landscapes

31jan2017
these are sort of landscapes taken from 1984 onwards. i'll try and figure the date and place

1feb17

this building is/was? between redfern and central stations.

most probably taken new years eve day 84/85.

taken from older style train with doors and windows

 you could open

again same as top. i remember me and an old girl friend, 

walked here thinking it was redfern station, in the early 80's.

apparently it was a mortuary or something.

this wasn't taken on the same day.

2feb17

what do you do with all these? there at sydney tech

in ultimo , i had friends who lived close to there then

that's the main reason for putting 

these up. maybe someone will find it interesting. to me they were 

interesting at the time, and i was photo trigger happy also.

all these wall type ones are a mural along the front of the tech,

i don't know if they're still there. the astro boy looks 

different from these, although it is around the same time period

one of the artists' sister(artists who lived at the house)  hated this da vinci image,
 i still lived in the flat at this point in time. these are part of the first roll of film i took.

i think that astro boy is a few years later at the world center 

construction site.

this photo would be early 1985. it's at the wow squat in market street 

in wollongong, a few years after it was established, few meaning lest than 

3. the significance of this photo was the two coppers in shorts. a 

fairly uncommon sight back then. i took a couple of other photos
that day, as i remember, no negatives found.

i decided to throw this in, a few no hopers were squatting it first
then wow took over
probably like to say i was not affiliated with the artists or
the wow people, although i did know them.

what i've done here is, i decided to go and take a photo, today the

2 feb 2017 to see the change. them trees were planted 1988.

the squat building , although not used as such. lasted until  a 

few years ago, say 2014.

not sure exactly when this is 85/86, but i do know where it is, crown 

street wollongong. the path would have changed, i wonder it the 

water hydrant is still the same, maybe i can check it out. the 

car wont be there of course, i haven't seen it since.

85/86 unanderra car yard gimmick. another gimmick in the early 

70s was the mr browns hertz combi van, a car yard brought it in auction 

and displayed it right where them plants are. clink for mr brown story
doesn't end there local derra crim was in the same cell as mr brown for a while.

3feb2017

a couple of photos of my bike after the move from the flat

these are taken from mt nebo water tank, looking 

s.e.  85

same again , moved right a bit, i think that treed hill is 

called mt st thomas, behind the tree is wollongong

after seeing these photos after being developed. i didn't think much of them.

the view was great, even at night. it's defiantly you had to be
rather than photo

looking north east, that's mt keira over there. i never thought 

much of these photos.

this is a different time, still around the first couple of rolls of film.

this is a view of mt kembla from robertson lookout.

lake illawarra from robertson lookout

another view from robertson lookout. not to be confused with the place

 robertson. i checked out photos from the net, looks like they've put up 

a platform to safely look. no such thing when these were taken.

mt keira from robertson lookout. coming from sydney, 

get on picton road at the top of mt ousley truck stop 

there somewhere. there's a bridge there now left to go right.

drive past the mt keira turn off, take the next left.

look in google maps

 5feb17

looking straight down from robertson lookout is the mt keira 

scout camp. i'm not sure whether it's still open.

again 85/86, probably the first time i rode that bike to sydney.

under the bridge at a pillar

same place looking at opera house

luna park across the harbour

i like this photo, that rock reminds me of a lizard. the place is a 

high point looking west

looking down, just a  spot to stop and have a cig.

looking east

6feb2017
this is a fire trail behind the scramble/motocross track at
mt kembla. you see the power line tower at the top.

a view from the rock, that tree is what is left after a fire .
the tree doesn't burn but is killed be the heat. all the rest
of the scrub has grown since, maybe it was the 1968 fire.

what i think i've done here is walk along the rock and taken 

a better view spot. there was a 1993 fire and a 2000 and something 

fire so that tree might be gone

from the rock looking east, mt keira in the distant. mt nebo 

is the smaller hill to the right. it's hard to judge whether that's 

the road or a tree branch sticking out. looks like the road.

look at previous photo

with this , if you seen them other allens creek bridge photos, it's the same 

shift, different spot. this place is called coal bridge, it's where the train dump 

their coal loads. you really have to click the photo to see silly billy and 

mick cleaning the points where the white work ute is. i walked up the stairs to 

somewhere higher to take the photo. i rarely took the camera there.

7feb2017

a photo of mt kembla in the distance, taken from coal bridge the same time as 

the previous photo. to the left is the gas holders

you know you can see these power lines from unanderra.

i remember looking at them in primary school, just thinking

them 5 photos of the high rock stop. it's no use repeating myself.

you get the picture. i would n't mind walking up there some day

. i have never done that. it's not that far really

8feb2017

one of the reasons i decided to move in with the artists, was the 

house had a garage, which was great for the bike. this photo was 

taken just before i decided to ride to melbourne . one of the 

artist sister , yeah that one, invited me down there if i'd like to.

i took the coast road princes hwy ,1300km. i left about 12 noon someday in
 nov 85. this photo is in the early hours of the morning, at a place
called nar nar goon. i got a flat tyre not far out of a place called warrigal,
about 60km out of melbourne, and rode to this spot. it's easier riding on dirt
than on the bitumen road with a flat tyre. thinking this ain't gonna work. i had
to come up with a master plan. i could write a whole blog on this journey, but i wont.
i didn't just leave i told them i was coming and they said cool. so i found a phone
and rang them. they knew the place, i put the bike in the driveway of the little
paper shop there and left a note that i would pick it up later. i think people
were more trustworthy back then.

after a nights sleep , we went sight seeing. this is on the infamous bridge in 

melbourne oct 85.

these next few are going over the bridge with the view of 

melbourne city coming up

i done a google on the bridge, it's the west gate bridge. i wasn't sure there's 

abridge in tasmania that's just as infamous. i thought it was the west gate bridge

but wasn't sure and it is more infamous  than the tasmanian one

west gate bridge wiki

the driver of the car, james, was the artists sisters' boyfriend

one of his claim to fame was winning 5 dollers in a poker game 

off train robber ronald biggs. he worked as an apprentice 

carpenter on tv sets , didn't know it was him until after he fled .

the end is the tollway

we ended up here at a cemetery to check out an
elvis memorial grave site
 

the story with this is , some bloke painted a picture of elvis.
apparently with his eyes closed. the next day the eyes were open
or something. so they made this.
11feb 2017
they just built this as a memorial when elvis died.
the story about the picture was on one of those tv
shows years ago, i thought it was crap anyway.

10feb17
home james , after getting a ute lined up , we got the bike from
nar nar goon. this is in fitzroy

inside the house at fitzroy

i had a b/w roll of film.  i decided to try it out. this
was just a strange sight compared to wollongong even
nsw at the time. they were still using these old stamp vending
machines at the post office with 2cent stamps . at that time a
stamp was 27cents ,i had to get 14 for a postcard on a sunday.

just some sightseeing images are melbourne 85

i came back on the hume hwy. this is at glen rowan, ned kelly statue.
i had more b/w photos from the way home, don't know where the
negatives got. it costed more to get the b/w developed . i only ever
used this  one roll , i  didn't go much on the b/w. i think it's more of a light
thing. even old photos are better in colour , i'm a colour guy

the dog shat on the tuckerbox

wollongong pub

1988 darling harbour bicentennial'
reenacting the beginning