Sunday Selections #406

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen. 
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.  This week?  I am continuing to show you some of what Dinahmow and I did during her visit.

A few more shots from the zoo.

The tiger was very dainty in the way she took pieces of meat from the tongs.  Which I expect means she wasn't hungry.

A dingo.  Zoo brother sometimes 'has' to walk dingo pups.  Goodness how he suffers.  I do wonder how many pure-bred dingoes are left.  Not many I suspect.

A Siamang Gibbon

All of the zebras were determinedly putting their best side forward.  I ONLY got butt shots.

 A Cape Barren Goose.  Amazingly early explorers apparently thought they were the young of our black swans.

An African painted dog.  I was fascinated to learn (on an earlier zoo visit) just how intricate their social structure is.  They greet each other at the start of a day and mourn their dead among other things.

And then to snippets from Dinahmow's last day.  I adore our National Library and took her there to see the impressive lead-light windows in the foyer.

And then we got side-tracked by the sculptures outside...

 

This was a new sculpture (and only there on a temporary basis).  It is by Suzie Bleach and Andrew Townsend and called Camouflage.   It is described as the life-size portrait of a horse - wearing the mask of a bull.  

Intriguing.

Believe it or not, these photos are the same sculpture taken from different angles.  Einstein as the dove of peace.  They are on one side of our interactive Science Museum - Questacon.

The other sculptures are arranged on the steps to the entrance to Questacon.  I loved the birds perching on Darwin's head and shoulders. 

It really was a delightful visit and as I have said before, she is welcome to return.  I am confident that my well known boring city will find things to interest her.  

I am less chipmunk like and in recovery mode.  Thank you for your supportive words.

More from Enlighten 2016

This is the final post in the Enlighten 2016 series.  I started with a Sunday Selections devoted to the rabbit sub-theme, which you can find  here.  Then to another Sunday Selections featuring jelly fish which is here, and then to the first half of the illuminations in this post.

This is another photo-heavy post.

I thoroughly enjoyed Enlighten but in the last few days have read something which has taken some of the shine off.  Our local government commissioned young and emerging artists to design the projections for the buildings.  Sadly they decided that having the work publically displayed was sufficient payment.  The outcry has been such that I hope in future years the artists WILL get financial recognition too.

More coloured eucalypts.

Starting at Old Parliament House.  Many of the illuminations were political in nature.

Moving to Questacon, our interactive Science and Technology Centre.  Most, but not all, of the projections were geometric.

 There was a hologram of a spider outside the first night we visited, and it was echoed on the walls on the last night.

Then to two acrobatic performances near by - both making use of hoops inset with neon lights.  They moved too fast for my camera, but I think (hope) that the blur conveys some of the mood.

Then to the National Library.  With the exception of the ubiquitous rabbits, their illuminations reference the recent exhibition about Celestial China.

 Nearly finished now.  Just two random acts, splashes of colour and quirkiness.

It really is an explosion of light, colour (and sound) isn't it?