Downwardly Static: Rare Views of Melbourne City

I had last Sunday off, so I went for a couple of massive photo walks.

My mission was to try to get some shots of the Melbourne CBD from unusual angles. "Unusual" in the sense of not being the easy-to-find vantage points in Southbank, or from the immediate south end in general.

For those who don't know Melbourne: The city has a lot of open space, riverside promenades and parkland just to the south of the main central business district, so it's the most common vantage point for getting stereotypical touristy snapshots of the main city skyline. Other views that take in the skyline nicely tend to be more distant, and good lookouts are harder to find.

These shots are collected from several days of photo walks, but the bulk of them are from Sunday 13th July.

North (Saturday 12th July): To get a nice elevated view from the north, I headed up to Carlton and went to the top of the Women's Hospital car park (corner of Grattan and Cardigan streets). Unfortunately, it doesn't have sweeping views southwards, only to the east and west, but I was able to get a few partial shots of the CBD sideways, as well as some nice views of Carlton itself.

West (Sunday 13th July): Footscray train station is the only elevated spot I could find to get a shot directly from the west. It's the most disappointing one of all. Quite a distant view and not a great angle.

South West (Sunday 13th July): Williamstown. I finally revisited this place after over a year. It was fun remembering what I did there with my old point and click camera a year ago! With the zoom capabilities of my new one, the city views (with yachts in the foreground) came out much clearer.

South East (Thursday 3rd July): St Kilda Pier. Not exactly a rare or exotic location for views of the city. In fact, it's quite a common one with postcards, but still some way out, and a bit of a distant angle.

West Closeup (Sunday 13th July): Finally, on Sunday night I walked along from Docklands to the far western end of Southbank, and got some shots from the South Wharf area. Some of these really revealed how much light pollution there is in Melbourne - the low clouds were lit up like a Christmas tree.