Despite what it looks like, Tim wasn’t playing hide and seek with the well-dressed men wearing bow ties.
Tag: Olympus OM-D E-M5 MkII
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An Insta-meet, a bridge, a beam of sunlight, and a man. All the ingredients for an interesting shot!
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Minimalist Friday. It’s the end of the work week for me – well, that’s not actually true now that I think about it. I’ve just started teaching at UTAS again (great big YAY going on inside my head right now) – just one online unit, let’s not get too excited (although I really am) – and as anyone who has taught or studied online knows, there really aren’t any days off.
So I’ll start again … Minimalist Friday. It’s the end of the week and this is what I’m looking forward to over the weekend. Minimalism. A line here, a shadow there … that will be enough for me.
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I took this photo on the sly – which isn’t my usual style. I usually like to make sure that my subjects know I’m photographing them … so when I checked it to see what he looked like on camera, I asked if I could take his photo. He shrugged – I’m not sure if he was noncommittal or just didn’t understand me. I asked his name and he shrugged again. I like to think that he didn’t speak English rather than him wanting to ignore me.
But he has a great face, doesn’t he?
There’s another photo of him on my Instagram account.
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I often take photos of strangers. I am always careful who I approach – I often spend quite a bit of time trying to determine if they’re friendly. Not with this guy. His smile told me that I had nothing to worry about.
This is Nouhe (pron. Noah). He’s from France, and I happened to catch him as he sat on the steps of H&M in the Bourke St mall (the old Post Office) on the weekend.
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Another shot of the flower from yesterday’s blog – this time with a slightly different composition. To me, this composition shows more of the delicacy of the petals and the tenuous nature of how they’re held together. Similar shot in one way, but a very different story if you look carefully.
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A return to a flower today. I was looking through my photos this afternoon and came across a series of photos I did a month or two ago that I didn’t like at all. But on looking at them again I have changed my mind. They’re okay-ish.
Here’s one example … I was trying to represent a flower from a different perspective – to tell a different story from the usual front-on shot with the whole flower in the frame. To me this shot is an explosion of colour and line and shape. What do you see?
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Listening to buskers is easy in Melbourne – there are so many of them and the vast majority are fantastic. Just like Kit Watts. Fabulous sound and a great performer.
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Drinking English tea in a French-style cafe reading Russian literature … in Melbourne.
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I feel it’s time for a flower. This flower is actually pink, but playing around in post-processing I was able to give it a very different look.
Musings from the cold 