Melbourne Candid Series #1210 Lonsdale St

 

Along Lonsdale’s measured lanes he rides,
A muted engine humming time and need;
Steel wheels trace the city’s patient tides
Where lines are drawn for motion, not for speed.

His helmet seals the weather from his face,
A visor holding back the urban glare;
The jacket bears the scuffs of constant pace,
The marks of work repeated everywhere.

Behind him, boxed and bound in canvas square,
Tomorrow’s meals and moments wait their turn;
The city eats, and he must ferry care
From door to door where lights and kettles burn.

No fanfare greets him as he slips between
The kerb and traffic’s unrelenting flow;
Yet Melbourne’s pulse, efficient and unseen,
Moves partly by the miles his tyres know.

O Lonsdale Street, your verses hum and roll
On battery and breath and borrowed time;
In one brief pass, a rider makes you whole
A working line within the city’s rhyme.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1209 Lonsdale St

 

Along Lonsdale where the noon light pales,
He walks the narrow margin of the day,
Stone walls to one side, traffic’s distant tales
Unspooling where the city bends away.

The footpath keeps his measured, solitary pace,
A quiet drum beneath his steady stride;
Head bowed not in sorrow but in grace
Of thought absorbed, the world held close inside.

A plastic bag swings low with common needs,
Bread for the night, the ordinary fare;
No anthem here but headphones whispering seeds
Of private worlds no passerby can share.

The city does not pause to learn his name—
It rarely does, and rarely needs to know—
Yet in this frame, unchanged, unnamed, he claims
His moment as the streets continue to flow.

O Lonsdale Street, in monochrome and stone,
You hold a thousand lives like this in trust:
Each step a verse, each passerby alone,
Each day composed of habit, will, and dust.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #1047 Londsale St

 

Upon Lonsdale Street, in twilight's shade,
A weary man, mid-years and grey,
With bottle dark in hand he strayed,
Its label long since peeled away.

A heavy sack upon his arm,
With secrets cloaked in cloth and thread,
He moved with neither haste nor charm,
Where quiet city footsteps led.

His beard was worn by time’s slow tide,
Now streaked with ash, with silver lined,
And through a strolling pair he tried
To weave his path, as if inclined—

By purpose strange, or whims unknown,
He wandered on, yet not alone.

Sony A7RV

FE 35mm f1.4 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #991 Lonsdale Rd

 

Busy attending to the queue of customers

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #990 Lonsdale Rd

 

Not sure what era is waxing the hair fashionable for men

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series 989 Lonsdale St

 

Indeed, I had not directed my focus upon them until their reaction drew my attention. I then decided to capture an image. My endeavor at that moment was to hone the technique of panning with moving automobiles.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #988 Lonsdale St

 

Persons of diverse ethnic backgrounds stand in anticipation, awaiting the traffic signals to grant them passage by turning green.

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #924 Lonsdale St

 

Doomscrolling on the phone

Sony A7RV

FE 50mm f1.2 GM

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I wish every reader a very Merry Christmas! 

Melbourne Candid Series #176

 

Off Lonsdale St

A Greek festival is happening. Not much except a lot of souvlaki around 

Panasonic G9

Leica 42.5mm f1.2 

Check out old post Candid 39

Melbourne Candid Series #173

 

Lonsdale St event - some sort of fairs where a guy is painting something funky on a canvas

Panasonic G9

Leica 12-60mm f2.8-4

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Melbourne Candid Series #16

 

No please

Lonsdale St 

Pentax K20D

FA 77mm f1.8 limited

77mm shots