Tim Ritchie
timritchie.bsky.social
Tim Ritchie
@timritchie.bsky.social
I like taking pics
A simple dawn urban silhouette in Sydney’s Surry Hills. Lines and angles, antennas and sewer vents, some foliage and a glinting cloud.
November 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Checking in on the continuing rehabilitation of the mangroves at Woolooware Bay on Botany Bay on a crepuscular ray Sydney dawn.
November 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
On a cool morning ahead of a beautiful warm spring Sydney day, I’ve made my way to La Perouse. This is the bridge across to Bare Island and affords a great view of the opening to Botany Bay and dawn yellows.
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I have an appointment at St Vincent’s (just a check up, nothing scary), dropped off wife at work, daughter at her work, and running early.
So went to Elizabeth Bay and saw some bull shark burly.
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I spend a lot of time in the shadows, stalking out a sleeping city, being places usually teeming with people, but empty for me. Sunrises are fine, but painting a scene with scant urban lights tickles my brain.
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Out at stupid o’clock again I find myself at Balmain. Once a slum, now housing here unaffordable to most people. And also the bedroom to some of the Sydney Harbour Ferry Fleet.
November 8, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Before the sunrise, before the showers, before the possible thunderstorm…. The old brick works at Sydney’s St Peters stands still as the clouds race by.
November 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ruby (the staffy cross) is behind my resting in the long grasses while I get some vitamin D sitting in Wimbo Park, Surry Hills.
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Nestled in the south west corner of Sydney’s Centennial Park is a great spot to grab a sunrise at this time of year.
November 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
A dawn of hues above a waking Sydney.
November 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A nicely crisp Sydney dawn. Clear sky, rising floors.
November 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I know I spend too much time at Bronte’s ocean pool. It is such a photogenic part of Sydney, even on a cool and cloudy dawn, it calls me and those fit folk who put in the laps.
November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Graffiti in the parts of Sydney that I visit most is stuck in time. Nothing added in the last couple of decades, and there’s a strange appeal. Not quite a museum, but a time capsule.
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sydney’s Woolloomooloo is full of contradictions. On a dawn resplendent with lovely spring clouds, you can note warships and luxury ocean boats. The wharf has fine dining with a pie truck out the front. Public housing next to multi million dollar houses.
I love it.
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
November 1, 2025 at 7:40 AM
My Melbourne mission is complete, out for a stroll on a clear morning before heading back to Sydney to present When The Levee Breaks on 2SER tonight, 6-8pm.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you’re a Sydneysider, you might have heard some heavy overnight rain. Before dawn it was a solid blanket of cloud, but as the sun got involved, it burnt off.
Centennial Park in dawn glory.
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It’s a still morning after some overnight drizzle. The Tasman Sea meets the light cloud, the demarcation line is hard to make out as the slight sunrise sits just above the horizon.
A Sydney delight.
October 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I love the somewhat timeless nature of the old dunny lanes of Sydney. This one is in the glamorous suburb of Paddington, but looks the same as the lanes in the less salubrious suburbs.
It felt like autumn this morning. Cool and cloudy.
October 27, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In the late 1970s, I briefly lived in Sydney’s Kirribilli, not on the harbour foreshore, but next to a noisy expressway.
This shot is from the Beulah Street Wharf. It’s popular with fishers, but seldomly visited by ferries.
October 26, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The glow of dawn is behind me as I look at the scene of a Sydney ritual. You dive or jump in on one side of Clovelly Bay, swim to the other side, run around the bay, then repeat.
October 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
When first light was trying to push through the clouds, I made my way to Blues Point.
Apart from a piece of contentious architecture behind, it is a peaceful place to take in the glories of Sydney Harbour.
October 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Colonial Sydney cherished Blackwattle Bay.
When first used, the bay was a swampy inlet fed by a creek that ran from its eastern end. Industrial use by tanners and slaughter houses caused the area to be fouled by noxious fumes and there were many complaints by the residents.
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A much cooler dawn and day ahead for Sydney.
A placid scene as I looked across the harbour from Barangaroo Reserve to North Sydney.
October 22, 2025 at 8:10 PM
On what looks like a cool, cloudy dawn at Sydney’s Bronte Beach ocean pool is only partly correct.
It is cloudy, but the forecast of 39C will be the hottest October day on record if we get there.
I’ve watered the garden and have washing on ready for the line.
October 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM