How mysterious.
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Month: August 2014
Sunday Driver: self portrait with landscape
Having started the photographic journey with 35mm SLRs, then a DSLR, before switching to compacts and micro four thirds cameras, I am still astonished when I see a photo of myself holding one of these as they are so tiny! And yet, so brilliant.
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Extra Tang: another yellow office
Solo (lemon squash soda) was the first soft drink of my memory…a visitor once came to have tea at our house and brought with him a glass litre bottle of Solo to share. Seeing the sticker on this machine took me back in time.
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Fabulous Fitzroy: das t-shirt automat
Coolest “hole in the wall” ever – this old home on a busy street in Fitzroy, Melbourne, has been converted to a t-shirt printing place, also offering a music recording service (on vinyl – sweet as!) The very catchy radiant stripes lead your eye to the service window, and you can read the instructions on the information boards as you wait.
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Tahara Telephone Exchange: dislocated
Tahara is a windy hilltop locality, where this small exchange building must once have sat. Now it sits in a valley town, perhaps dreaming of its days higher up.
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Hillside Daydreams: a blueskycloudy day
An old bulldozer and cement truck, appearing to be “shooting the breeze” on a hillside on a sunny winter’s afternoon.
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Office of Many Levers
I borrowed the title for this post, as it seemed more fitting than anything I could come up with. The contrast of the yellow machine’s exterior with the view of the sky through the levers in the cockpit – the “Office”, as it were – fascinated me.
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Office of Many Levers: a wider view
To give some perspective to my previous post, here’s a shot taken from further back.
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Spooky Old Cottage: the magic of filters
Since acquiring my Olympus XZ-2 compact camera, I have used the monochrome dramatic tone art filter than may be advised. It’s remarkable how a filter can influence how one reacts to an image that in real life looked fairly unassuming. This derelict cottage, while looking quite lonely and unloved, wasn’t so spooky – though no doubt it could, in certain conditions.
I used the Snapseed app to enhance the spooky atmosphere.
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Fabulous Fitzroy: das record automat
This place was a very intriguing “hole in the wall” – quite literally, as you will see in a coming post – where you can get your music put onto vinyl, or a t-shirt created with your own artwork. That’s totes awesome!
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precious ruthless captures 