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25-Mar-2011 AKMC

110325_165755_4355 Red Balloons, Grey Skies (Fri 25 Mar 11)

Accenture Building, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont, NSW

Feast or famine! I left getting my PAD shot until the evening because I knew that I was going to the Opera House that night and that there may be some decent harbour-dusk shots on offer. However on my way there I noticed these red internally-lit balloons which had been put out for a Doltone House function in the Accenture building, and was struck by how they contrasted against a band of raincloud that was over the sky at that time.

The Olympus didn't do badly though the result was a touch noisier than I'd like even at a relatively low ISO 400.

It did rather better at the Opera House, as the next shots will show.
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Edit September 2024: Accenture departed the scene some time after 2017, and Google took up yet more space, just as it acquired the nearby former Fairfax Media and Channel 7 buildings. It's a wonder the poor thing can afford all that property, given that it only makes a pittance in Australia and therefore isn't liable to very much tax at all relative to the revenue that it earns here.

Olympus E-P1 ,Olympus Zuiko 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6
1/800s f/5.6 at 33.0mm iso400 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
Mairéad01-Mar-2015 21:41
Don't know how I missed this one before. I really like it. The old Pen did well.
Julie Oldfield01-Nov-2013 22:33
Live the reds against the grays! V
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