Random tangent (blog)
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Melbourne’s sky has been fantastic to see and photograph these last few days. Like today’s golden sunset.
Bright, golden sunset as seen from Docklands, Melbourne.
Also, I discovered my office building casts quite a large shadow when there’s a bright sun behind it.
Bright reflection, big shadow, puffy clouds.
It’s supposed to get sunny (sunnier?) in Melbourne today, but I have to say I’m enjoying the partly cloudy morning so far.
Dark clouds rolling out of the city during my morning commute. Spectacular.
Blue skies, bright sky, puffy white-and-grey clouds. Melbourne was showing off today.
Fluffy clouds as far as the eye can see.
On Thursdays we wear grey (hoodies). At least on this bus we do.
Three of my fellow morning commuters - sitting in almost a line ahead of me on the bus - are wearing light grey hoodies today!
Battening down the hatches.
Dark rain clouds approaching from the west — starting to block out the soon-to-be-setting sun.
Ah, Melbourne. The place where I wear a rain shell and sunglasses while walking the dog. My clothes are still wet, but my face is now warm.
If you don’t like the weather in Melbourne, just wait fifteen minutes and it’ll change.
Heading home from a comedy show in the city on Good Friday.
Waiting on a mostly empty platform at Flinders Street station.
Gorgeous Thursday evening sunset in Docklands, Melbourne. A lovely end to a short week before the Easter long weekend.
Sunset over Docklands, taken from the 29th floor of Collins Square.
Sunny Saturday afternoon at the Independent Goods Line that runs under Footscray train station.
A freight train heading towards Melbourne city on the South Kensington–West Footscray railway line, next to Footscray station.
You get great views of the clouds from the 29th floor of a building in Docklands.
A break in the clouds
You know you’re in Melbourne when you have to wear sunglasses and be under an umbrella at the same time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Selfie in sunglasses, sheltering from the rain under an umbrella.
Looks like it’s raining across Sunshine this afternoon. Or maybe that’s Deer Park? I don’t know — it’s difficult to judge distance from this far away without an obvious landmark!
Looking towards Sunshine from the 29th floor of a building in Docklands.
I got to walk through West Melbourne early this morning while on my way to volunteer at the Run for the Kids fun run. There was an issue with the trains so I had to get off one stop before I wanted to and walk the rest of the way. I didn’t mind too much because the walk was nice and I got to take this photo of the stage door at Festival Hall (formerly a stadium, now a heritage listed concert and sporting venue).
Stage door at Festival Hall in West Melbourne
Hi, Dad!
Run for the Kids is an annual community fun run in Melbourne that raises funds for the the Royal Children’s Hospital’s Good Friday Appeal.
What’s particularly cool about this event is that you get to run over the Bolte Bridge, one of Melbourne’s two iconic road bridges (the other being the West Gate Bridge). In fact, if you look closely at this photo of the Bolte, you can actually see people running across the top!
Bolte Bridge as seen from Docklands, Melbourne during Run for the Kids 2019
Transurban has been a principal sponsor of this event since 2006. And, every year, hundreds of my colleagues either volunteer their time as organisers and/or participate in the run with their families.
Given I’m a digital and social media person, my contribution for the 2019 run was to post content to Transurban’s social media channels and to moderate the tweets and Instagram posts that were going to be displayed on large digital screens around the event space. Both kept me busy and both were lots of fun.
It was particularly nice to see people post a photo using the event hashtag and then take a selfie of themselves in front of the big screen when their original post came up in the display rotation :)
Of course this meant that I got to spend most of the event in a marquee bent over my laptop.
Selfie in a marquee at Run for the Kids 2019
Not that I minded, of course. I wanted to contribute in any way that I could. Besides, I’m not a runner so it’s not like I was going to participate anyway!
All in all, I had a really fun day and the event was hugely successful too — which, of course, is the important thing.
Last night Nadia and I went to watch Judith Lucy’s latest show at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. If you’re into an honest, brutal, hilarious, mature, and insightful comedy about love, relationships, and society, then you should go watch it as well. Judith is fantastic. 10/10 would recommend.
Waiting for Judith Lucy to come and perform her fantastic ‘Judith Lucy vs Men’ show.
Why I’ve started to document the cats of Kingsville, I don’t know. But here’s today’s cat enjoying the warm sun as it checks us out from on high.
Multilayered, multidimensional sky on an increasingly windy evening in Melbourne — at the leading edge of an approaching rainstorm.
Dramatic skies at sunset in Kingsville, Victoria, Australia.
Summer is officially over in Melbourne when cafes dust off and wheel out their outdoor space heaters.
A large outdoor space heater warms people who are sitting at an outdoor table of a cafe in Docklands, Melbourne.
Partly cloudy day on the 30th floor at Docklands, Melbourne.
Looking out the full-height windows on the 30th floor at Collins Square in Docklands, Melbourne
One of my favourite things about Yarraville Village, very close to where we live in Melbourne, is that I can take this kind of photo of trains that stop here :)
City bound train at Yarraville railway station.
This is personal website of Nadia Niaz and Ameel Zia Khan. Here we document our lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia