Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
This could have been a film sequence from ` Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat’, don’t you think? This shot was taken from the city side of Southbank, here in Melbourne. We were early for a wedding reception and I wandered down the river bank with my camera, wondering if I’d get a shot of something in the dusk. I was about to turn back when I noticed the trailing branch of this gum tree. It was only when I moved to a different spot on the bank that I noticed the real shot - the reflections on the Yarra. You can still see the low gum branch - but doesn’t the surface of the river look like pastel ribbons on a bed of mercury?
14 comments:
"Pastel ribbons on a bed of mercury", lovely description of a lovely photo. (Again.)
As usual a beautiful shot... Siddharth
Hi Carol,
Why, thank you, ma'am. The description just sort of appeared in my head.
Y'know wo' I mean?
Keep smiling
David
Hi Siddharth,
Thank you for that comment. But you know the feeling - the scene is there, just waiting to be photographed.
All we do is hit the shutter.
Take care
David
Beautiful, as always. The photos that we least expect are always those that come out really interesting, right David?
Thanks for always being an inspiration...
cheers,
Cecilia
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Sometimes I think you could go to the bathroom, or the loo, or whatever you refer to it as in Oz, and come out with a shot worthy of the annals.
Dear David,
Isn't it loverly when shots like this magically appear? It's a beauty!
I thought about having a camera surgically implanted to my hand because 9 times out ot 10 I just don't have my camera with me at the right time.
....ouch... maybe not....
Slainte~
Rachelle
Hi Cecilia,
You're absolutely right. That shot just `happened'.
Looking forward to some more of your photography now ...
I don't know about being an `inspiration' as you say. I just enjoy doing what I do!
Cheers
David
Hi Jaya,
Thanks for dropping by. I'll have a look at your site in the next 24 hours.
Cheers
David
G'day Bart,
That is without doubt the highest compliment I ever received, with regard to my photography.
It is also without doubt the funniest. Thank you, kind sir.
The Aussie word for a toilet is ``dunny''. In retrospect, that is definitely the one place I've never taken my camera!
Cheers, Bart-Man
David
Hi Rachelle,
You're right. This scene just screamed ``photograph me NOW''. Everything about it was just right.
My friends tell me I look like I have a camera surgically implanted in my palm - because it practically goes everywhere I go.
Thanks for dropping by and I look forward to reading more of your work.
Cheers
David
That can't be the Yarra. The last time I saw it, it was too thick to plant and too thin to plow.
Hi David.
Hi Catmoves,
Wonderful to hear from you again. Nice to know the Yarra has had an effect!
And just think - Jim Courier swam in it, not once but twice!
Keep smiling
David
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