It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye: November 2006

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

An early Christmas message

Spotted in Pelham St, Carlton:

Labels: christmas, graffiti

Daily Melbourne Photo - 29 November 2006

Temperance Lady vs the Plane Tree

Labels: elizabeth st, melbourne, silhouette, statue, temperance lady

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Construction pics - Convention Centre 28 November 2006

New crane on site - it's a big'un...

Labels: construction, crane, melbourne convention centre

Monday, November 27, 2006

U-Bute True Blue Gold for 'Straylya!

In celebration of two major events in Australian history today - our thumping win in the First Test, and the creation of a very silly Flickr group...

Labels: beer, cork hat, thong, vb

Learning portraiture

I'm much less comfortable photographing humans than I am with buildings, wildlife or even puddles of vomit. But I'm starting to make some progress...

Labels: portrait

Daily Melbourne Photo - 27 November 2006

Late afternoon with a low sun on Lonsdale St...

Labels: legs, lonsdale st, shadows

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 26 November 2006

Don't look at this post. This post is pretty average. The previous one is much better.

Labels: elizabeth st, melbourne, night

About as good as it gets

After watching the breeding pair of nankeen kestrels at the Lonsdale St power station for a year, the male landed on the next-door neighbours' balcony yesterday evening.

And sat there for ages. Long enough for me to shoot a bunch of photos with the 70-210, change over to the 300 f/4 and start shooting again.

And he responded when I did my heavily human-accented version of his calls, without panicking and flying off.

I don't care if I never take another photo again - this is about as good as it gets. I've stood metres away from a wild raptor in the middle of the city and exchanged communication. Beats the hell out of chasing sparrows away.

Labels: Falco cenchroides, nankeen kestrel, sigma 300mm f/4 apo tele macro

Saturday, November 25, 2006

A 24mm wander

Woke up far too early this morning and decided to walk to Vic Market from the aquarium via the Yarra and Russell St. Just to make it interesting, I decided to only take photos with the Sigma 24mm f/2.8...