Melbourne Candid Series #1425 Collins St

 

Along the street where footsteps flow,
The years move on in quiet tide;
Each bears a burden none may know,
Yet keeps a little strength and pride.

The city's heart beats swift and loud,
Its countless lives like leaves are blown;
Still every face within the crowd
Walks to a story of its own.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1424 Collins St

 

Across the square the many stray,
Each bound upon a different way;
Yet Time, impartial, softly weaves
One common tale through all who leaves.

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Candid 1304 and FACE OFF

Melbourne Candid Series #1357 Collins St

 

Beneath the plane trees, summer strode by,
One with a glare, one with a sigh.
A taxi idled, the tram bells rang,
And somewhere a cyclist forgot his chain.

The city kept posing in monochrome grace,
While pedestrians marched at their own cool pace.
Melbourne, perhaps, at its most sincere 
Too busy to care, too stylish to disappear.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1352 Bourke St

 

He marched through Bourke Street cool and grim,
As if the whole tram line worked for him.
Earbuds in, moustache precise,
Serving “don’t talk to me” dressed up nice.

Skechers glowing overhead bright,
Tourists drifting left and right,
Yet none could match that sideways stare 
Half runway pose, half “meet me there.”

Melbourne’s catwalk, noon parade:
Street photography, lightly caffeinated.

Sony A7RV

FE 16mm f1.8 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1351 Collins St

 

Beneath the signs and city glare,
They shuffle past without a care.
A stroller squeaks, a toddler strays,
While shoppers drift in weekday haze.

“The Beehive” hums above the crowd,
Silent, blinking, strangely proud.
And every face in black and white
Looks halfway home by fading light.

A street parade of thongs and sighs 
Melbourne life in candid disguise.

Sony A7RV

FE 16mm f1.8 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1348 Collins St

 

Two souls marched through the city glare,
One wore patience, one wore mirrored air.
He carried snacks like sacred loot,
She carried silence sharp as truth.

Denim, sunglasses, midday heat
Love survives on tired feet.
And somewhere between the parking sign
They’d already argued where to dine.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1346 Collins St

 

The father snacks mid-city stride,
Crunching chips with guilty pride.
The mother steers through crowded lanes,
Conducting footpath traffic jams.

But there below, in stroller throne,
A tiny king sits all alone
Sipping water, calm and wise,
Judging all with toddler eyes.

Around him Melbourne roars and rolls,
Deadlines, shoppers, coffee goals;
Yet he, with bottle held just right,
Looks like he owns the street outright.

Sony A7RV

FE 16mm f1.8 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1345 Collins St

 

Beneath the pharmacy’s fluorescent grace,
A young man drifts through retail space.
Hair like a prophecy, eyes half asleep,
Scrolling through secrets his phone must keep.

The city rushes with errands and plans,
Coffee in paper cups, shopping bags in hands
Yet he walks slowly, almost theatrical,
Like a guitarist late for something mythical.

Behind him the crowd obeys the day;
He alone seems edited from the play.
A black-and-white saint of the CBD stream,
Carrying cargo pants and a private dream.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1342 Collins St

 

Two fathers marched through polished glass,
A toddler rode her wheeled first-class.
The city strutted, sharp and fast,
All chrome reflections built to last.

Beside the shopfront’s mirrored gleam,
A man slept underneath the dream.
One child reclined in cushioned shade,
One life lay folded, frayed and frayed.

Melbourne hurried, black and white
Progress pushing through the light.
And somewhere in that passing stream,
Humanity paused… then missed the scene.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1339 Collins St

 

Under the sign of the Beehive’s hum,
the city conducts its daily drum
heels click, wheels roll, a pram in tow,
everyone somewhere they must go.

A man strides past with purpose stern,
as if the world might pause his turn;
while children drift in looser schemes,
unbothered architects of dreams.

Between the shops and tiled parade,
a thousand tiny choices made
to look, to rush, to linger, hive
this is how a street stays alive.

Sony A7RV

FE 16mm f1.8 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1336 Collins St

 

A queue leans into lunchtime light,
Phones glow brighter than the sky.
One laughs mid-step, half in a story,
Half in the city rushing by.

A hug pauses traffic more than lights,
A glance negotiates the street
And somewhere between a text and a step,
The ordinary feels complete.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1335 Collins St

 

Under Royal Arcade’s polite old shade,
shoppers scroll while fortunes fade
one man naps with all he owns,
while others swipe through brighter phones.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1334 Collins St

 

He crosses streets like he owns the beat,
earbuds in, dodging tramline heat
the city waits, the lights say “stop,”
but his playlist clearly says, “don’t.”

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1328 Collins St

 

On Collins Street he strides, mid-thought, mid-day,
glasses parked like a question that wandered astray.
Bag in one hand, purpose in doubt,
as the city flows briskly around and about.

A look that says, “Was it left… or right?”
or perhaps just wrestling lunch or life.
Meanwhile the footpath keeps perfect time
Melbourne’s quiet, unbothered rhyme.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1313 Collins St

 

A collage of days, delightfully misaligned
silk and scooters, blossoms intertwined;
a beard mid-thought, a sari in grace,
time doing cartwheels across the same space.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1303 Collins st arcade

 

A chessboard floor, but no one plays fair
pawns in prams roll through patterned air.
Polka dots march with a startled stare,
while fairy lights gossip from everywhere.

A child rides high on a father’s crown,
a queen in black glides the stroller down,
and time, in monochrome, slows the town
mid-step, mid-thought, mid up-and-down.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1295 Collins St

 

Headphones on, the city mute,
He strides to some internal flute.
Scooters glare and engines preen
He’s marching through a private scene.

“Vapes!” cries signage overhead,
“Parking!” argues white and red
But none of it can quite compete
With whatever’s got that beat.

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FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1290 Collins St

 

Sidewalk symphony in monochrome tone,
City hums in a grayscale drone.
Bucket hat declares, “I’ve things to say!”
Sunglasses reply, “Not today.”

Backpacks drift like urban shells,
Shopfront glass their secrets tells.
Between each stride and passing glance,
The pavement hosts its daily dance.

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FE 16mm f1.8 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1289 Collins St

 

Dickens hangs above Collins Street air,
Promising ale and serialised despair.
Empire flaps gently over modern shoes,
History waving with after-work blues.

Step inside—where characters gather at five,
Half in the novel, half just trying to survive.

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FE 16mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1287 Collins St

 

One man chats like time is free,
One man laughs at destiny,
One strides past in mid-life doubt,
Phone in hand to sort things out.

The city hums, the feet all roam 
Everyone rushing somewhere called home.

Sony A7RV

FE 16mm f1.8 GM

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