Middle Head

The other day I went out to a place in Sydney Harbour called ‘Middle Head’ which I knew of but hadn’t been to before. The day after I got back to Australia, my digital camera kinda broke so I can’t transfer pictures directly to my iPod. I actually have to use another digital camera hooked up to my computer - how annoyment!

In short, it means I am very limited in the number of photos I can take. I would normally take several hundred photos in a location like this to experiment with composition to get the best shot. I almost feel naked being limited to 40 photos!

Basically Middle Head was a military barracks leading into Sydney Harbour. Thus it had large guns here to destroy any unwanted ships trying to get into Sydney Harbour. This is a general layout of part of the area. It is a little surreal with the rolling forms.



Another shot with people to try to give a sense of the size of the place.



Another place and curious trying to figure out why the mounds slope in the ways that they do. The closest I can come up with is that it would be easier to move equipment around but doesn’t make much sense. Cutting the stone on those angles would be much more difficult than having square shapes.



Guns use to sit in this type of circular embankments and were on rails to move around. Thus the weapons could point to North or South Head