Melbourne Candid Series #1079 Flinders Station

 

Three men strode down Flinders Street,
Their steps in time, their silence neat.
The city hummed, the trams rolled by,
As clouds hung low in Melbourne’s sky.

The middle bore a light-strewn beard,
A gentler face, composed, revered.
Each side, his mates were cleanly bare—
No bristle marked their chins with care.

A curious sight in modern age,
Where stubble speaks of style and stage.
Yet here they walked, a quiet band,
As if from some more tailored land.

No phones in hand, no hurried pace,
Just shadows shifting into place.
And Flinders watched, with windows wide,
As three men crossed from time to tide.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1078 Flinders Station

 

Flinders Station, shades of grey,
Whispers stories worn away.
Stone and shadow, time stands tall,
Echoes move where footfalls fall.

A young man crosses, sleek and fast,
In monochrome, his moment passed.
Jacket crisp, his gaze ahead,
In silent film, where words are shed.

Past and present, black and white,
Merge and blur in morning light.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1077 Flinders Station

 

Two men alike, with mirrored face,
In Flinders’ shadow, find their place.
One upright stands, phone in hand,
The other sits, as if he planned
To mirror thought in silent air,
Twin figures lost in digital stare.

The station looms with urban grace,
Time etched deep in every face.
But to the left—a ghost in frame,
An Italian man, unknown by name.
In black and white, he walks alone,
A traveler through this monochrome.

Three souls, one frame, and time stands still,
Each chasing moments, each their will.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1075 Flinders Station

 

She stands—mid-fifties, style intact,
With sunnies dark and calm exact;
Her gaze turned right, as if to see
A truth beyond what ought to be.

A striped bag hangs with casual grace,
A story woven into place;
She waits, yet walks in stillness deep,
Where city noise forgets to creep.

Behind her, quiet in the sun,
Two figures rest, their waiting done—
One standing firm, one seated low,
As tides of strangers come and go.

The station looms, both grand and grey,
While people pass and drift away.

Sony A7RV

FE 14mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1074 Flinders St

 

He strides in suit with purpose bold,
A voice like brass in morning cold;
His words fly fast, a streaming train,
Across the street, through wind and rain.

In Flinders' shadow, trams glide past,
The crossing blinks, the moment lasts;
An Aussie leans, with coffee slow,
Unbothered by the urgent show.

A tradesman laughs, a banker sips,
As sunlight curls on city lips;
The rush of one, the calm of rest—
Each walking in the way they’re dressed.

So Melbourne hums, both loud and still,
A patchwork bound by common will.

Sony A7RV

FE 20-70mm f4 G

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Melbourne Candid Series #1068 Flinders Station

 

At Flinders Gate where echoes dwell,
And city winds in chorus swell,
Two men of thinning, silvered hair
Conversed, unheeding worldly care.

The crowd swept past in hurried stream,
Like fragments drifting through a dream,
Yet still they stood in solemn thread,
Their words like murmurs to the dead.

Above, the clocks in noble row
Did mark the hours in patient glow;
Their faces lit by morning's lance,
Like watchful eyes in timeless trance.

The sun, half-caught in rising gleam,
Cast angled light—a painter’s beam—
That touched the stone with burnished grace,
And crowned the old gate’s steadfast face.

So moved the day, so moved the street,
With strangers’ lives in brief retreat;
Yet in that light, beneath that dome,
A moment held, as still as home.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1052 Flinders station

 

Under the dome where the shadows lean,
Flinders hums with a rusted sheen.
Neon flickers, cigarette glow,
Time runs slow where the loners go.

A young cat stands with his hair pulled tight,
Face half-lost in the edge of night.
Strikes a match with a ghost of flair,
Smoke curls up like a whispered dare.

Trains cry low like a city’s sigh,
The world’s gone crooked, he don't ask why.
Just leans on bricks with a heart half broke,
Chasing peace in a drag of smoke.

Beneath that dome, time don’t forgive,
But he lights up like he wants to live.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1001 Flinders Train Station

 

Subject isolation through a bright prime lens is such a good fun to shoot into the crowd. 

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #856 Flinders Station

 

Having a good bite

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #818 Flinders St Station

 

It looks better in B+W

Sony A7RV

Laowa 9mm f5.6 

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Melbourne Candid Series #816 Flinders St Station

 

That is unexpected

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #559 Flinders Station

 

Little traffic on Xmas Eve

Sony A7RV

FE 24mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #385 Drinking Kool aid

 

I was thinking of that phrase when I saw him drinking something 

Sony A7RV

FE 24mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #384 Elizabeth St Flinders Station

 

Underground walk stroll

I like the vibe from this potentially dangerous corridor 

Sony A7RV

FE 24mm f1.4 GM

Candid 236

Melbourne Street Candid #275 Cosplay at Flinders Station

 

Cosplays are always fun to observe

Panasonic G9

Leica 15mm f1.8

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Melbourne Candid Series #240 Flinders Street Candid

 

Flinders Station candid - last few days, the style of street shoot is via an ultra-wide-angle lens. It is manual as well. The feel is very different both in angle and complexion. 

Sony A7RIV

Laowa 9mm f5.6

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Melbourne Candid Series #238 Flinders Street Station Candid

 

I hope you don't get bored looking at Flinders Station

Sony A7RIV

FE 24mm f1.4 GM

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Linking Face Off

Melbourne Candid Series #237 Flinders Station people

 

When I get lazy, it is so easy to snap at train station

Sony A7RIV

Laowa 9mm f5.6

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Melbourne Candid Series #236 Flinders Street Station

 

What we do when we wait - phone

Sony A7RIV

Laowa 9mm f5.6

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