It’s supposed to get sunny (sunnier?) in Melbourne today, but I have to say I’m enjoying the partly cloudy morning so far.
Gorgeous day in Melbourne
Blue skies, bright sky, puffy white-and-grey clouds. Melbourne was showing off today.
Rainclouds a-comin'
Battening down the hatches.
Good Friday night at Flinders Street station
Heading home from a comedy show in the city on Good Friday.
Thursday evening sunset
Gorgeous Thursday evening sunset in Docklands, Melbourne. A lovely end to a short week before the Easter long weekend.
Independent goods line
Sunny Saturday afternoon at the Independent Goods Line that runs under Footscray train station.
Holey dramatic skies, Batman!
You get great views of the clouds from the 29th floor of a building in Docklands.
It's raining in Sunshine
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!
Stage door at Festival Hall
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).
Hi, Dad!
Judith Lucy is fantastic
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.
Clouds before a storm
Multilayered, multidimensional sky on an increasingly windy evening in Melbourne — at the leading edge of an approaching rainstorm.
Summer is officially over in Melbourne
Summer is officially over in Melbourne when cafes dust off and wheel out their outdoor space heaters.
Partly cloudy day on the 30th floor
Partly cloudy day on the 30th floor at Docklands, Melbourne.
Sunny, windy day in Yarraville Village
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 :)
Sunset over North Melbourne station
The sunset over North Melbourne station was particularly golden today.
Maggie in profile
I tried my Google Pixel 3XL phone’s portrait mode on Maggie. The results were excellent!
Instagram wrap-up: January 2019
Here’s what I shared on Instagram in January 2019. (ICYMI, starting this year I’ll be cross-posting everything I post to Instagram to this blog.)
Maggie
We had a super hot start to 2019. Maggie, being a very Australian dog, loves the heat.
When the weather is nice, though, we all like to hang out in the garden.
Maggie loves her rope toy.
Events
January saw the start of #SlowSummer on SBS.
Nadia and I went to the Australia Open tennis tournament, where every year we take a selfie.
Melbourne went through three-ish heat waves in January. The last series of hot days ended with rain showers across the city. I work on the 29th floor of a building in the Docklands that has great views.
Selfie
I finally got around to buying a quality Panama hat. Which, of course, meant that I had to take a selfie while wearing it :)
Quick Tour of Sydney
A couple of weeks ago I went to Sydney to attend a the ConnectNow Conference. That took place on Wednesday and Thursday so I took the Friday off to explore the city (as much as I could in one day).
The photos from that day are on my ‘Sydney April 2010’ Set on Flickr but here are some of my favourites.
Buildings at University of Sydney
The second day of the conference ended around sunset and the sunlight on that overcast day was quite delicious. This is the Law School building:
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Harbour Bridge is, of course, am imposing structure:
Even when it’s in the background:
It was fun, also, to see people doing the bridge walk on it:
Sydney Tower
I also managed to get a good perspective shot of the Sydney Tower from within the Sydney Explorer tour bus.
Sydney City
Finally, like my photo of Melbourne from Port Philip Bay, here's a photo of Sydney from its harbour:
All in all, I had a great day wandering around this gorgeous city. I would have liked more time to explore but that’s no fun without Nadia so we’ll check the city out properly when we go there for TAM! Australia 2010.
Oh, I also got to try out my new camera – the Canon IXUS 120 IS – which, as you can see from the photos I took, is quite awesome.
Quick reminder: You can see all the photos from this trip on my ‘Sydney April 2010’ Set on Flickr.
Melbourne Photo Blogs
I’ve recently started following Michael Blamey’s Today in Melbourne photo blog and it’s really quite good.
Since then I’ve gone and looked for other Melbourne photo blogs and here are the ones I found so far:
- Today in Melbourne [Michael Blamey]
- Girl in Melbourne [Jayne]
- Melbourne Street Art
- Melbourne Photoblog [Sam]
- The Grapevine [Adam Dimech]
- The Foto Kid [Edouard Mouy]
- Heiko Waechter | Fotoblog [Heiko Waechter]
- Melbourne in Photos [John Evans]
Let me know if you find any others.
Using my Flickr Account
I’ve finally found a good use for my Flickr account: I’m going to use it to post photos that I probably won’t be adding to one of my albums on Picasa.
Waiting for a train at a lonely railway station in Melbourne
A Little Background
I have a Flickr account and a Picasa account. I publish my photographs online to Picasa because my free Flickr account has an upload limit (100 MB per month) and a limit to the number of sets I can create (3). Picasa doesn’t have such limits. However the photos that I do upload to Picasa all belong to specific albums, even if that’s the broadly defined ‘Life in Melbourne’ album that I update every now and again.
What happens then to the photos that I like but either don’t belong to a specific album or are good, but not good enough to be included in any album? Well, nothing really. They just sit around on my hard drive…
Waiting at a tram stop on Lygon Street
…until now.
Flickr to the Rescue
The plan, then, is to use Flickr to publish non-album, non-event, or simply good-but-not-great photos that I have taken and would like to share. I won’t be doing this with any regularity, though, so don’t hold your breath.
Path running through Princes Park in Melbourne, connecting the Princes Hill and Parkville suburbs
Doing this should be fun, though. It might even encourage me to take more random photographs.