Eureka Plane

Eureka Plane


Another shot of Eureka today. the moon has become "fuller" and more lights in Eureka was on. There was a small propeller plane just nice flying when I took the photo. I had deliberately placed a small scale model of Eureka on the bottom corner to add a last touch to the picture.

Freeway

Freeway


I was having my tripod on hand. So decided to do a little long experiment. The exposure was set to 30 sec, the longest possible without having to use "bulb" mode. Aperature was set to quite small to get the star pointed light.

Eureka

Eureka

Eureka is finally completed, as what it appears to me. No more crane on top of it. The moon is real, the picture was significatly sharpened and lightened up as this was shot handheld at 88mm on top of a park bench with a chilling strong wind.

Eureka Tower is an apartment building in the Southbank precinct of Melbourne, Australia. Construction began in 2001 and the exterior completed on the *1st of June 2006. The plaza will be finished in June.

Eureka Tower is the tallest skyscraper in the Southern Hemisphere and the tallest residential building in the world when measured to the roof and its amount of liveable floors. However, the Q1 apartment tower in Gold Coast, Queensland has a higher structural tip at 322.5m in height, which by skyscraper standards technically makes it the taller residential tower.

On January 10, 2005, Grocon, the firm building Eureka Tower proposed adding a 53.75m communications mast/observation tower. The proposal is currently before the local planning commission. This mast would be a significant structure, used for providing an adventure climb to the tip of the summit - the highest observation area in the Southern Hemisphere. The 'Big E' as it is known amongst skyscraper enthusiasts, will (by original plan) rise 297.2m above ground (exactly 300m above sea level), and stand at 91 storeys above the ground, as well as one basement floor.

On April 16, 2006, a new proposal was announced that the construction company and developers were considering options for the building to have a "skywalk" that would take daring people up 350 metres high. The proposed structure may also house a communication tower.

On May 23, 2006, the crane ontop of the tower was dismantled by a smaller crane, which was dismantled by a smaller crane that could be taken down the service elevator.
Eureka Tower was designed by Melbourne architectural firm Fender Katsalidis Australia and is being built by Grocon (Grollo Australia). It was designed using the latest version of ArchiCAD by Graphisoft.
Eureka Tower's lift core superseded the height of Rialto Towers on November 9, 2004.
Eureka Tower will have an Observation Deck and Nightclub on the top floor.
Eureka Tower has 24 Carat Gold Glass windows on the top 8 floors of the Building.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

City Loops

City Loops

Shot beside the Yarra River, these loops were used for people to chain their bicycle to it. Taking from a low angle, I on the auto focus and let the camera do it's job as I cannot see the viewfinder. This shot was basically shot using your "guts" to predict where the camera is shooting at.

Old Couple

Old Couple

Shot near the bridge opposite Southgate, these two birds were kissing when i first notice them alone on the jetty. The contrasting jetty with the modern city reflects the out of placeness not forgetting the already bad condition of the jetty.

Marquis

Marquis

Shot outside of the Shrine of Rememberance, Marquies was the first Governer General of Australia. According to my knowledge, a horse with a leg raised up means that he died due to disease or wound in a war but he did not died when he was still fighting.

Barcode

Barcode

Taken at barcode, melbourne central. this is like a pub, bowling, arcade, pool place. But of course, we went there to play pool only. the pool table was small and it had a very small ball and a full sized stick. and that's "why" I cannot really score.

Usage

Since their invention in the 20th century, barcodes -- especially the UPC code -- have slowly become an essential part of modern civilization. Their use is widespread and the technology behind barcodes is constantly improving. Some modern applications of barcodes include:

• Practically every item purchased from a grocery store, department store and mass merchandiser has a barcode on it. This greatly helps in keeping track of the large number of items in a store and also reduces instances of shoplifting. Since the adoption of barcodes, both consumers and retailers have profited from the savings generated.
• Rental car companies keep track of their cars by means of barcodes on the car bumper.
• Airlines track passenger luggage with barcodes, reducing the chance of loss.
• Recently, researchers have placed tiny barcodes on individual bees to track the insects' mating habits.
• NASA relies on barcodes to monitor the thousands of heat tiles that need to be replaced after every space shuttle trip.
• The movement of nuclear waste can be tracked easily with a bar-code inventory system.
• More recently, barcodes have even started appearing on humans. Fashion designers stamp barcodes on their models to help coordinate fashion shows. The codes store information about what outfits each model should be wearing and when they are due on the runway.
• In the late 1990's in Tokyo, there was a fad for temporary barcode shaped tattoos among high school girls.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Shrine of Rememberance

Shrine of Rememberance

Picture of the war memorial, Shrine of Rememberance. On every Anzac Day, there will be families or old ex-soldiers commemorating there with all the badges worn. Lius is decending the great northern stairs.

The Shrine of Remembrance, located in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, is one of the largest war memorials in Australia. It was built as a memorial to the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I, but soon came to be seen as Australia's major memorial to all the 60,000 Australians who died in the war. It now serves as a memorial for all Australians who served in war and it is the site of annual observances of ANZAC Day (25 April) and Remembrance Day (11 November).

Inside the Shrine is the Sanctuary, which contains the Stone of Remembrance. This is a marble stone sunk below the pavement, where visitors must bow their heads to read the inscription:

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN

The Stone is aligned with an aperture in the roof of the Sanctuary so that a ray of sunlight falls on the word LOVE on the Stone of Remembrance at exactly 11am on 11 November, marking the hour and day of the Armistice which ended World War I. Unfortunately the introduction of daylight saving in Victoria meant that the ray of sunlight was no longer in the right place at 11am. A mirror has now been installed in the roof to direct sunlight onto the Stone at 11am. During the rest of the year, a light is used to simulate the effect.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Zoom Zoom

Zoom Zoom


Mr Lius playing his game of pool. With a serious look, aim the ball, pull the stick back and hit it forward and rolls the ball. Too bad he missed the hole.

Away from the Autumn

Away from the Autumn

Lius in this photo, sitting on a bench outside Shrine of Rememberance staring into the horizon of the city. The leaves behind his were dwindling down the trees.

Boinc!

Boinc!

Drop of water boincing back to the air. This photo was originally shot using a red background but it had proven to show very lesser contrast. I cannot get the ripple die to the small container i use. Too bad my physics not that good to calculate all these ripple and relative container size and depth.

Blue Crystal

Blue Crystal

Crystal? Can't be diamonds right! It is actually smashed car window. This shot was taken at Victorian Art College's carpark. It is interesting that the glass had broken into regular squarish shape. It could be due to the laminating if the glass to strengthen it.

Flutist

Flutist

Show on Bourke Street outiside Priceline, this man was playing his flute. It aws very nice, so nice until an old man went infront of him to have a slow step dance with his walking stick.

The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike other woodwind instruments, a flute produces its sound from the flow of air against an edge, instead of using a reed. A musician who plays the flute is generally referred to as either a flautist or a flutist.

Flute tones are sweet in character and blend well with other instruments. The flute's pitch, and various aspects of its timbre are flexible, allowing a very high degree of instantaneous expressive control.

A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across the top of a hole bounces in and out of the hole.^[4] Some engineers have called this a fluidic multivibrator, because it forms a mechanical analogy to an electronic circuit called a multivibrator.

The stream beats against the air in a resonator, usually a tube. The player changes the pitch of the flute by changing the effective length of the resonator. This is done either by closing holes, or more rarely, with a slide similar to a trombone's slide.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Strawberry

Strawberry

Berry berry Strawberry. This special edition has 4 strawberry on itself. Two are boys, two are girls.


The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the Garden strawberry, a Fragaria × ananassa hybrid.
Strawberry farms generally add hives of honeybees to improve pollination

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Lock

Lock

This lock had been there for quite some time. It was somewhere outside Sovereign Apartment.The sunlight was strong and it provided a very vivid and harsh shadow to the lock giving it a robust and strong look.

Pechora Pipit

Pechora Pipit

This bird was at the "desert" under the trees. It looks very cute as it's flattening itself with a legless pose. It then continue with a ungraceful ballet on the sand, washing itself of excess oil (according to Chandra) or just cleaning itself fleas (according to me). There is a lot of this birds especially in Indonesia. I still remember that my mum has a looks-alike but fake replica last time perching on her fake flowers too.

Me!

Me!

My new Canon EOS 350d. haha. Taking shot of myself. Pretty cool huh. (self proclaimed).

By The Moonlight

By The Moonlight

Taken from the balcony of a 9th floor house, the full moon was shining brightly and the clouds around it helps to give a nice horizontal glow around the moon. The moon is blown out so that the government house tower can be exposed properly. I went back home to get my camera and came back to get this scene. I used to thought that this was the Shrine of Rememberance, after googling earth, I discovered that it was actually the Government House.



The main building consists of three parts: the south wing with its extravagant single storey State Ballroom; a grand staircase hall entrance to the three storey State rooms; and two storey vice-regal apartments to the north. Rising from the building is a 145 foot belvedere tower. The mews - a paved area surrounded on three sides by stables, coach houses and staff living quarters is nearby. The garden was designed by John Sayce in 1873 and is thought to be the most intact 19th century mansion garden remaining in Melbourne by the Victorian Heritage Register.
(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Eureka Gone

Eureka Gone

Melboune soon to be tallest tower, Eureka Tower is engulfed in the fog. Guess the people living on the top floor will see the whole city as clouds.


Fog is a cloud in contact with the ground. It occurs when moisture from the surface of the Earth evaporates; as this evaporated moisture moves upward, it cools and condenses into the familiar phenomenon of fog. Fog differs from cloud only in that fog touches the surface of the Earth, while clouds do not.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Foggy Way

Foggy Way

Foggy Trinity Compound. Shot outside Trinity showing the back of Trinity which was foggy. The light rays make the picture looks contradicting.


Note: Sold with 6 other pictures for a total of A$50

Cici (Sister)

Cici (Sister)

Photo of my sister! taken at home. I was inpired by a photo in a photography magazine back in Indonesia and I tried and it came out quite badly. Recently I just saw another picture using this kind of tecnique in the Australian Photography Magazine. So I tried my luck this time using a table light with a tapered end using paper. Then finally using a large mainly translucent container as the diffuser. Well, I have to say not very bad for second try even thought I do not understand what the book teaches using the hard box light etc.

By the way, her name is Cindy. Catch more of her stories at http://www.cuex-x.blogspot.com hope i spelt that correctly

Appreciation

Appreciation


Shot of the Old Law building with my friend, Lius standing. I do think he is staring at the sunlight. But I don't think, I mean I think that the building is so nice with the archs. I do think I do have to say a Big Thank You!

Keep off the grass

Keep off the grass

Shot in Melbourne University. This art piece was dony by Kathryn Chishovsky as part of her art work, Keep off the grass. The lig on the right hand side is not part of the art, it is Lius's leg.

Yellow!

Yellow!

Shot in Trinity, just outside Evan Burge, I was on my way for Literature Lecture when i saw this beautiful yellow flower.

Liquor

Liquor

Shot in Waterfront Restaurent too. It has thos row of colourful drinks displayed on the alley to the restroom.


The word spirits generally refers to distilled beverages low in sugars and containing at least 35% alcohol by volume. Beer and wine were historically limited to a maximum alcohol content of about 15 percent by volume, beyond which yeast is adversely affected and cannot ferment. Alcohol levels higher than 15 percent have historically been obtained in a number of ways.

Spirits may be served in a variety of ways, some of which include:

• On the rocks - spirits are to be served and drunk over ice.
• Straight up - the spirit is to be shaken or stirred with ice, but drunk by itself, with the ice filtered out.
• Neat - the spirit is served and consumed by itself, with nothing added.

(courtesy wikiepdia.com)

Burning Passion

Burning Passion

Shot in the Waterfront Restaurant. it has a round liquid lit candle. Looks very elegant. Waiting for my new DSLR on this saturday before the fire run out.

Rest

Rest

Ahhh.. Rest! Shake leg! Well, of couse the latter was not done to get this picture.


TRAMs

The city of Melbourne, the second-largest city in Australia, is home to the third largest tram network in the world, consisting of 245 kilometres of track, 500 trams, and 1770 tram stops. Operated by the private company Yarra Trams since privatisation in the late 1990s, Melbourne's trams contribute greatly to the city's distinctive character and are held in great affection by the people of Melbourne.

There are cuurently Z3, W6, D class, B2, A1 and C class tram operating in Melbourne.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Teeth

Teeth

Taken at Waterfront Restaurant. Charles ordered this fish which looks abit like piranha.

City Hall

City Hall

Taken along Collins Street. The light shown onto the trees are beautiful and it matches with the Town Hall's bulding.

The building is topped by Prince Alfred's Tower, named after the Duke. The Tower includes a 2.44 m diameter clock, which was started on August 31, 1874, after being presented to the council by the Mayor's son, Vallange Condell. It was built by Smith and Sons of London. The longest of its copper hands measures 1.19 m long, and weighs 8.85 kg.

In 1925, a fire destroyed a large part of the town hall, including the main auditorium and pipe organ. It was rebuilt and enlarged, extending east over the site previously occupied by the Victoria Coffee Palace, an early temperance hotel frequented by Melbourne's power brokers. The rebuilt section lost some of Reed's original flourishes including the elaborate mansard roof.

(courtesy wikipedia.com)

Road Not Taken

Road Not Taken

The road not taken was shot near Yarra river, opposite the Art Gallery. The road witht he overhanging trees at the top of the road gives a sense of a guide to the horizon.


The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)


The theme of this poem is "Be different!" Not very different thought. Making decision is always hard, you will not nkow what is the outcome nor you can go back. Live is lived forward and understood backwords! Right or wrong decision makes large different.