North Terrace is Adelaide's showcase of fine colonial buildings and includes the city's art gallery and state library.
Most of the time, it leads a life of quiet sandstone dignity, except when South Australians have a festival of the arts.
Then they romp.
This light show - called Northern Lights - on North Terrace coincided with Adelaide's Writers' Festival in February 2010.
Projections cast on the buildings drew attention to their design, bringing out their finest features.
Each projection lasted about three minutes, then would fade - to reveal a disappointed facade. After a theatrical pause, a new projection would sweep across the building, and all would be well again.
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| Moon over Adelaide's North Terrace |
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The light caught the leaves out |
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| Elder Hall: all frocked up. |
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| Same building, new frock |
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| ....ditto.. |
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| Close up of South Australia's state floral emblem: Sturt's desert pea |
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| Bonython Hall: one minute a vine-covered castle, then ... |
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| ...a pink palace... |
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| ...a red fort. |
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| The moon cast a sober light on such frivolity |
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| Will this building EVER live down its pink pillars? |
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