I indicated with my camera and he nodded his head. This is Dilbag.

I indicated with my camera and he nodded his head. This is Dilbag.

Another beautiful summer evening … and a (Melbourne) Star in the sky.

Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!
[Lyrics by Marion Sinclair, 1932]

I’m a long way from the cold and greyness of Melbourne … but this image takes me back there.

A sunny afternoon, albeit a cold one.
A trip to Port Melbourne.
A shot across three lanes of traffic.

This image speaks of mystery: the rocks close in, the sky darkens, the figure leans in, searching the light.
There is story here: what is he searching for? What is left that he could find? What questions plague him, all these years later?
He searches, then turns and simply walks away.

I generally don’t take landscape images, but when there’s a lake and it’s sunset and the water is still and the reflections are sharp, I figured … why not?

I generally don’t take landscape images, but last weekend I had a hankering to capture flowing water using a filter to slow down the shutter speed, and hence slow down the water.
Here is my first attempt.
