MashfordPhotographs

33°23′S 151°21′ECentral Coast, NSW

A green-and-cream harbour ferry crossing the harbour in front of the Sydney Opera House in late sun

Harbour

No.
01 / 04
Work
City
Year
2026
Frames
13

One long afternoon on Sydney Harbour, from the glass towers at Barangaroo round to Circular Quay. Ferries, the bridge from underneath, and the Opera House as the sun dropped and turned the sails gold.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge seen from below, its steel arch crossing a cloud-streaked sky
From below
A granite pylon of the Harbour Bridge rising beside the arch
Pylon
Looking up the underside of the bridge arch towards Kirribilli
Underneath

The harbour changes by the minute in that last hour. Most of the day is spent waiting for it.

Circular Quay

4 frames

  1. The Opera House on Bennelong Point, sails lit warm against a blue sky

    01 Bennelong Point

  2. A tall ship moored at the wharves below The Rocks and the city skyline

    02 The Rocks

  3. The Harbour Bridge arching over harbourside buildings and wharf piles

    03 The arch

  4. Commuters in silhouette on the Circular Quay platform, the bridge framed beyond

    04 Platform

Close view of two Opera House sails glowing in late light, a gull overhead
Sails

Ten minutes of gold before the shade came across.

Crown Sydney's twisting glass tower against a deep blue sky at Barangaroo
Barangaroo
Barangaroo towers reflected over the water from the harbour foreshore
Foreshore
A white cruiser cutting across the harbour in front of Kirribilli apartments
Kirribilli
A crushed red car pinned under a boulder, a sculpture against sandstone walls on Pottinger Street
Pottinger Street

Not everything on the walk was postcard.

Photography
Matthew Mashford

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