You really have an eye for things. Excellent:worship:.
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i have always gotten a strange feeling from (photographs and secondhand accounts of) brisbane, and i can't place it. it is as if this city is displaced or pastless or detached somehow. i can't get a good sense of the role it plays in australia's national consciousness. i don't have any sense of how it sees itself.
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Sydney and Melbourne may get all the love internationally, but Bris-Vegas knows how to shine. Great pics!
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Brisbane is on my list.
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Looks like a fun town.
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I love beautiful Brisbane and the Aussie lifestyle. Impressive photos!
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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4135/...6df8dcf1_b.jpg completely wowed me. The ocean almost looks as mountainous as the actual mountains in the background, and the people only complete the picture. Of course, the rest of your pics are equally jaw-dropping (as always), but that was my favorite. |
i got no reason to be there, but i imagine it would be some kinda change.
old man with a rat tailed mohawk in a business suit. works for me. i like the one nineties flava reposted too. i also don't know much, if anything, about brisbane. i'd heard of it before the floods last year, but that was about it. i'm certainly happy to see it by way of okayyou. |
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As always Okayyou - really appreciate your photos and thanks for posting. |
can't go wrong with an Okayyou photo thread. Top notch as always!
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Like most I don't have much of a sense of this place either. Most descriptions from the area seem to be from Surfer's Paradise / Gold Coast.
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Incredible thread & pics! Thanks for posting OkayYou!
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Brisbane is the capital city in one of the most decentralised states - only about ~40-50% of Queensland's population lives in its metro - compare to 75% of Victorians live in Melbourne and 65-70% of New South Welshmen live in Sydney. just for everyone's info - the photos (if you hadnt noticed) are mixed - Beachy/Pothead/Tatooed people: Byron, the rest are in Brisbane including the hinterland photos. |
Amazing is all I can say!
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What a great place! Nice looking city, surrounded by natural, rugged lands!
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Plenty of natural beauty to enjoy down there. Lovely!
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I really wasn't in Brisbane long enough to get a good feel for the citiy's identity. Like I said, it reminded me of Denver. Both have defined one major street in their CBD for pedestians. The scale of their buildings were about the same, Brisbane is building taller hi-rises currently. Architecturally Denver's new stuff is more bland and modest but Brisbane really seemed to lack any historic district. There were some nice Victorian government buildings but nothing like Denver's LoDo. Brisbane has the beach and Denver has the mountains. Neither city is really on the global radar but appear to fare quite well in their respective domestic standings. I probably wouldn't have stopped in Brisbane if I didn't have a friend living there.
I did manage to hit Surfer's paradise and the Gold Coast for a day, no pics though. Talk about a place with no past. Gold Coast reminded me of Miami or Ft. Luaderale, huge condos abutting miles of sunny beach. There was some monster condo project that looked brand new, I think this one, third tallest res building in the world. Again, thanks for all the comments. Plenty more threads to come. |
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