Downwardly Static: Day Trip to Geelong

For some time now, I've been wanting to go to Geelong and take dusk and night photos of the waterfront. So today I had a day off and decided to go on a little day trip down there.

On the way there, I stopped in at Little River. I was hoping to take some photos of the You Yangs, but it didn't really work out. It was raining heavily and I couldn't really get away from the railway station, and the hills are actually further away and not as well placed to be photographed from there as I expected.

On the bright side, the weather turned out to be quite interesting for photography: it started off stormy and rainy and dramatic on my way down to Geelong (and while I was in Little River), and then by the time I got there it stopped raining and was just cloudy and dull. But then just before sunset it cleared up and turned quite spectacular - with the late afternoon sun lighting up storm clouds from behind, and bathing the waterfront in clear, post-rain afternoon light. Not sure if many of the photos do it justice. But anyhow - they are all in chronological order, so you can see how the weather and colours changed as the afternoon went along.

The most interesting feature of the Geelong waterfront right now is a giant metallic Christmas tree installation floating on the water next to the pier. Normally I'm not into Christmas stuff like that - I tend to find it kitschy - but this one actually works quite well. Both as a nice metallic statue-like thing on the water in the day time, as well as a light show at night time.

I got home well past 11pm. I love the daylight savings and the long evenings, but they sure can make night photography difficult! Especially when there is a bit of a trip to be made to and from a location. On the plus side - I'm starting a string of night shifts tonight, so it actually pays to be going to bed very early this morning, to get in the rhythm!