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Wordless Wednesday #2 2022

Melbourne CBD from Brooklyn Landfill 19/12/2021 17:45:15

Summer 2021-2022

For the second year running the skies in Melbourne have been far more photographic and overcast than I remember in summer.

I really exploited this in the quiet period from when I started my holidays to the new year. Many construction sites are closed at this time of year. This makes it even easier to photograph these places. I have shot more than 3 rolls of 120 film and about 20 sheets of 5×4 film. The results at this point seem pleasing.

This year I didn’t borrow a digital DSLR from work so the only digital files I’m making are using my iPhone.

These are the images I’m adding to this post. I also used the quiet time to scout a few possible locations moving forward. I’m very interested in the infrastructure projects going on right now all around Melbourne. In particular I’m interested in the ones that are close to me ie the inner west.

These are going to change the fabric of these suburbs. For better or worse I don’t know. But change they will and I’m trying to capture as much as I can, while I can.

Melbourne Docklands, 2022-01-04 12:33:53

Melbourne's Infrastructure is booming — Docklands Melbourne 2022:01:04 11:52:0

Melbourne Docklands 2022:01:04 11:38:27, looking east over the former wholesale fruit market

Footscray Road and construction 2022:01:04 11:31:35

Footscray Road facing east, 2022:01:05 16:33:31

West Melbourne Facing east 2022:01:08 16:37:43

West Melbourne, near Dynon road facing east, 2022:01:08 16:28:47

West Melbourne train yards facing east, 2022:01:08 16:37:31

Raw Files & the iPhone

A raft of new features were added in the recent iOs 14.3 update.

Two stand out for me.

Firstly the new Apple Raw file format. Since about 2017 or 2018 I used a 3rd party app that captured DNG files as I went. Called ProCamera. Now Apple natively supports DNG in camera.

Tap Settings.

Tap Camera.

Scroll down to formats.

Toggle Apple ProRaw on

The second is a setting about app tracking and privacy. You need to activate this setting to enable sites like Facebook to track your movements online. It is off by default. Personally I would leave it that way. More on the Mac Rumours website
Tap settings

Tap Privacy

Scroll and tap Tracking.

Make sure the toggle is grey. No sites or apps can track your movements.

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Meanwhile on Flickr…

I’m testing my new iPhone 12, here’s a result posted on flickr.

Processed using Luminar 4.. If you use this link to purchase Luminar 4, I get some benefits.

Wordless Wednesday, the iPhone 12 Pro Edition

photograph of clouds, test shot using iPhone 12 Pro

Processed using Luminar 4.. If you use this link to purchase Luminar 4, I get some benefits.

TBT [2019-06-13]

3 empty shuttle bus seats LAX — Three empty shuttle bus seats on the way LAX, our second day of travel home to Melbourne in 2019

Throwback Thursday, this time 12 months ago we were returning from a trip to NYC, via Los Angeles. At this point we had been in transit for 24 hours.

We had already lost a day by being forced to stay overnight in Los Angeles. A delayed flight was blamed.

Surprisingly we weren’t able to choose our seats at the ticket counter. Yet the aircraft had a large number of empty seats when we finally boarded.

At least we got two aisle seats which makes getting up and down on long haul flights a tad more comfortable. By the time we hit the tarmac in Melbourne we had been in transit for 3 days!

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empty shop from the empty shop series — Camberwell 2015-05-09 10:08:21

Quotes in the time of the pandemic

The sunrises over my backyard 2020-04-21 07:34:00

“when I was younger, I wanted to make images that made people go wow. As I developed as a photographer, I realised I wanted to make images that make people go hmm.”
Teju Cole

True words those! Indeed!