Photos: Australia: Let the light show begin!

The light show continues every night from 6 p.m. to midnight through June 9.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

Spectators snap photos during the Vivid Sydney festival that continues through June 9.   (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

The huge, free nightly light show is part of the festival created six years ago.  (Mark Metcalfe / Getty Images)

The light show this year promises to take viewers on an architectural journey through time, from the beginning of civilization to modern technology.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

The event, which drew 800,000 visitors last year, adds lighted-up ferries and vessels in the harbor for 2014.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

Aside from the light show, there are about 200 music and creative events that are part of the two-week festival.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

The 3-D mapped building projections are created by a company called 59 Productions, which also worked on the 2012 Olympic Summer Games in London.  (Peter Parks / AFP/Getty Images)

Visitors wander past a large lighted rabbit Friday during the beginning of the Vivid Sydney festival.  (Rob Griffith / Associated Press)

Sydney Harbour, with the Opera House, bridge and other buildings getting the light treatment.  (James Morgan / Destination New South Wales)