Yesterday, I went to the
Sydney Royal Easter Show (or
"The Show" in common speech) with my mum. From what I had
heard over the years, it's sort of like a really big state
fair, although granted, mostly what I have heard about the
show is how the "show bags" aren't as good as they used to
be. Mum seemed to take offence at such a characterization,
because what makes The Show special is the scale of the
thing (
to wit: really big), and after spending a day at
The Show, I have to admit The Show is special.
First of all, each district in the state of New South Wales
(and one district from Queensland) put together funny
displays made up of entirely by the produce and agricultural
products of the region. Next they have these overpriced
plastic bags full of junk food, which are apparently not as
good as what they used to be in years gone past. These bags
are called "show bags", presumably after The Show.
There are a lot of farm animals, and judging of farm
animals, which to the untrained eye might look a lot like a
really big state fair.
In the feats of strength category was the wood chop.
According to the announcer at the wood chop, this was the
Wimbledon of wood chop. That's pretty good since I've never
even been to the Wimbledon of tennis. Anyway, the
Australian pictured in green above, had been the world
champion about 12 times of the event where one guy saws a
big log in half. He came in second this year (we were there
for the final), and he was the first one to congratulate the
winner, which I thought was super sporting of him. The
atmosphere was really nice. For most events, the crowed
cheered for pretty much everyone, even for the guys who came
in last (which is still quite an accomplishment in the
finals).
At the main arena, we saw the Holden Stormriders, who are a
bit like the blue angels, except for instead of flying blue
hornets, they drive red
utes. They were
pretty impressive; although I believe considerably less so
if you've ever ridden in a New York City taxi. After the
red utes, were flying motorcycles, and the human cannonball.
For some reason, the human cannonball was a woman from
America. You'd think that they could find one person in all
of Australia to act as a projectile. At the very end there
were lots of fireworks and it was all very pretty. I'd do it
again next year. I took lots of pictures. There are some
more here:
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Date: 2006-04-10 03:09 pm (UTC)I shoot w a canon 20d.. Ive only had it for a few months so Im still getting used to everything. But, so far I really love it. :)
Have any interesting photo projects your working on or would like to lately?
I have a few in mind.. but cant do them just yet..
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Date: 2006-04-10 03:36 pm (UTC). get a tripod and do some night photograhpy, esp. around the Quays and the harbour bridge, now that I live in Sydney and it's is so accessible.
. setup a darkroom and get back into black and white; I refuse to let others print my b&w now that I know how to do it myself.
. setup a studio (I like playing with lights) and do some portrait work... except I don't really have the people skills, but I can dream right?
Anyway, it's cool that you have some ideas, you should definitely run with that. Mostly I want to get new equipment to play with, which is bad because stuff is expensive.