Melbourne Candid Series #17

 

Mentone Cafe

Canon 6D

EF 135mm f2 L

135mm photos

Melbourne Candid Series #360 Elizebath St, Melbourne

 

I attempted 135mm fixed focal length to do a trial candid shoot in street. Quite a different perspective. The folks in camera club often told me not to use telephoto lenses in street photography.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 213

Melbourne Candid Series #80

 

Winter Melbourne

Carlton 

Canon 7D

EF 135mm f2

135mm photos

Melbourne Candid Series: #6

 

Federation Square Melbourne

Canon 6D

EF 135mm f2 L

135mm f2 shots

Melbourne Candid Series #35

 

It seems strangers can sometimes bond in an interesting way

Canon 7D 

EF 135mm f2 L 

135mm candids

Melbourne Candid Series #5

 

Street Basking at South Bank

Canon 5D

EF 135mm f2 L

135mm f2 photos

Melbourne Candid Series #41

 

Drummer

Slick tone

Canon 5D 

EF 135mm f2 L

135mm shots

Melbourne Candid Series #794 Epsom Rd Ascot Vale

 

Scary sight

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 548 and FACE OFF

Melbourne Candid Series #841 Nooji Creek

 

The gathering in the woods

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 591

Melbourne Candid Series #256 Outside Melbourne Museum

 

In front of Melbourne Museum 

She is definitely a learner 

Sony A7RIV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 120

Melbourne Candid Series #1131 Bourke St Melb

 

(Same poem as yesterday)

A youth with mullet trailing wild,
A cap hung low, the city’s child,
Stood firm where footsteps throng and blur,
His violin his saboteur.

With rosined bow and eyes cast low,
He summoned tunes both fast and slow,
Each note a cry, a silver thread
Unspooling dreams the street had shed.

Behind him flowed the tram’s refrain,
Its bell a chime through smoke and rain,
While cars crawled past in tangled streams,
Oblivious to his stitched dreams.

He played not for applause or coin,
But for the world he might rejoin—
Where echoes rise through autumn's breath,
And songs outlive the hush of death.

Bourke watched in greys and neon hue,
As music flared and nightfall grew.
The crowd passed by, then circled round—
A boy, a bow, defying sound.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series #215 Beach Fishing at Menton Beach

 

Off Menton Beach, Melbourne

Canon 7D

EF 135mm f2

Dad used to love beach fishing, getting flat heads or brims. They are great for fish stock.

Check out Candid 73

Melbourne Candid Series #1015 Swanston St

Upon his brow, the shadows lay,
As if the night had stolen day.
His weary eyes, so dim, so worn,
Like stars that fade before the morn.

One glance might guess, with softened sight,
He’s wrestled long against the night.
Yet here he stands, though frail and deep,
A soul adrift on tides of sleep.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 772

Melbourne Candid Series #339 Pier Street Port Melbourne

 

The walk along Pier St, Port Melbourne

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 

Check out Candid 190

Melbourne Candid Series #640 Albert Park

 

Lakeside Drive walk

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 416

Melbourne Candid Series #168

 

Smoko! Go Yolo 

The Causeway Corridor 

Canon 7D 

EF 135mm f2 

Melbourne Candid Series #753 Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale

 

He actually tried to sell me a model of Sabre from Manga series. He wanted 250 AUD. I did not buy it in the end. 

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 505

Melbourne Candid Series #761 Epsom Rd, Ascot Vale

 

The whole family in gang

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

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Melbourne Candid Series 1132 Bourke St Mall

 

Laughter on Bourke

He sat in sun, a man of years,
With laughter loud that chased the fears,
In sunglasses, his joy a flare
That split the noon with blazing care.

Beside him, quiet, his small young son,
A shadow short beneath the sun,
Looked up as if to catch the fire
That lit his father's brief desire.

The street around, a surging tide,
With trams and heels and time's long stride,
Yet in that pause the world stood still—
Just sun and blood, and love’s goodwill.

A city’s heart beat all around,
But sweeter was that human sound:
A father's laugh, deep-cut and real,
That spoke what mouths can’t always feel.

On Bourke they sat, mid noon’s wide sprawl,
Two lives adrift, yet held by all—
By sunlight, kinship, breath, and grace,
And joy that time cannot erase.

Sony A7RV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM

Check out Candid 886 This has been one of the top 10 favorite posted on my blog here

Melbourne Candid Series #91

 

Out of Woolies off Latrobe St

Canon 7D

EF 135mm f2 L

Latrobe St Candids