Good Morning from Melbourne
City skylines are commonly seen from the ground, but are truly appreciated when seen from the air. Planes are good, helicopters are even better – but there is nothing quite like a balloon ride over Melbourne on a crisp autumn morning. Pictured above is the skyline of Melbourne, with the streets of Parkville, North Melbourne [...]
The perfect view
Melbourne is the #1 city in the world. Today, I have to express a huge thank you for the opportunity to savour it from a vantage point that I have always wanted to – from a hot air balloon while floating over the Melbourne suburbs. Melbourne is one of the few cities in the world [...]
Melbourne from St, Kilda
Something from a little closer home for a change – the St. Kilda marina has several attractions, and is one of the best maintained piers along Beaconsfield Parade. The pier has a breakwater at its end, which forms a shelter for fairy penguins which come in at sunset. If you choose to turn right [...]
Sunrise at Brighton
I was down at Brighton Beach this weekend, taking in a crisp autumn sunrise. Truth be told, I spent about an hour and a half watching the sun come up as I shot a series of time-lapse sequences for a project that I am working on. These iconic bathing boxes which are symbolic of Melbourne, [...]
Sunrise at the Jaws of Death
The last few days have been a bit gloomy here in Victoria. We’ve had an awful lot of rain, and I just felt that there is a good case to post something cheerful – like the perfect sunrise on a Christmas morning photographed at the Balconies at Grampians National Park in December 2010. Sometimes, life [...]
The Great Hall
Built in an era when Melbourne became somewhat of a major boomtown thanks to a gold rush, the Royal Exhibition Building is a world heritage site, and is an example of some fine architecture here in Melbourne from the late 1800s. It was built to host the Melbourne International Exhibition, and later hosted the opening [...]
Kerford Road Pier
Not too far from my hood, and literally down the road road from where I live, on Beaconsfield Parade is Kerford Road Pier; one of a series of piers that are on the edge of Port Philip Bay and are part of my favourite parts of Melbourne. I’m pretty lucky to be able to get [...]
Sunrise at Prince’s Pier
Following up to yesterday’s post on Prince’s Pier, with the containerisation boom, the pier became unused, being closed to public access in the early 1990s due to the poor timber condition, and squatters caused a fire in the late 1990s that destroyed the store structures. In the three years to 2004, 14 fires occurred. The [...]
Welcome to Prince’s Pier
I have lived in Melbourne for a little over 4 years now. When I first moved here, Prince’s Pier nothing more than a construction site. It has now taken on a new image. This 580 metre long historic pier was known as the New Railway Pier until renamed Prince’s Pier after the Prince of Wales. The [...]
Abandoned Pier
Sometimes, the simplest of compositions work the best. This is one of the many piers along Beaconsfield Parade. This one is set apart from the many others – it has been condemned and is no longer in use. (I am told that it used to be a boat ramp, but in more recent times, vehicle [...]
Mail drop
I stopped by the post office today on my way back from an appointment. Truth be told, I was trying to keep cool on a very warm day and was routing my way through the city’s air-conditioned arcades. This is what greeted me at the GPO… I think its safe to call it “Mail Drop”! [...]
Descent to the edge of the world
It is one of the my favourite locations to visit on a lazy summers’ day here in Victoria – Cape Schanck is the edge of the Australian mainland continent. Beyond this point are King Island, and Tasmania before the next major landfall… Antarctica. The weather here is consistently fickle. You will need to dress for [...]
The Crucible
In an otherwise dismal tour for the Indian cricket team, on the 27th of December 2011, I got to live my dream as an avid cricket fan – watch the Boxing Day test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground with India taking on Australia. For the record, the two batsmen in the middle are Rahul Dravid [...]
Alien Monolith
Another one from the Cape Schanck shoot… the Pulpit Rock is a interesting coastal feature, and makes for an awe-inspiring view. Cape Schanck is not the easiest of locations to shoot at. While the approach to Pebble Beach is well paved and accessible for individuals with even the weakest set of ankle and knee joints, the rocky [...]
Fluid Motion
Several weeks ago – although it may seem only a few posts back – I had featured the Altar of Hades here on my daily photograph blog. This is another shot from that very same shoot. Its a bit incredible when you think about it – a landscape photography shoot where you drive for about [...]
Flight classics
The RAAF have a museum at Point Cook, about 45 minutes out of Melbourne. This museum is a shrine to aviation, with several planes that had been pressed into service during both World Wars, and the 1950s and 60s. Definitely worth a visit, especially for those who are intrigued by aviation, and Australia’s role in shaping the [...]
The Rip
At the edge of Port Philip Bay, there is a place called Point Lonsdale. Its a place which I personally enjoy visiting along the Bellarine Peninsula – just 90 minutes out from Melbourne, where its almost a completely different world from the hustle and bustle of a city like Melbourne. At the edge of Point [...]
Wine Country
This Christmas was a fairly relaxing break. Its nice when you decide to slow down and smell the roses. I took the opportunity to travel to a region of Victoria that is literally down the road from where I live, yet one that I have never ventured down… the Yarra Valley. This is Victoria’s wine [...]
The Last Day of Christmas
Tradition states that one should take their Christmas decorations down by the 6th of January to avoid ill luck. It is with this little bit of knowledge that I set out yesterday with my camera for a brief walk around the Melbourne CBD to catch the last glimpse of any remaining decorations. This is one set [...]
Brunswick Street
This shot was taken almost 18 months ago on an weekend where I needed to get out of the house and shoot a few pictures. The weather Gods were with me – the weather was mostly overcast and there had been plenty of passing showers throughout the afternoon – the perfect recipe for cool reflections [...]
Point Lonsdale
One of the things about living in the city that you have to keep in mind is about discovering places where you can get away from it all. Point Lonsdale is a little town just outside Melbourne which I decided to drive through a few months ago after having had enough of what the city [...]
The Season Gone By
Melbourne’s outdid itself in its Christmas decorations this year. Everyday, throughout the season, commuters were repeatedly greeted by these words spelt out over the façade of Flinders Street Station. This particular intersection is at the bottom end of Elizabeth Street. It can be a bit tricky to pull off a long exposure shot on a tripod in [...]
Taggerty River Cascades
This is not one of my better shots… but its been resurrected thanks to a little Photomatix HDR and a lot of Topaz Adjust. This is a humble little cascade nestled away in the middle of some bushland just outside Marysville – a community that has risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the bush [...]
Welcome to 2012
Goodbye 2011 – welcome to 2012… ok, so this post is a day late… I did shoot it and post it on Facebook within 20 minutes of taking it, but I supposed that I could have gotten it here earlier. Being as far east in the world as we are, Melbourne does get the opportunity [...]
