During our trip to Melbourne, and the main reason for visiting South Wharf, we had the treat of visiting The Lume – an exhibition centre that was showing an audio-visual spectacular of van Gogh’s life and work. I believe the exhibition has a permanent home there and I do know that it was designed in …
A lightning fast trip to Australia to see our son and family – once the Australian government had opened their borders and a return visit to South Wharf – the location of the first one-day workshop I’d taken part in, with Tom Putt. I thought I’d like to include a gallery of the shots I …
Every time we arrive at Tullamarine and are driven through Melbourne on our way to our son’s place, I say … “I must take some shots of the night skyline”. This time I managed to find the time and the weather to get into the city and spend a couple of hours as the sun …
By way of a test for my new “strategy” of posting to Facebook, here’s a preview of an image that will be posted in a few days of the Yarra River waterfront at dusk – I should probably have scrubbed out the crane – only just noticed it! [PS Scrapped that strategy in late-2018 after …
Is it just me, or is there not something rather ‘nice’ about this image – sort of cultures clashing but with a sense of belonging too. Anyway, I like it. Taken near St Kilda, Melbourne several years ago.
This shot was taken in Melbourne in 2008 on my first Photographic Workshop with Tom Putt (Inspire Landscapes). This was a “lightbulb day” for me, because I learnt more about framing and composing a shot in the course of 5-6 hours than I did in the next couple of years. Of course having amazing light …