Daily Melbourne Photo - 31 December 2006

It's New Year's Eve - soon everything will be looking like this...

More Docklands evening stuff

Daily Melbourne Photo - 30 December 2006

Sick boike mate...

Docklands: The Weird and the Beautiful

The results of a wander around Docklands a couple of nights ago, and a bit of fiddling in post...

Boxing Day Test - photos from day #2

Some shots of the action from day 2 of the Boxing Day Ashes Test. Click the images to see larger versions.

The English team practising for their big Village People number...



Freddie decided to go solo with a dance of his own...



The MCG looking pretty full apart from the top deck of the Members'...



Things were looking pretty grim when Hussey was bowled...



But then Hayden and Symonds put on a lazy 150 each...



Monty was getting cheered by Aussies and Poms alike, but wasn't having a lot of luck...



Symonds' 150 deserves a couple of photos...





The Barmy Army provided some off-field entertainment. Here they are putting on a combined strip show and save-the-whales protest...



And here they provide a warm welcome for a Warney impersonator...



4-0 so far - roll on Sydney!

Daily Melbourne Photo - 28 December 2006

Still on the Christmassy theme...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 26 December 2006

After a while, the shoppers and mannequins all start to look the same on Boxing Day...

Eureka Tower - 24 December 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 25 December 2006

Wishing everybody a Merry Christmas...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 20 December 2006

The Bolte Bridge evoking some painful memories...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 19 December 2006

Long shadows on Lt Lonsdale

Digging up the archives...

Photo by my Nanna, circa 1980. That's me in the nerdy parka and flares:



And this is the first photo I ever took. Shot this as a kid, on 126 film with a Kodak Instamatic 100 sometime in the mid-80s. Used to think it was pretty boring (mainly because it is!), but there's something cool about my first photo being a landscape...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 17 December 2006

Melbourne's alleys are full of satanists and smokers...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 14 December 2006

Morning sun through thick bushfire haze, yesterday...



And a bonus close-up of the solar disc, with sunspot:

Construction pics - neo200 12 December 2006

Daily Melbourne Photo - 12 December 2006

Unintentional shrine construction in Balcome Place...

Lonsdale St power station - 10 December 2006

About an hour before dawn, with the sky coloured strangely from bushfire smoke...

Daily Melbourne Photo - 11 December 2006

Sack of bulbs @ Latrobe Place

A Hazy Shade of Bushfire

The weather was a bit unpleasant in Melbourne yesterday - 37-degree heat combined with a thick smoke haze from bushfires raging across Victoria.

Here a a few images showing how the city looked around mid-afternoon...