20 Hour Day

A friend of mine recently introduced me to an awesome website..www.aquabumps.com. Photographer Eugene Tan takes pictures everyday at Bondi and has a rad gallery a few blocks up from the beach. His pictures are amazing! Last Thursday, he posted an unreal sunrise picture of Bondi and I immediately wanted to try and capture the same thing. Much to my surprise, my good friends TJ, Nick, and Michael agreed to come along for the adventure. We caught the 4:58am bus from Epping and traveled the hour and a half bus ride to Bondi to make the 6:25am sunrise. Although it wasn't as spectacular a sunrise as I had hoped for (there were no clouds to bounce the color off of) it was still very beautiful! Between the four of us, we had two Canons and one Nikon camera. After taking some awesome early morning pictures, we had breakfast at a small cafe and was shocked to discover that it was only 8am! We decided to hike south along the cliffs for a mile or so...this was some of the best scenery I have scene in Australia so far! It was absolutely beautiful. We made it to Tamarama Beach and although the waves haven't been too big recently, there were still a few 'spongers' out in the water. After a few more hours, we headed back home to Macquarie for a much needed break which of course didn't last very long. All of us had bought the day trip pass for $17 which includes unlimited use of bus, train and ferry for the entire day. We left campus around 4pm, took the train downtown, and got on the ferry to Manly Beach to catch the sunset. As luck would have it, the clouds rolled in and we couldn't see the sunset but we were able to get some sweet night time pictures down by the water. To end the night, TJ, Nick, Michael and I got off the train at Milson's Point to explore Luna Park (an amusement park down at the harbor). It was a blast! We set the camera on a slow shutter speed to catch the lights of the ferris wheel which resulted in some pretty rad pictures. By the end of the night, we were extremely exhausted....a 20 hour day to be exact! I had so much fun hanging out with these fellow photographers....between the four of us we took around 1,800 pictures! As excited as I am to post them, they might take awhile!