I have already posted a series of articles about the 2023/2024 trip to Australia (Australia 2024: Melbs, Australia 2024: Point Lonsdale and Points Beyond and Australia 2024: Zoo & Art) and they probably give lots more context but frequent visitors will know that I am partial to film photography with classic Minolta manual SLRs. I shot a couple of rolls of Kenmare PAN1oo while I was there, so let’s have a look.
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There’s the boy in what’s probably the best shot of the roll, in Point Lonsdale.
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Let’s start things easy with some shots from Melbourne. I don’t recognize this sexy building because I haven’t been to the CBD since… last year?
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I have already ruined the order, this was the first shot off the roll, the art gallery in Melbourne.
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Here we are in Point Lonsdale with Mum, she’s looking for a nice place to have a lie down.
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“What?” “Nothing, Mum.”
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Here’s my lady in Point Lonsdale. Christmas in Australia is in summer and is supposed to be pretty hot. We got wind, rain, cold, the works.
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Even fog, at two in the afternoon. I know we are costal but ‘fog’ and ‘Australia’ do not often coincide. Even less in ‘summer’.
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The fog didn’t stop the surfers and other folk of the beach. I got even got sunburnt.
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A few days later Dad took us for lunch to a winery that has a sculpture park. Actually a pretty extensive one. It’s at Point Leo and it’s pretty posh.
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This is their newest addition, it’s a pumpkin from Japan.
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This is the best one, from a photography student’s wet-dream. B&W film, manual camera, red filter.
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Even better from this side.
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Why, yes. They do look like money-bars don’t they?
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This one’s a favourite around Melbourne and I’ve admired the artist’s work many times.
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There’s a big one of these in Melbourne city somewhere that I recall from childhood. I didn’t know they made them backyard-sized.
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Inspired art or metalwork student project? Both?
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The big head is a big crowd-pleaser. There are, like, chrome crystals coming out of it which are not bad but just a big head on the ground would be good enough. Gilding the lily? I wonder what this would look like on a roundabout, spooking the tourists and getting crashed into by drunk teenagers at 2am on Saturday?
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Mrs Sachie is going to show us, she’s even getting a runup.
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Time to head off but Dad has forgotten where we parked.
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Melbourne is known for its cool ally scene and there is some very cool stuff around if you know where to look. But I don’t know where to look.
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Here we are at the Melbourne Zoo but the orangutang is tired of looking at the kids they keep in this enclosure.
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It’s Mrs Sachie’s last day in town so off to the Vic Market to get some tourist-tat gifts for friends in Bangkok.
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Melbourne Central is built around the Shot Tower. Not all shopping centres need to be soulless shitholes. They do seem to prefer it that way, though. I have a shot like this as my phone lockscreen so I really wanted to get one on film but they’ve put these three-story tall rabbits around the place.
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State library, awesome.
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Under the State Library dome, one of the reading rooms. It’s a very cool place to visit. I hadn’t been here since I was a kid.
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We aimed for the botanic gardens but this is the Shrine of Remembrance. We didn’t go in though because Sachie is Japanese and, you know, awkward.
That’s it for the B&W film for 2023. There’s lots more but they’re all duds so I’m not going to show you.
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