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?
