366 days / 1775 days

I started uploading photos taken in 2020 to Flickr on February 27, 2020, including these:

6th birthday cake Alice in Wonderland cupcakes

Later in 2020 it became A Thing to count every day as part of March 2020 (ie, today is the 1773rd of March, 2020), In that spirit, today is the 1775th, and also the last, day of 2020 in terms of my photo processing.

Fittingly, today’s final upload features these “2020 SUCKS” cupcakes my kids decorated on December 31:

2020 sucks cupcakes

2020 retrospective

Fires

New Year's Day, 2020

More (and, December 2019)

Rain

By the time I was uploading my mediocre videos of heavy rain from January and February of 2020 (this one was uploaded in January 2024), it was becoming a little hard to remember why I was so excited about it.

Rain at Victoria Rd and Darling St, Rozelle, time lapse

Video

March/April COVID-19 lockdown

Adore Pharmacy Rozelle entry warning, March 2020

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Autumn, Japanese maple edition

Backlit Japanese maple

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Autumn, there are in fact other varieties of tree edition

Last light on autumn leaves

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Autumn, Auburn Botanic Gardens edition

Backlit leaves

More, bonus snake

Autumn, morning walk after rain edition

Autumn leaves on windscreen

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Winter rains

Wet leaves

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Blue Mountains getaway

Backlit shrubs

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Bay Run at night

City lights reflected, Bay Run

More, September at sunset

Spring rains

Tulip

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Boxing Day storm

Boxing Day storm front

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Storm over Sydney, New Year’s Eve 2018

The dramatic storm that ended 2018 by soaking most of the people who’d been waiting 12 hours for a fireworks show was not forecast, but it also wasn’t entirely unheralded. Here’s the sky 2 hours before it struck:

Storm gathers over Sydney, New Year's Eve 2018
Storm over Sydney, New Year's Eve 2018

However, it wasn’t until later that this was heralded on the radar:

Storm building over Sydney, New Years Eve 2018

I went to the north of the island to see if I could see the storm cell; hearing a security guard’s radio piping up about moving all guests into shelter. Promising! I was not disappointed:

Sydney storm cell, New Year's Eve 2018
Storm cell over Hunter's Hill, New Year's Eve 2018
Rain foot, New Year's Eve 2018

I hurried back; as I did the loudspeakers started to call everyone into the old machinerary sheds due to a “dangerous storm”; we were probably some of the few New Year’s Eve revellers around the harbour who could take shelter that evening.

I made it before the rain did. However, I wasn’t quite the last one in:

Taking shelter from the storm, New Year's Eve 2018

We were out in time for the party:

Rain dance

Other photos of New Year’s Eve (in progress).