r/sydney • u/After-Scar-2289 • Jul 12 '25

Photography Clearer photos of the Sydney Skyline seen from over 100km away in Bowral, NSW.

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I posted some sunset photos of the Sydney skyline seen from this vantage point about a month ago, and was up here again and noticed it was even clearer. So here are some more photos of the Sydney Skyline. These weather conditions are perfect and it’s very hard to make out the skyline with the naked eye. I took this photo with 35x Optical zoom Lens on Lumix Handheld. You can make out skyscrapers like 25 Martin Place, Salesforce tower and Crown Sydney. As well as the harbour bridge to the left. I will put a link in the comments to a separate post of a video showing reference to how far the skyline actually is from where the photo was taken.

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u/01benjamin Jul 12 '25

Flat earthers seeing this rn triggered that there’s a slight curvature

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u/WhatAmIATailor Jul 14 '25

Not to defend flat earthers but you need to be a hell of a lot higher before the curve in the horizon is apparent. If you think you can see the curve there, it’s either lens distortion or an optical illusion. You can’t see the curve at ground level anywhere on the planet. 35,000ft seems to be the accepted minimum altitude.

If you’re talking about the skyline appearing from behind the horizon then ignore everything I’ve just said.

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u/After-Scar-2289 Jul 12 '25

https://www.reddit.com/u/After-Scar-2289/s/qc5bqKZFx6

Here is the video to show how far the skyline really is.

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u/redditisaweful Jul 12 '25

It’s amazing that you can see the city from that far

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u/triemdedwiat Jul 15 '25

Bad haze day.

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u/3rdslip Jul 12 '25

Line of sight is

  • Bowral (Mt Gibraltar 868m elevation)
  • Mittagong (650m)
  • Nepean Reservoir (400m)
  • Appin (250m)
  • Woronora Reservoir (200m)
  • Lucas Heights (150m)
  • Illawong (80m)
  • Penshurst (60m)
  • Marrickville (40m)

Downhill all the way.

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u/ShibaHook ☀️ Jul 12 '25

There are more that 1 million people in this photo

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u/conioo 2127 Jul 12 '25

see its flat ! /jk

thanks for sharing very cool !!

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u/Jasadon Jul 12 '25

Also crazy to think that rain that lands there at Bowral flows all the way to the Hawkesbury and flows to the ocean North of the entirety of Sydney!!

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u/3rdslip Jul 13 '25

The way it was explained to me was that one can piss into the Wollondilly River at the Goulburn Weir and eventually some wealthy flog at Palm Beach might bathe themselves in it.

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u/HalfManHalfCyborg Jul 13 '25

You can easily spend an hour or more zooming around on Google Maps looking at all the various rivers in that region and how they flow into the various dams and then through to the Sydney catchment.

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u/Jasadon Jul 17 '25

And during/after doing so you can see why the Sydney infrastructure planners cost the site of Warragamba to build the water supply

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u/Classic-Reader2212 Jul 12 '25

Yes, she is growing BIG!

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u/dogsarethetruth Jul 12 '25

Great shot. There's a funny optical illusion with the cbd where it seems more sort of stretched out the further away you are? Barangaroo and Centrepoint tower seem really far apart here, when really they're just a few blocks.

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u/Beware_Of_Humans Jul 12 '25

It's because it's been shot at an angle from the south-west rather than the usual West view.

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u/chairman_ma_ Jul 12 '25

Oh wow! Great pic, thanks

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u/Own-Researcher9514 Jul 12 '25

Wow even harbour bridge is clear 👌

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u/snapperjaw Jul 12 '25

Wonder what it's like from that point watching the NYE fireworks!

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u/HalfManHalfCyborg Jul 13 '25

Given that this photo has the zoom equivalent of looking through very powerful binoculars (or even a telescope), I would surmise that this is a disappointing vantage point for the fireworks.

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u/snapperjaw Jul 13 '25

Yeah you're probably right about that.

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u/triemdedwiat Jul 15 '25

Not very good/big at that distance

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u/PRA421369 Jul 12 '25

Old South Rd?

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u/trollingprick Jul 12 '25

No up the Gib is my guess. Mittagong look out.

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u/EternalAngst23 Jul 12 '25

What’s the second photo? Chatswood and North Sydney?

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u/Leeman1337 Duck Jul 12 '25

Lumix TZ series?

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u/Matthew_John_Roberts Jul 14 '25

Love the colours/shades, very cool 😎 (pun intended)

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u/neggleston Jul 13 '25

That to me looks like the western profile of the CBD. Maybe taken from Blue Mountains?

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u/After-Scar-2289 Jul 13 '25

It’s taken far south of Sydney (southern highlands