St Kilda
Introducing the 2024 autumn collection. The shot above was out at Melbourne’s favourite beach that isn’t really a beach – St Kilda. I’ve taken similar shots over the harbour over the last couple of years and they usually suffer from a muddy horizon. Those smoke/dust/fast food exhaust fumes emitted from Geelong usually paints an unappealing brown colour on the lower horizon leading to a bad photo. I got some good morning light, and like that the colour of the horizon complements that of the water reflections.
These shots are from a few different trips all on film. The colour shots are on an Olympus OM-1 with Portra 400. The black and white shots are on a Fuji GW690 with Ilford HP5+.
The suburbs
To Fitzroy now, and walking the same streets I took one of my favourite photographs from last year. These don’t stack up quite as well, with the shot above having slightly too much going on, and the show below having slightly too little, but it’s all good practice with composition and utilising shadows.
Untitled
Autumn
A walk in the forests around Belgrave. The National Gallery of Victoria has many landscapes by European painters who toured Australia after it became accessible by ship. One thing they often emphasise in their work is the size and quantity of trees within forests – presumably sights new or outstanding to them. Coming from New Zealand I had the same impressions of the forests around Victoria. Bush at home is lower and thicker, whereas here trees stand like giants.
Tree, up
I really like how older lenses flare when shooting into the sun. The loss of contrast in the scene adds another level of interpretation to understand what’s going on.
