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I picked up a camera and I think some of my photos are cool, so enjoy

A darkly contrasting photo of an evening sky. Rich red-orange sits at the horizon, softening briefly through a dusky blue, into a deep and rich indigo towards the top and corners. A sole eucalyptus tree in silhouette takes up the left half of the frame, blending into the hills silhouetted in the background.
A photo of a piece of art by apothecaryartist framed in a light oak frame. Two whales are drawn in dotted ink, sitting in a circle of gold leaf. Some monstera leaves partially obscure the frame.
A scruffy black and white border collie trots though the centre of the frame, headed towards the photographer. The image is moody, with mist obscuring most details beyond the dew-darkened grass.
A photo of a small herd of black cows running away from the camera in the cool light of a misty morning. They are clearly playing, kicking their hind legs out and flicking their tails. The grass is dark but capped with a light frost; the trees to the right form dark silhouettes against the fog.
A photo taken of two black cows on a misty winter morning. The shot is framed by a tree; leaves on top, trunk to the left, and shadow deepening the foreground. Not much is visible beyond the cows, who stand out starkly against the thick mist.
A nighttime photo, looking through two large windows into the warmly lit interior. People sit around tables, and food and drink stalls circle the room. LEDs above the window say “VERITY LN MARKET”
The sky at sunset, changing from deep indigo in the top left to delicate pink at the bottom right. Wispy clouds catch the remaining light from the sun, draping a warm pinky-orange through the sky. The horizon line is a silhouette of a hill dotted with trees.
A photo of a pink-and-blue sunset. The sky is a dreamy gradient of dusky blue to soft pink by the horizon, with long wispy clouds streaming through in pink touched with orange. The horizon line is a silhouette of a hill spotted by trees.
A dramatic late sunset of rich oranges and gold, caught on clouds streaming across the sky. A hill dotted with trees is silhouetted against the light, and the deep indigos of the sky itself frame the light.
A brick wall is painted in graffiti, including an ape with a baseball cap. Half the wall is in shade, the other lit by bright sunlight. In the foreground, there is a cream Vespa
A photo down a semi-open alleyway. The walls are pale corrugated iron, and the alley has small bits of roofing which frame it while keeping the space open. The alley itself is filled with textures; pebbled concrete to wooden benches, to plants scaling the sides of the wall, turning orange in the autumn season.
A photo taken at a crossroad in Melbourne, looking diagonally over to a two-story McDonald’s. The first floor is black, and the second cream. It is bordered by trees changing to gold on both sides, and in the foreground, a worker is rushing across the intersection with a slight motion blur.
A photo taken looking down a short alley with a dead end. The walls to the left are covered in a bright blue mural; the right are dingy industrial bricks. The day is wet and overcast. At the end there is a colourfully painted food van, matching the blue mural. In front, there is a man in black, crouching down to look at his phone.
A photo of a white building lit with a red shopfront, taken from within a shop across the street. This is a busy part of the city, so there is a women walking through the frame, and the end of a dark car is visible. The scene is framed on three sides by silhouettes of a window frame and table, with some blurry shapes still visible.
A photo taken from across the rail line at a red-brick train station. Two steel rails are visible in front of the short red wall to the platform. Beyond that, on a sheltered ramp also made of red brick, are the silhouettes of two groups of people walking. When people zoom in, they might see long streaks of rain
A happy, old black and white border collie in the afternoon sun. The dog is excitedly looking at the photographer, with warm brown eyes and mouth open in anticipation. Peep some teefies.
A morning shot of a metal gate dividing two frosty paddocks. There are partially shaded hills in the background, contrasting with the morning sun glittering on the ice crystals dusted across the yellowed grass. The foreground is shaded by a tree (which is partially visible on the left of the frame). There is a magpie sitting on the gate, and a kangaroo hidden in the distant paddock.
A photo taken on an overcast day from a platform at Flinders St Station, looking down the railway lines as a blue train pulls into the station. Behind are some skyscrapers and the iconic Flinders St Station clock.
A close up portrait of a young grevillea plant. It’s focussed on a single furled flower, in a red with hints of magenta. The foreground and background are red buds and green leaves, just out of focus.
A wide photo of a hill with three peaks in the distance. The sky is covered in long, misty clouds, which mimic the remnants of fog visible across the left and far right of the hill. Through the middle, a slash of morning light turns the trees gold.
A silhouette of a eucalyptus tree against the sky. The sky is a deep moody blue, covered in formless clouds lit by the hidden sun.
A photo of a brilliantly red seed pod, round and spiky. It is sitting in a pool of sunlight, surrounded by deep shadows. In the distance, some bushes reddened by autumn are visible.
A photo from afar of a motorcyclist buckling their helmet. The helmet is covered in a fuzzy bunny head cover, complete with long upright ears, which is catching the sunlight from behind. He is framed by two vehicles and a ceiling of yellow autumn leaves, all bathed in warm light.
A long exposure photo taken at night. The foreground is the concrete block the camera is sitting on; the highlight is a streak of orange moving horizontally through the centre of the frame, as the headlights of a car. The sky is dark, except where (over)lit by streetlights
A photo taken at night looking down an alley between two-storey buildings. The feature is the rainbow panels and lights affixed to the building on the left, starting from purple in the top left, working through blue, green and yellow to the brightly lit orange and red near the centre of the image. The lights are also reflecting onto the paved ground.
A nighttime photo looking down an alley. The buildings are tall for Melbourne, stretching beyond the edge of the frame. Mid way down the alley is lighting on both sides, illuminating a quiet, semi-industrial brick building and rows of metal guide posts. Through the far end of the alley, the bright lights of a bigger street are visible.
A night time photo of a semi open space at the front of a building. The contrast is high and the shadows are deep, but it is lit throughout by small rectangular lights dripping in a warm orange from invisible wires. Two broader lines of light are visible, one illuminating the path into the building, and the other a horizontal swatch above it.
A close up - but not macro - shot of a bottlebrush. Most of the photo is textural leaves in light, bright green, interspersed with the odd bit of red. Near the centre of the photo is full red flower, with a bee curled around the end of the bottlebrush flower.
A photo on a shopping street of two buildings with an alley between them. In the foreground is a bookshop, deep in shadow. Sun shines through the break of the alley, illuminating the second building further away. The colours are pastel but warm, with leaves covering the left hand side of the frame.
A photo across the road from a classic green and gold tram in Naarm/Melbourne. The tram appears to be a prior generation; the vibe is enhanced by the colours in the photo with gold tinting the road and pastel blue sky half covered with fluffy white clouds.
Two black cows standing in a paddock, looking at the photographer. The sun is setting behind them, outlining their coats in gold, and creating a light blue lens flare (which the photographer kind of likes)
A black brick wall painted with a mural of golden flowers, rich amber honeycomb and some bees
A photo of a set of adjoining townhouses, taken on the corner. They are white, though it’s hard to tell as the front is half covered with green vines, before moving to autumnal red on the far side. The side of the building is in deep shadow, and there is also a power pole directly between the camera and the corner of the building.
A photo taken looking down a straight city road. Tramlines in the light-toned asphalt lead the eye towards the centre of the image, which is brightened by cloud meeting a pale distant church. The sky is a rich blue lighting as it meets the horizon, and buildings frame the road into the distance.
A photo looking across a road at a two story building on the corner of a block . The bottom story is brick, the upper light yellow. The windows, second floor and roofline are all clearly articulated by heavy but simple rectangular protrusions. To the left, a tree is visible instead of another city block; to the right, the two-story block continues on. Two men in white t shirts are walking towards the tree.
A simple photo of the edge of a two-story white building - with interesting mouldings at the roofline, but otherwise largely simple - and the power pole next to it. Also visible is the multiple lanes of road in front of the building, a red traffic light, buildings stretching along the road in the background, and the powerlines which create diagonal interest across the sky.
Looking down a dark undercover car park to the rectangular exit into the bright day. The interior of the car park and the far wall visible in the daylight are all coloured by layers of graffiti, adding colour and variety to the photography. A few cars are visible, largely in shadow. One in the front is reflecting the blue daylight from the entrance at the photographer’s end.
A photo looking down a urban street. There is a wall on the left, covered by a colourful mural. The top is bordered by a tin roof, sloping to the right. The shadows in the roof are a near match for the dark pavement. To the right, looking out between slim poles the road is visible, with a sliver of sunlight across it.
A photo looking up at a skyscraper from the corner angle. The building is in two levels, with a smaller, glass-and-steel box in the foreground, with autumnal trees visible on the rooftop, before reaching to the sky as a glass covered skyscraper which mirrors the bright blue sky and reflects the morning sun. In the top of the frame are some yellow leaves from a tree on the sidewalk.
A photo of metro Melbourne in the morning: a road leading from the bottom left out to the right, and a green-and-white Melbourne tram moving across the unseen intersection. Behind it, a skyscraper is lit by the sun, brightening the image. The top of the frame is bordered by early autumn leaves, just starting to turn yellow.
A colour photograph of part of a tall and narrow red brick building, taking up the entire left of the frame. On the right is a geometric set of metal frames, holding up glass windows. The sky through the glass is bright and clear, exacerbating the darkness of the red brick in shadow.
A photo from the interior of a building looking up to the conical glass ceiling. The glass is suspended by heavy metal frames, spiralling out from the peak like a spider’s web. Reaching towards the roof is a tall and narrow structure made of red brick, which is some of the only colour in the photo.
A eucalyptus tree looms in high contrast silhouette in the right mid ground, casting dappled shadows across the tussoky grass in the foreground. Behind it, smaller trees stretch towards the left of the photo, but in front of them is grass lit by the morning sun.
A photo looking out a window; there is a garden bed visible with a couple of Australian native plants visible, largely in dull gold and green tones. Beyond that is a gum tree, silhouetted against the overcast yet bright sky.
A photo across a major road in Melbourne/Naarm, featuring four buildings. Three of those have historic facades, one in red brick (while the others are pale). The fourth building, a street over, is large, square and pale with a slogan on it. In the foreground is a tram stop.
Street art over and into a doorway photographed at night. The background is textured pale peach/pink, with large pink and red flowers painted. A purple hand is visible above the doorway, and a blue chain moves from the left-hand wall onto the floor inside the doorway, before working its way up the interior wall. A signature - Jeswri - is visible in the top right.
A photo of street art taken at night; a purple hand is holding a blue chain against a textured background of pale peach. On the bottom left, some pink and red flowers have been added. Leaning against this wall are a red and blue bicycle.
Looking down a city alley at nighttime; the alley is dark in the foreground, but well-list outside a restaurant mid way down. The lights are reflecting on the ground as well.
A slightly long exposure photo of the ground floor of a building at night. The building has many geometric elements - triangles interspersed with rectangular shapes - and many of them are illuminated. The windows are floor to ceiling - likely two floors - and show a warm orange interior in contrast to the cool lights outside. In the foreground, a slightly motion blurred pedestrian walks across a zebra crossing.
Flinders St Station - a large, traditional brick station - is captured at night, including the full clock tower. It is lit by several warm lights along its length, exaggerating the orange tone of the bricks and the golden tone of the trims. In the foreground, a classic Melbourne tram (green) is travelling through, its view unobstructed by the orange roadwork barricades.
A photo of a well-lit city alleyway at night. It is lined by restaurants and shops, and taken with a slow shutter speed, so anyone walking through appears to blur into ghostly nothingness. There are also a few people visible, who were largely stationary for several seconds.
A photo taken looking down a moderately busy nighttime street in Melbourne, lit overhead by red paper lanterns. The road is largely clear, with some cars visible in the difference, and pedestrians all walk on the footpaths outside restaurants.
A photo of a moodily lit alleyway at night; the end of the alley is brightly lit. Closer to the camera, red lights decorate a building wall and a restaurant window. In the background, the lights of a skyscraper loom.
View down an alley at night, lit by a zig zag of light blue lights strung up from the tops of the two-story buildings. At the end of the alley, a car’s headlights are lit, and beyond that, a skyscraper looms in the distance.
The image centres on a patch of verdant greenery lit by the sun in part of an outdoor corridor. It is framed by light grey corrugated iron across the top of the image, walls on either side, and shaded ground underneath. Plants run the full length of the corridor, including two trees partially visible at the left and right edges of the foreground.
A spider’s web is hanging between several tall bits of grass. The weather is misty, making the grass rich and saturated with gold and green, and leaving water droplets to clearly outline the web. In the centre of the web is a black and gold striped spider; in the background is the fluffy tail of a black and white border collie.
Some low and wide apartments are glowing gold in the reflection of the sunset, with the evening sky visible behind. The foreground is framed by two diagonal bits of concrete, moving from the left down to the right. The texture is a little gritty to fit the mood.
The image is dominated by soft mist. In the foreground, gold and green grass is visible, darker and more saturated than usual due to the moisture. To the left in the mid ground is the misty silhouette of a eucalyptus tree. Three powerlines run from the top of the photo straight down to the centre, where they fade into the mist.
The sky is clear and blue. There is a Qantas plane (white, with a red tail and red ring tips) passing through the frame, about a third of the way across and halfway down the shot. Above it, a single power line cuts diagonally across the top left corner. There is some grain added to the image for visual texture.