let me show you around my town

Come walk with me and I’ll show you some historic and important buildings that make Melbourne beautiful.


Lets start in the waterfront district and visit The Mission to Seafarers building. This is a non-profit organisation run by the Anglican Church, which cares for welfare of all seafarers regardless of nationality and faiths. The Mission provides a safe place to rest and relax for all seafarers that spend so much time in dangerous waters. There are 230 missions worldwide and 4 of these are located in the State of Victoria – Australia.

Next we head east and closer to the heart of the city to the Intercontinental Hotel in the Rialto building. This hotel is one of Melbourne’s best and has been a landmark since 1891. It’s Gothic facade is heritage listed and the newer glass Rialto tower manages to not look out of place next the beautiful old building. The Rialto tower opened Melbourne’s first public observation deck in 1994. The Tower finished completion in 1986 and at the time was the 23rd tallest building in the world and the 2nd tallest out side of the United States. The Rialto tower opened Melbourne’s first public observation deck in 1994. now this building is the 2nd tallest in Melbourne after the Eureka Tower which opened in 2006.

Lets hop on a tram now and head to work, if only my work building could be this cool, just think what this sort of space could do for team moral, bbq’s and drinks after work. No such luck at my work, were we do have a bbq but our site exists in the dirtiest and smelliest part of town, and to top it off my work is a dry site so no drinkies allowed. But this work building, even if I couldn’t have a vodka and lemonade sitting on the rooftop I wouldn’t complain. Sitting out in the sunshine, eating lunch and reading a book is much more appealing that eating at my desk. The whole roof top garden is self sustainable.

The last place I have to show you is a favourite of my daughters. Come in and look around the State Library. The building is home to more than 2 million books and thousands of pictures, newspapers, audio, visual and digital material. The building continually hosts many interesting exhibitions and the highlight of the visit is its heritage listed architecture and dome in the Latrobe reading room.

Teeming with ideas but little time

I’ve been away from blog land for what seems like an eternity. It’s hard to image that my life has been that busy and when I look back it feels like I have nothing to show, except for a few photos, of course.

That’s they way it goes, sometime life gets in the way of blogging. Sometime there’s work we must complete, and then sometime we must follow where our creativeness leads us, and take hold of our ideas in the moment or they be lost forever. I come to realise that I will never have enough time in the day to do what I want and need to do. So, it’s necessary to work out what is important and prioritise accordingly. Not forgetting I must squeeze in some important family rime.

I have many ideas in my head right now. Thinking about how to convert them into realities is consuming me in a good way. I feel excited, and on track to improve the aspects of my photography I set out to do when I gave up my 365 day photo project, which were posing, light and emotion.

These images were taken back in early July we went to Geelong for a daily outing and to visit family. The kids always love a visit to the foreshore.

And after being away for so long I have a back catalogue of photos for you.