Mallacoota Road Trip

I just got back from a 7 night getaway to Mallacoota. It was a pretty chilled little holiday. Just some nature walks and photography and general hanging out and relaxation. It'll be the last serious break I've had this year - the busy season is well underway at work at the moment.

Anyway, here's a selection of photos from the trip:

Sunrise on the first morning

Water dragon at Genoa Falls

Orchid I

Orchid II

Sunset from Genoa Peak

Early morning low cloud

Dragon

Koala I

Sunrise light I

Sunrise light II

Sea fog

Sea fog over Mallacoota Inlet

Young fern

Sea cave at Secret Beach

Koala II

Boat ramp at Mallacoota

Shell detail

Washed up bluebottle

Silo Art Trail

I just got back from a little four day holiday to check out the Silo Art Trail.

This trip was virtually entirely based around the silo art and photography - though of course it was also an excuse to get out of the city a bit.

The Wimmera region is actually a bit of a wasteland of industrial agriculture, with very little attraction of note other than the silo art, but it was worth seeing once.

Rupanyup silo (Julia Volchkova)

Sheep Hills silo (Adnate)

Sheep Hills silo detail

Rosebery silo (Kaff-eine)

Lascelles silo (Rone)

Patchewollock silo (Fintan Magee)

Lake Tyrrell I

Lake Tyrrell II

Rusty Abandoned Shearing Shed

Brim silo by night (Guido van Helten)

5 Days of 7am

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I'm not entirely sure why. I guess I've just had a different relationship with my photography lately in particular - it's been more about quick moments of inspiration and putting things up on Instagram, rather than more dedicated photography projects.

As for life in general, things have been pretty stable with fulltime work and all, albeit a bit stale. I'm looking to change this soon - and that's sure to inspire a blog post!

One very awesome thing that has happened so far in 2018 has been a two week holiday in Tasmania in March. No photos for here though. Just shows how much my relationship with photography has been different lately. I mostly just kept an Instagram feed of that holiday, and did very little work with my real camera.

Anyway, last week a moment of inspiration hit me to point my camera out the window and take a photo of the same scene at the same time each day - 7am. So here is what 7am looked like in Melbourne over the course of 26th April to 30th April 2018! It's really been quite typical autumn weather over this period. Cool and partly cloudy for the most part, with some foggy starts.

26th April

27th April

28th April

29th April

30th April

Night Falling on 2017

It's been a while since I've posted anything here. Although the second half of 2017 had some cool content here and there, I just hadn't been very inspired to write. I guess it's mostly because I was very busy with work.

In the last couple of months of the year, I've started coming to the conclusion that maybe fulltime work isn't quite right for me after all. As much as the stability and sensible hours are nice, the lack of flexibility does my head in. In particular - taking leave is just too much of a bureaucratic and cumbersome process, which really waters down my former lifestyle of going on random little holidays every couple of months - something I really enjoyed about 2015 and 2016. It just can't be done as spontaneously and freely as I'd like any more.

So this is really my only New Years Resolution of 2018: Less work, more play, more holidays!