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Port Authority

View looking south from the Blues Point Reserve, near Lavender Bay and McMahon's Point, Sydney.

 

In the distance you can see Sydney Observatory, built in 1857, as well as the historic rotunda on Observatory Hill. When my daughters were little we would go to the Observatory for amazing astronomy workshops, and then have a picnic in this rotunda.

 

To the right, in this image, is the controversial new Crown Casino building. It overlooks Barangaroo and Darling Harbour.

 

In the foreground, on the harbour, you can see a tugboat owned by the Sydney 'Port Authority' - one of two fire-fighting tugboats that each have a capacity for delivering 16,000 litres of water per minute, part of a number of emergency response vessels and specialised equipment used for fire-fighting, oil spill response, salvage and providing assistance to stricken vessels on Sydney harbour.

 

My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV, with the Canon 24-105mm lens.

Now this is definitely a shot that would have been better with the Canon 70-200mm lens, which, as yet, I do not have.

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Uploaded on December 6, 2020
Taken on November 30, 2020