Posts in Category: Travel Photography
STUDY: New South Wales Central Coast
I’ve lived in the same house for my entire life. I’ve grown up in this suburb, attended the local high school and seen pretty much everything that’s worth seeing here.
It’s easy to resent the mundane. It’s easy to overlook the simple pleasures of our world when we experience it every day. We take it for granted, and that’s pretty natural.
I live in one of New South Wales’ most beloved holiday destinations, but since it’s my day-to-day world, it doesn’t feel that way to me.
One day in 2012, I decided to break the monotony of my life. I took Meredith (my camera) and drove around my hometown, experiencing my world afresh. The photos I took I submitted into the 2012 Heart of Annandale exhibition and won the North Annandale Hotel prize for Digital Art.
It’s amazing what can happen when we see our lives through a different lens.
STUDY: University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is Australia’s oldest academic institution. It was established in 1850 and hosted such notable alumni as Australia’s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton.
The main campus spreads over Camperdown and Darlington in Sydney’s Inner West. Its iconic neo-Gothic sandstone buildings have been named in the world’s top 10 most picturesque universities – according to the British Daily Telegraph, Huffington Post and even Disney Pixar magazine.
In 2013, the university ranked within the top 0.3% of the world on the QS World University Rankings.
It’s a wonderful university but at times, I think, it’s students can become disillusioned with its beauty. They say familiarity breeds contempt, and in my case, I think that’s true.
So in order to revive its beauty in my own eyes, I took a day in early 2013, before classes had started, to capture Australia’s top university from the eyes of a tourist.
I forced myself to forget I was a student there and experience the beauty of the campus and adjoining parks anew.
Later on in the same year, I covered a story on the university’s education strikes as a photo journalist for Australia’s oldest student-run newspaper Honi Soit. View the gallery of photos here.
