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Quay Quarter Tower is a skyscraper located at 50 Bridge Street, Sydney, Australia. Built as the AMP Centre in 1976, the structure underwent a redevelopment from 2018 to 2021 which increased its height, introduced cantilevers, created additional office space, and modernised the tower's overall form and design. Wikipedia
The Quay Quarter is a 206-metre, 49-storey Tower building at Circular Quay and is a mixed-use development containing offices, apartments, retail, and restaurants. The centerpiece, Quay Quarter Tower, is an innovative skyscraper designed as a "vertical village," featuring adaptable workspaces, integrated technology, and numerous sky terraces and public spaces to foster community and well-being.
Quay Quarter Tower
The Quay Quarter Tower (QQT) is a once-in-a-generation project. Located on the edge of Sydney’s bustling Circular Quay, the tower “upcycles” the existing AMP Centre tower. Built only in 1976, the original AMP Centre was reaching the end of its usable lifespan, but rather than simply tear it down and start over, the project team set out to reach an ambitious goal: to reuse as much of the existing building and set a lofty new standard for what is possible for adaptive reuse in architecture.
Today, that goal has been achieved. QQT retains over 65% of the original structure (beams, columns, and slabs) and 95% of the original core, resulting in an embodied carbon saving of 12,000 tonnes (the equivalent of 35,000 flights between Sydney and Melbourne).
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This is a vertical panorama of the impressive Crown Casino Building on the waterfront at Barangaroo, near Darling Harbour, Sydney.
I uploaded it to Google Gemini Ai Engine and asked it to slightly correct the vertical alignment and to straighten a few rectangular buildings either side. Its response was to perfectly execute the vertical alignment but it completely removed the small highrise buildings on either side of the image.
I decided to go with Gemini's product as the exercise was just a bit of creative fun.
The vertical panorama process taken on an iPhone does often distort the image by creating a bulbous lower section while tapering the top sections.
In this case nevertheless it has produced an interesting artistic result which is best viewed as large as possible (click on the image to enlarge).
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I was in Sydney for several weeks during September 2025 and I've got around the city using the buses and trains using an Opal Card as well as Uber, so I've been doing a few walks and trips to various places, though only taking an occasional photo.
The weather is usually pretty mild during September though wind and cloudy weather can often occur during parts of some days. This September has been no exception with all 4 seasons on display at various times.
The one thing that has struck me, having travelled widely around the world, is the awesome natural beauty of Sydney Harbour and the Sydney coastline.
Sydney's commercial and urban development, especially around the harbour is indeed also impressive and one could take great images almost anywhere around the harbour.
What do others think, is Sydney the world's most scenic city?
In my humble view, I do believe that it is and I've not visited any other city around the world that, across all categories, matches Sydney.
Feel free to tell me if I'm wrong, or if you have a different favourite city.
This image is a handheld IPhone 14 Pro Max panorama taken on the timber wharf at Barangaroo, near Darling Harbour, Sydney.
I uploaded it to Google Gemini to see how Gemini might fare in editing it and it did a pretty good job removing a few people, slightly adjusting the water and sky colour and cloud definition.
Overall, the image basically retains its original composition and content and demonstrates that with reasonably articulate well written instructions as to what you want done Gemini can pretty much do anything you ask of it.
In this day and age and with a bit of learning any person can use an Ai editing engine like Google Gemini to make minor or even substantial alterations to an image to improve an image's final presentation.
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In late September 2025 I became aware that Google Gemini Ai engine had enabled image editing. This is my first foray into using its capability and I am reasonably pleased with the result. The original image was dull, taken later in the afternoon on a cloudy day. Strong shadowing on the vegetation also needed adjustment. There were also lots of people on the beach and two vertical sign posts present which I asked to be removed. Gemini did initially have problems cropping a black section from the bottom right corner but that may have been my inability to correctly articulate what I wanted done. After two written requests though it did correctly clone and removed it.
I have very basic understanding of of the processes and terminology that Gemini recognises so that is perhaps a learning curve.Presumably if one can articulate what you want done to the photo in terms the Ai can understand then potentially the sky is the limit.
While it seems to be a more time consuming process than editing in an app like Luminar Neo maybe it’s worth playing around with, at least for some creative fun.
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Family : Megapodiidae
Photographed at Shelly Beach at Cabbage Tree Bay, Manly, Sydney, NSW.
The Australian Brush-turkey, also known as the Australian Brushturkey or Scrub Turkey, belongs to the family **Megapodiidae**. This family, commonly known as the megapodes or mound-builders, includes birds that are known for their unique nesting behavior, where they build large mounds of organic material to incubate their eggs. The Australian Brush-turkey (*Alectura lathami*) is one of three megapode species found in Australia.
I edited this image in Google Gemini Ai.
It’s my second time using this amazing Ai engine. I asked Gemini to improve an otherwise dull image by reducing shadowing, replacing the sky and removing artifacts like people on the beach in the background.
In the original image the Brush Turkey’s head is naturally looking directly at the camera, as you might expect as I was so close to it while taking the image. However, I asked Gemini to turn the head so as to produce a full side on view of the bird.
I also asked Gemini to add the Scientific Name and Common Name as well as a Black Diamond Images Logo in the left corner.
Gemini clearly has great capability and demonstrates conclusively that anyone, with the right articulation, can achieve incredible change/improvements to almost any image.
Of course some will resist the use of Ai in image editing however its use is already evident in many images seen on Flickr.
For many it’s just another creative tool, albeit an incredibly powerful one and it seems Ai will feature in most images posted to social media going forward.
This means though that one should view with great scepticism most if not all images in the public domain as far as being accurate representations of the actual scene, object or subject being portrayed in the posted image.
While my own use of Ai engines in editing has increased in the last year or so, as a believer in basic realism, the maintenance of the original basic structure and composition always remains my intention so as to retain my images as close to reality as is possible.
In a dramatic move to reclaim its technological throne, Intel is preparing to unveil technical details for its upcoming laptop chip codenamed Intel Panther Lake. According to four sources who spoke with Reuters, the chipmaker plans to make the announcement this Thursday, marking a pivotal moment in the company's ambitious turnaround strategy. This reveal is part of Intel's concerted effort to reassure investors about its first product built entirely on its next-generation 18A manufacturing process—a multi-billion dollar bet that could determine the company's future in the fiercely competitive semiconductor industry. The Intel Panther Lake chips represent more than just a product launch; they are a symbol of Intel's desperate fight to reverse years of manufacturing stumbles and market share losses to rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). For an industry watching Intel's every move, this announcement carries the weight of a corporate resurrection.
The Intel Panther Lake processors are Intel's high-end mobile chips typically found in premium laptops, and they are poised to become the first high-volume Intel products utilizing the revolutionary 18A manufacturing node. This technological leap is crucial for Intel, which has consistently ceded laptop and PC market share to its rivals, partly due to manufacturing missteps. The previous generation of laptop chips, known as Lunar Lake, were primarily manufactured by Intel's rival, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).
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