Sunshine Coast Daily Photo

Tuesday 31 July 2012

Stadium 2

In yesterday's photo, the scale of the covered tiered seating for the football field was clear. Is the word "Stadium" a hopeful description? Technically I am not sure if a stadium is defined as an oval structure or not. This one isn't! It's what in simpler times would have been called a "stand", but it does have two gates, appropriately numbered.

Kawana

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Stadium

Across the rowing course to the central sporting fields. The stadium stands alone, if it could only pivot it could be used for the water events as well!

Kawana

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Crab Pots

A few days ago I published a photo across the rowing course. The little floats that mark the rowing lanes could easily be mistaken for crab pot markers, it would serve the drunken poachers right if they set out one night to rob the traps!

Lake Kawana

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Out of sequence

Another faded gem, a little out of sequence, but this one I think has made the transition from garish billboard to public art.

Kawana Home Centre

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Public Precinct

There's a bit too much wind for comfortable rowing across the course today, but the view is of offices and theatre and public buildings. The scale is pleasant, but I am standing on one side of the lake, near the commercial centre and it's a good few kilometres to get to the other side.

We just have this fascination for decentralisation, and making public transport impossible!

Lake Kawana

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Lunch Room

Lunch room on Lake Kawana. It's nice to see that picnic structures don't just sit around until the weekend waiting for use.

Lake Kawana

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Lake Kawan(no A)

That's KawanA, but the vandals have made their point, whatever that is! It's hard to understand this sort of senselessness. Perhaps was souvenired for his Mum? "A" for "Mum"? ,,,,,, well that would sum up the intellectual capacity of the perpetrator!

Lake Kawana

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Oversupply

Long rows of empty tenancies still exist in numbers of places around the coast. This I think is probably more a testament to Council's less than commercially oriented planners as well as to the interesting geography of the city. With a small population spread over a relatively vast area, businesses can often have difficulty finding a location with access to sufficient customers to ensure survival.

Kawana

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Curious

It's interesting to see a solid concrete wall painted to look a bit like buff bricks, and perhaps even more interesting to see it made to look as though pieces are falling from it. I quite like it. I think.

Kawana

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Office Park

Perhaps a few more people would make this picture a happier place, particularly for the business owners but it must be said that the "bones" are there for a pleasant workplace.

Kawana

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Red

I wonder at the sort of person who buys a car to match the colour of the signs at work.

Kawana

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Intersection

Today, a taste of the mundane! An intersection on a collector road.

Kawana

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Trishaw

The trishaw is a prop for an interiors business, but it seems strangely in its place surrounded by the gently fading colours of the buildings.

Kawana

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Vast Difference

When I last photographed the banners at Vast Interiors, there were six of them, and they had visible graphics. I wonder if the owners miss them as much as I do.

Kawana

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Patina

Maybe there is some hope for those of us desperately seeking patina among the newness after all.

Kawana

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Monochrome is in this year.

No colour is the new colour when it comes to living room furnishing.

Kawana

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Faded Away

Not all of the graphics have survived. The carpet photos have completely gone, but then the steel framing on the sign is also on it's last legs. It really makes me wonder how it will look in a few hundred years!

Kawana

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Faded Super Graphics

Some colours fade quite happily. What were once bright yellows and reds are now quite pleasant pinks and oranges.

Kawana

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Fading Graphics

Although many of the graphics have faded unrecognisably, some are quite nifty, like what's left of this sleepy fellow who now bears some resemblance to a pencil sketch.

Kawana

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Super Graphics

Several years ago, I published a series on graphics in commercial buildings on the Coast. I thought it might be interesting to see how they are handling the elements.

Here the southern side of the building has just a little hint of smudge about it, but little fading.

Kawana

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Hospital

I'd like to report that this is the beginning of the new hospital, but it isn't, it's across the road though.

Kawana

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Help is on the way

It's kind of reassuring knowing these guys are around if something goes awry.

"Ambos"
Buderim

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Over the fence 2.

Swings, a shed, a few empty pots and a tilting fence.

Every back yard is a new and exciting adventure.

Buderim.

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Over the fence.

The top of the clothes hoist is peeking over the fence, trying to see what I'm up to I suppose.

Buderim backyard.

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Paper

It seems that of late it never stops raining, but the local paper delivery knows how to deal with that.

Buderim Chronicle

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Dividing strip.

Once upon a time there was a row of small palm trees planted along the dividing fence between two houses.

Buderim

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In the 'burbs.

Buderim is one of the older established suburbs on the coast, and it has a sort of leafiness that is difficult if not impossible to duplicate in the newer areas where the soil quality is poor verging on desert.

Buderim

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