesight boys! >:( Obviously studied too hard during the year HMMF.
Putting that aside, it was actually quite a refreshing and nostalgic experience for me, since high school seemed like a century ago. My main role for the night was lugging my huge DSLR around to take photos for Jeff and his friends, and on the odd occasion, photos of food. :) The photos didn't turn out as well as I had hoped because the room was quite dark for most of the time (and unfortunately at the time, I didn't have a proper flash).
