Guy in a bus doorway with his camera phone framed in bright red. June 2025 - 18mm - 180th - ƒ/3.6 - iso400

Diminishing Perspective, a worker clearly having a lunch break and browsing his phone and S. T. Gill (famous watercolour painter from the GoldFields). All in one shot. So this photo taken at the old Melbourne Post Office (Melbourne 3000) and is a classic shot of archways appearing to get smaller into the distance, which creates an illusion of depth using vanishing points where parallel lines converge. But every time I go there, seems someone is in the way of allowing a great photo. Not a problem with Adobe's new AI Removal tool. So when you get photobombed by a Seagull or someone inadvertently walking into the frame while out taking photos, not a problem . . . adopt the old motto "I'll Fix it later in Photoshop, lets move on!" Notice how AI figured out what might have been had the worker not been there, but it didn't figure out how to light up the bench with the bright pillar light behind him. Oh well, unless I told you, would you have noticed it? So how does S.T. Gill fit into this situation. Well he is my favourite artist of the Goldfields era, but somewhere along these steps, and the area around the old Melbourne Post Office he collapsed and passed away from an aneurism of the aorta - 27 Oct 1880 (Aged 62). Conflicted with both drink and syphilis at the time, it was a very sad end to an amazing Victorian Artistic Talent. In 1913, finally he was buried in the Melbourne Cemetery, I hope to one day soon visit his grave site.

Hi All, I'm Sammy and I'm an event photographer and street photographer in Los Angeles. Just thought I'd share some of the images from the parade downtown yesterday that I shot.

Last night and the view to Flinders Street Station Melbourne. All lit up, you will notice the dome at the top has an appearance of half a Basketball. Otherwise many other buildings around the city are lit with Red, White and Blue colours. The event was the previous 4 days and a team from the NBA (the New Orleans Pelicans) visiting to play the local NBL league top players. Oddly, no longer is it a one way street of Australian players (think Andrew Bogut and Ben Simmons) headed to the US and the NBA. Now we are seeing a lot of highly paid NBA players opting to come to Australia to play in our local league here. However, what I wished to comment on is just how difficult it can be to perform edits on externally lit buildings like this. I find it best to do the edits while the vision of the photo is fresh in my mind. How do you handle situations like this? Regardless, when it comes to Melbourne, its always best to wait for a Tram to be moving into the scene as shown. Its a freebie that adds to location identification.

A few of favourites from a few cities.