Melba Gully State Forest

One of our stops was at Melba Gully.  It is beautiful, lush green, with a wonderful coolness under the trees.

You start the walk going down wooden steps.  All the while you can hear the river running. 

Moss grows on every piece of wood that is in the shade. 

We found the picnic area.  The view from there is beautiful.  You look out over the trees and the gully with the river.  So peaceful…

Wooden bridges carry you crisscross the river.  Big wide ferns hang over the path creating shade.

We walked up these steep steps to see the big tree.

To find the tree had fallen over and the rest of the path is closed off because of a landslide… oh well.  Still beautiful and the calf muscles got  a really good workout.

The little waterfall we found along the path.

Everywhere little flowers were blooming and interesting moss grew on the trees.  Definitely worth stopping over at Melba Gully.

      

Night lights in Melbourne

Walking back from class in the evenings, I have to pause often:  waiting for a light to change, my tram to come…  I love taking photos in those moments.  (I have missed the light changing a few times and have had to run for the tram!)

Playing around with long exposure, this photo is of a truck coming past.

I struggle to resist photographing the footbridge across the Yarra river.  The blue and the curves always draws  my eye.  Taking photos from the bridge is tricky, since it bounces whenever anyone else walks over it.

 

I saw a car about to make a u-turn on Flinder’s street and decided to try to capture it.  Makes for a funky light effect.

We have to take more panning shots for class, so I spent the next 15 minutes waiting for the tram playing around.

I didn’t really get the tram right, but the photo is a little spooky…

I think this one of a taxi didn’t come out too bad though.

Night time on the Yarra

This week the moon was full when I walked to class.  It was quite something to see the hazy moon peek between the clouds.

Walking back, everything was lit up really bright against the dark night sky.

Flinders Street Station is always so colourful.  There is so much life and energy in that building.

Waiting for the tram on the corner of Flinders' and Swanston is always fascinating.  Tons of cars and people streaming past.