For probably the 3rd (or maybe 4th) year in a row, I attended MIFGS and never tire of visiting this event. Such beautiful garden arrangements, flowers, bulbs, seeds and garden accessories galore, lots of dreaming and oohs and ahhhs. So beautiful. Sunday was the pick of the 5 days it was open in March 2015…
Category: Melbourne
Melbourne Art Trams
Melbourne is currently having an Arts Festival in the city, and eight of our trams have been painted to celebrate the event. Many of Melbourne’s trams are well decorated anyway, so I decided to spend a couple of hours and managed to see four of the eight but saw lots of others that were colourful…
Photowalk at Ricketts Point, Beaumaris
Have you heard of Meetup? A great site that is an avenue for organising tons of meetups between people with similar interests. I belong to four different photography meetup groups, two of which I am co-organiser for. On Saturday just gone the other co-organiser planned a photography meet up to take place at Ricketts Point,…
While in the city…
we ventured upon a fashion parade in the city square. It was for the Lord Mayor’s Student Welcome. Naturally we all stopped to try our hands at model photography.
A walk through Melbourne
While on the photowalk a few weeks ago we wandered along lanes, inside malls and explored the architecture, the people, the atmosphere. Here are some of the architectural views I took.
Visiting the city
Been a busy month this month and while I’ve been taking photos I haven’t always had time to go through them and process them all. Hoping to catch up on that this weekend. In the meantime, thought you might like to see a shot I took on a photowalk in Melbourne earlier in the month….
Iconic cityscape images of Melbourne
My husband and I had gone away for the weekend and, on returning home through Melbourne, it got me wondering if there was any one iconic cityscape image of Melbourne. I know there are individual images of Melbourne icons, like the Flinders Street Station, for example. But is there an iconic Melbourne cityscape image? I…
A sunny winters day
Before I begin this post, I must apologise as it seems the new feed I’d set up for this blog had been paused, and wasn’t delivering. So, you would have missed a number of posts, and in particular, the most recent one about the recent Super Moon – my first real efforts at taking photos…
Flinders Street Station
Finally, after having breakfast with my friends, they walked me back to the train station. Many will have heard of Flinders Street station, and on a sunny morning like this one, its colours certainly did it proud. Underneath is a shot inside the station while I waited the arrival of my train. Tomorrow my daughter…
More views in the city
What amazed me was the number of cyclists in the city at that time of the morning. My husband tells me he read that it’s over 7,000 that ride into the city daily. I know I saw hundreds just in the short time I was wondering around. I liked this colourful alley as I walked…
Federation Bells
Something I hadn’t known about was the Federation Bells. I could hear bells playing not far from where I was walking along the river so went in search. What I found was quite a surprise – bells upside down on poles playing by themselves. You can read about them here. They play at different times…
Birdlife on the river
What’s a river if it hasn’t got birdlife? Seagulls (one has lost a foot), Pied Cormorant and a goose that I think was lost. It was honking forlornly on the river and I watched it as it passed under the bridge. I wonder where it came from? It didn’t seem to belong there.