Daylight Saving
I took this photo from my friends' balcony in Roseville the other night. This photo is a great illustration of why Sydney is such a good city to live in during summer. Daylight saving means that you can still do things in the evening after finishing work, rather than having to scurry home in darkness.
Daylight saving does have a downside however. For some perverse reason Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia don't observe daylight saving and Tasmania starts early. This means that for a sizeable portion of the year there are actually five times zones across the country! The resistace to daylight saving in the north is primarily due to the evenings already being long enough in the tropics, but arguments about cows having to be milked earlier and the curtains being more likely to fade (I think Flo Bjelke-Petersen, former Senator and wife of Queensland's most infamous Premier, is responsible for that one) are sometimes wheeled out.
I meet a guy who was from Tweed Heads whilst I was visiting Tonga a couple of years ago. He told me that even though his family lived on the New South Wales side of the border, both he and his mother used to work in Queensland. As a consequence half the family operated on Quensland time and the other half kept their watches on New South Wales time.
So if you're heading to Brisbane keep in mind that you'll be travelling back in time.
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5 Comments:
Great shot. Great sky colors. Not bad for 7:30 pm.
Neat!
So, you are BHR? I keep seeing your comments on www.grabyourfolk.blogspot.com (and I hope you voted for it on www.accidentalhedonist.com), so I clicked over to have a stickybeak.
Nice work.
I like the Coogee shots.
Errr R means http://grabyourfork.blogspot.com.
I've always found sunset shots hard to take. Looks fab to the naked eye, but muted through the viewfinder. Plus you only get a tiny window of spectacularness.
Summer light in Sydney in good, but it's even better in Europe where it stays light until 11pm. Now that was cool. Not to mention Scandinavia where they get the midnight sun etc. On the flip side you get depressingly short days in winter. You win some, you lose some.
Great photos. I hope to visit your country someday. Happy new year to you.
Very first of all, this photo is great. Like the low horizont and that it is really bright, light. You get a very warm feeling by looking at it.
On the daylight saving otherwise: I am from Hungary, where sun sets after 8, basically you can read open air till maybe 9pm, but yes, at winter it might get dark before 4pm. However, it's so cold anyway, that you just want to get home and snugle up under your blanky.
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