Visit to Sydney
Me in Sydney Earlier this week I was in Sydney for 15th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy, where I had two papers being presented: One-time-password-authenticated key exchange (joint work with Kenny Paterson, Royal Holloway, University of London) and Predicate-based key exchange (joint work with James Birkett, Queensland University of Technology).
Sydney Opera House on Bennelong Point After the conference was done on Wednesday, I spent the afternoon wandering around downtown Sydney. It was drizzling rain early in the afternoon, but that cleared up and it was a lovely day. The Sydney Opera House was of course a prime subject for photography. The best view of it was from one of the pylon lookouts on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which provided the viewpoint for the picture at right as well as the following two panorama shots.
Side view of Sydney Opera House at night I then took the Manly ferry across the harbour to the seaside town of Manly, where I wandered around and watched cool surfers in the cold water. Coming back across the harbour on the ferry, it was dark, and the city was beautifully lit up. 
Sydney Harbour Bridge at night I spent some time taking long exposure night pictures, some of which came out very well, I think, before heading off to dinner at a fantastic little Italian restaurant with a line-up out the door. And then back to the airport for my flight back to Brisbane.
The rest of my pictures from Sydney are available in my Sydney gallery.
Comment by Stefan Williams
Hi Douglas,
I’m currently organizing the Robotics: Science and Systems conference to be held in Sydney in July 2012. I came across your photo of Sydney Harbour when searching for nice panoramas to showcase our city. I thought this was a great shot and really captured the city (although a few people have suggested that the clouds may misrepresent all the glorious sunny days we have here). I was wondering if you would be alright with us using this shot on our website. We are about to start publicizing the conference but thought I should check with you first.
Hope you enjoyed your stay here!
Stefan
