2016 is fast coming to an end. I thought it might be interesting to share with you some photographs I snapped over the course of the year.
There is no rhyme or reason to these images, they are more a pictorial diary of my year.
No1 – The city skyline of Melbourne.
During the school holidays I was called upon to look after two of my grandchildren. I snapped this shot from the waterfront at Williamstown, looking across Hobson”s Bay, while we were talking an evening walk.
No2 – Barongarook Creek Bridge.
I had seen a 19th century postcard taken from almost the same spot I stood to take this photograph. It was my intention to attempt emulating his work.
The postcard photographer would have been standing in the middle of what is now the Princes Highway. There were two reasons I chose to stand on the footpath to take my shot. The first is the busyness of the highway (the main carriageway in and out of Colac) and the tree to the left of the bridge would have blocked out the old Post Office and the old Shire Hall.
No3 – Lake Bullen Merri.
This lake is near Camperdown, a small town near where I live. Though reasonably close to my home, I had not visited the area for sometime.
No4 – Memorial Square.
This Memorial is situated on the main street of Colac, near where I live.
No5 – Otway Ranges
The seaside town of Apollo Bay sits at the foot of the range of mountains simply known as the Otways. Here the houses seemed to be dwarfed by the mountains behind them.
No6,7,8,9 – Lake Colac.
By the autumn of 2016 the lake had almost dried up. No decent rain had fallen for a couple of years and it seemed that Lake Colac would dry up completely for only the second or third time since European occupation.
No10 – Lake Colac.
However winter and spring gave us some of our wettest months for a long time. And, though far from being full, it, at least, looks like a lake again.
No11 – The old Prince of Wales Inn.
The bridge in the foreground of this photograph was washed away by rushing water after a deluge that lasted all one night and most of the next day.
No12 – Storm Front.
I took this photograph from my front verandah. Just minutes after I clicked the shutter, the heavens opened up and I watched nature at her most fierce. I spent the next few hours in darkness as the electricity failed.
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