Located at the Paris end of Collins St, 101 was designed by Denton Corker Marshall and opened in 1991. It is still considered one of the premier buildings in Melbourne.
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First triptych from final folio for 2012 exploring large interior spaces. These images were shot on a non-sitting day between group tours in order to have the place devoid of people. The La Trobe Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria - with clouds and a bit of Latin overlay, and St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne (Holga old style).
I photographed this new property for a building designer. Great people, lovely residence, lots of windows so tonnes of natural light. Shame about the clouds - they couldn’t decide if they were coming or going. Lecturers tell us photography is 10% technical, 10% creative and 80% furniture moving and they’re not wrong. It seems to take ages to set things up and it feels unnatural moving personal belongings around in someone’s home. I wonder if I’ll get used to it? First Angle Building Designers: https://firstangle.squarespace.com It bucketed with rain.
Let me repeat that ... it BUCKETED with rain!! Okay, I know it’s April and it’s autumn and there might be rain because it’s that kind of season, but seriously - this was a stupid amount of rain! ANZAC Day is just around the corner. This year we have to photograph an assignment on the day - we can choose dawn services, ANZAC parades, breakfasts, lunches.... even the football (which I personally don’t see as having ANYTHING to do with ANZACs and is just an excuse to get more people to go to the football, but I digress...) so I’m planning to go to the dawn service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, and the main parade in the city. Lots of documentary work; must remember to get names of people; must wear warm clothes, must not sleep in!
Every autumn, the CERES Community Environment Park in East Brunswick has a Harvest Festival which involves lots of fresh fruit and vegies, demonstrations of all things green, musicians and storytellers, roaming chooks, face painting (not just for kids!), a cake competition, people riding tall bikes, compost making activities (mostly for kids) and the odd pig.
Some low light stuff to kick off the uni year. Webb Bridge at Docklands is a beautiful piece of work. I’ve seen some fantastic shots of it from all different angles. It’s a popular place so it vibrates when enough people are running on it.
Before uni started again and before my French buddy Eva left to go travelling her way back to Europe and beyond, we went to the Dandenong Ranges for the day. With the same intention as our trip to the 12 Apostles last November, we just rambled and photographed whatever we wanted to, just for the hell of it.
And we fed cockies! Went on a girlie road trip with my bestie, Balders, who is truly fabulous and not just because she once got rid of a huntsman spider in my house while I hid in the local supermarket. She's also good at killing moths. My contribution to the friendship is that I will kick a wasp in the face if absolutely necessary. We filled the car with petrol, snacks and good tunes and headed up to Eden on the Sapphire Coast (NSW) via Lakes Entrance, Lake Tyers Beach (just for a look), Nowa Nowa, Orbost, Cann River and Genoa. I know it looks a bit weird but I love it. Great shapes and colours. And it's very green on the inside too - it's carbon negative. That's even better than the very on-trend carbon neutral! It's actually designed to create more energy than it uses.
I've been spending a good bit of time photographing buildings, both at dawn and dusk as well as during the day. So I figured I was just a bit tired when I thought I saw a bike up a wall.
I know parking's become a problem in the CBD but this is a bit ridiculous isn't it?!? Melbourne has some of the best street art! The place is filled with lanes and alleys that have full scale art works plastered all over them and they often last only a short time before someone paints something new in their place. Good places to visit include AC/DC Lane, Corporation Lane, Hosier Lane and Croft Alley.
And some weird-arse buildings... I went for a drive to Bendigo and found this place. It was really eerie. Dead still, quiet, ominous white cloud. Nothing cheery about it. Just a huge rusting bucket dredge and an old drag line, both used on the goldfields, abandoned several decades ago.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can consider themselves so entitled that they can just leave their junk lying around to rust without any consideration for the environment left behind. I've got an end of semester folio due at uni and it's a bit of a big deal so I'm feeling a tad stressed. A bit of tree hugging hippie-dom will put things to rights.
A couple of months ago I chucked in my corporate job, cleared my wardrobe of suits and heels, bought some new Cons and the obligatory Crumpler bag, and returned to school full time to study photography. Yes, I'm the oldest person in my class, but my groovy sneakers and funky messenger bag give me an air of youth so I look like I'm down with the kiddies even if I haven't got a scooby why every sentence contains 17 instances of the word 'like'. Like, as if I'd know. I'm too, like, busy looking after my pet dinosaur. So here's an exercise in spatial illusion. D….for dinosaur.
Today I wandered through the Queen Victoria Gardens opposite the National Gallery of Victoria on St Kilda Road, and made this picture. All in camera, no software trickery. It's the Pathfinder bronze statue by John Robinson which depicts an Olympic hammer thrower.....but he often has no hammer because people keep stealing it. People can be such tools!
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