A Walk Around a Few Blocks in Melbourne CBD to See the W-Melbourne Building
Firstly from Southbank then across the Evan Walker footbridge, underneath the train lines to the end of Elizabeth Street.
Turn east along Flinders Street taking in the grand Flinders Street Station, St Paul's Cathedral, up Swanston St then west along Collins Street. The new W-Melbourne building is on the corner of Collins and Market Street and is truly different and impressive with its two towers and an elevated cross over connection.
Reflections about the King Street Bridge
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I had about 90 minutes to grab some images starting at Southbank near the Evan Walker arch footbridge.
The only camera on hand was my Nikon D7100 which had been converted to take Infrared.
Read more: A Walk around Southbank Melbourne with my Nikon D7100 Infrared Camera
Armed with my Infrared converted Nikon D7100 and 16-85mm lens I went down the wooden steps to the Beaumaris foreshore opposite Haydens Road.
It was a very low tide - I used to live in the area from the mid 1950s for twenty plus years and I cannot remember such a low tide. I walked eastwards along the sand dunes and exposed coral covered sandstone rocks. Of course one walks out to the "Triangle" on Ricketts point. There is another inverted triangle further inshore. Lining the two up in the past represented the start (or end) of a nautical mile for a vessel moving in a SE or NW direction. The other end was at Quiet Corner but the two triangles there have long disappeared. By timing the passage one could determine the speed in Knots.
Yesterday (March 31 2023) I went for a walk in the Morton National Park. My first walk of any length completed since getting Covid last December (2022).
The earlier walk into town for a coffee resulted in an "incident" where I met my neighbours, started talking, but collapsed - not in a screaming heap but a very sedate heap on the nature strip. Low pulse (37) and blood pressure etc.
On the way to Echo Point Lookout I took the infrared camera (converted Nikon D7100) - these are some images en route:
The following infrared images were taken some 12 months after the huge bush fires swept through the Monga National Park.
Fortunately there is considerable regrowth on the standing trunks and many of the tree ferns located in gullies seemed to have escaped.
A sunny day with some high cloud saw the Nikon D7100 (converted for Infrared) taken downtown for a few images.
There is the Anglican Church, as well as views of fences etc along Penrose Rd.
In the infrared images, green grass and leaves generally show up white and the clear sky is often quite dark.
The widespread bushfires in NSW have been well documented. Many areas including National Parks remain closed for a long period because of unsafe and burnt trees near roads.
In the Morton National Park, near Bundanoon, a few things were of some surprize.
Firstly, that the native grass trees seemed to be spared the worst of the fires - perhaps they were in areas of controlled back burning to save nearby towns etc.
Secondly, after the fires were put out by rather heavy rains in February 2020 one observed that the ground was very soft underfoot and hundreds of ant nests appeared.
Read more: Regrowth following the 2019-20 Bushfires - Infrared
A series of infrared images of buildings in the Sydney CBD taken in 2019.
The camera used is a Nikon D7100 and in most cases the lens was a 16-85mm zoom. Most images were taken at ISO 200, 1/200 sec, handheld, at 16mm focal length to capture the tall buildings with an aperture of f/10.0
A series of Infrared images taken in several locations including the Morton National Park, Bare Island, Exeter, Goulburn, Como, Oatley Railway Station and Oatley Park.
Being quite new to Infrared I was pleasantly surprized to see how well structures stood out - such as the new pedestrian overpass at Oatley Railway Station.
Today I ventured out to the nearby Memorial Park in Mortdale NSW armed with some new Infrared filters to try.
I had been impressed with some high contrast black and white landscape images by people using converted DSLR cameras so that IR light reaches the sensor rather than the visible light.
Before taking the plunge to have an older Nikon D7100 converted, a trial is to use some IR filters screwed onto the lens.
Unfortunately in this approach there are some challenges.