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Melbourne Photowalk

Aaron Tan — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:15:23 +0000

Did a bit of a wander around with some guys tonight. Good to have a chat and get some snaps (and some pretty decent ones at that)

Check the whole set out here.

Day Four

Aaron Tan — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:46:36 +0000

Was in Melbourne tonight roaming around Southbank, captured the facial expression of this kid…priceless.

Adds a bit of mystery to the image.

Some skies and a bridge.

Aaron Tan — Thu, 12 May 2011 12:00:28 +0000

Uploaded some photos I had in my collection last night. Enjoy.

Sarah, otherwise known as “The Wife” looking into the sunset down at Rye, VIC at Easter

I was driving down some road and saw this, the camera was on my passenger seat. I snapped it while driving..Probably should have stopped and set something up.

This was taken a few years ago, after the Australian Open. Connects Melbourne Park to the MCG I think over some of the railway lines. I thought the purple lights came out great.

I finally took some photos.

Aaron Tan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:12:25 +0000

Over the last..some months.. I have been busy with everything besides using my camera. Motivated by..the heat of the recent 30 degree Melbourne day and wanting to get OUT of the house, I drove down to Docklands and snapped a bunch of photos…3 of which I present to you here.It was actually a bit educational as I learnt about some of the things in these photos..I.e that John Kelly sculpture..

It was a nice way to spend an hour or so wandering around on such an awesome Spring night.

Click the photo to view larger ones @ my flickr site.

Drove past this building, thought that it would make a nice backdrop for my car. Somewhat related is the 2, the model of the car is a 200SX. Make of it what you will. This was located around the Docklands area. Cropped the sky off this one, this was around sunset.

An art sculpture of a cow, up a tree which lives permanently in Melbourne’s Docklands precinct. It was made by John Kelly and was based around flood imagery from Australia. The sun was setting, and for some reason I like putting the sun behind things so here we go. Plus the sky was looking pretty cool… Initially this was a portrait oriented image but I cropped it a bit and adjusted some levels as well.

I haven’t been around Docklands for awhile, so i’m not sure if the silhouette of a large green and red ball is always there but it made it into this photo. I assume it might be there for Christmas..either way, I’d like to find out what the story is behind the pillars left in the water. I know the caps on them are to stop seagulls standing on them, but i think they’re just left over foundations of whatever used to be there.

Southbank, Melbourne – Feb 2010

Aaron Tan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:48:41 +0000

For the past 3 weeks, Tuesday nights in Melbourne have seen a decent gathering of rollers the Riverslide skatepark. If you’re up for some chill sessions you should come down and check it out.

During this time we’ve also made some new international friends by the name of Dave (USA) and Zack (Europe) – So shout outs to those guys.

Last night a few of us went for a look down Southbank by the Yarra river, Unfortunately I didn’t have my sync cables fso was relying on the SB-26′s optical slave function..

Here’s a few simple snaps I ran off while we were there.

Dave – Soul
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600| 1/160s
Nikon SB-26 camera right, 1/8 @ 50mm

Brad – top porn
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@10mm | ƒ/3.5 | ISO 1600| 1/125s
Nikon SB-26 camera left, 1/8 @ 35mm

Kev, Dave, Brad and Zack
Canon 40D | Tokina 10-17mm(ƒ/3.5-4.5)@13mm | ƒ/4.0 | ISO 1600| 1/6s
available light, handheld

Upcoming: 2009 VIC Inline Titles

Aaron Tan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:51:13 +0000

Keep an eye out next week for my photos/coverage from the VICTORIAN INLINE TITLES run by RollVic, taking place in Ballarat on the 28th of November 2009. I’ll be posting updates to our local Aussie Rolling source, EMESCE as well.

Apologies for the lack of updates during the past two weeks. The weather in Melbourne has been BLOODY HOT..and I hate skating in 35c weather.

Beer, shorts and a wifebeater is the way to be on a hot Melbourne day. Agree?

2009 VIC Inline Titles Flyer

Earning my way

Aaron Tan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:30:26 +0000

Melbourne Laneway
Canon 300D | 18-55mm(ƒ/3.5-5.6) | ƒ/4.0 | ISO 100| 1/13s

Club lush Dallas

This is one of those shots out of the archive. I took it with my good old Canon 300D – My first SLR. Its dated 20/4/2006 and from what I remember I was just wondering around the city, sighted this, lined up the shot and fired away. This is on Little Collins St, looking down The Causeway (one of the many interesting lanes in Melbourne). The Big Issue is typically sold by homeless people trying to make some money, earning half of the profits from the magazine they sell. Good to see these people giving it a shot, instead of just slumming it around the place begging for money. I keep on saying I want to buy one… and I will one day.