Gog and Magog
They appear in the book of Genesis, the Book of Ezekiel, the book of Revelation, and Qu’ran… and also in Melbourne’s Royal Arcade. Gog and Magog are typically represented as as two men, giants or supernatural beings such as demons. In the Royal Arcade, they stand on either side of Gaunt’s Clock as the lock [...]
Suga Suga!
The thing I love about High Dynamic Range photography so much is that you can make something ordinary and mundane pop out like something special that is inviting and otherwordly. Take this image for instance, also taken at Melbourne’s Royal Arcade in the CBD. It has the architecture and ambience of an era gone by, [...]
Riding past the public purse
The centrepiece (if you would like to call it that) of Melbourne’s Bourke Street mall is “The Public Purse”, a very large replica of a woman’s purse that sits in front of Melbourne’s GPO on the intersection of Bourke Street and Elizabeth Street. It is one of the busiest tram stops in Melbourne and is [...]
Build it and they will come
I do have a thing for reflective surfaces – water, mirrors, glass, polished metal, wet tarmac and sand… they all add another dimension to an image, just like how this polished floor does to this corridor that runs down one of the hallways of the many retail outlets at Chadstone Shopping Centre. The glass roof [...]
Shop, shop till you drop
Have I said that I hate shopping? I hate shopping! I think it is one of the vilest forms of wasting time and would rather be hiking than shopping. Unfortunately, it is part and parcel of our lives, and the gentleman on the left of this image wasn’t there when I was setting up my [...]
Name Brands
I am not a big fan of shopping… heck, I absolutely hate shopping! If I could help it, I would do ALL my shopping on the Internet and have everything delivered to my doorstep. But inspite of all that, I found myself heading over to Chadstone Shopping Centre this past weekend. I had first visited [...]
Fullfill your desires here
Australia has been blessed with natural resources that have resulted in a commodities boom over the last decade, and have given rise to a series of shopping centres such as this in recent times. Pictured above is the Chadstone Shopping Centre which caters to affluent young families and houses outlets for every name brand that [...]
