Photo Blog

Sweet colours

Posted on 22 July 2019 It was impossible not to notice the outdoor seating ready for brunch customers at Melbourne's Sweet Canteen in Driver Lane, off Little Bourke Street, recently. © 2019 Ross Collins

Grazing

Posted on 21 July 2019 I found this Eurasian Coot happy in his own company feeding in a sunny backwater at the Newport Lakes in Victoria recently. © 2019 Ross Collins

People watching

Posted on 20 July 2019 Life's passing parade was a tough look for characters in the window of a first floor costume hire business in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. © 2019 Ross Collins

Remaining, hopeful

Posted on 19 July 2019 I didn't see any prospective passengers buying tickets for the afternoon Yarra River cruise in Melbourne last Sunday. © 2019 Ross Collins

Entering the frame

Posted on 18 July 2019 When this example of the bird known in New Zealand by its Maori name pukeko, but in Australia as the purple swamphen, wandered across my path at the Newport Lakes in Victoria, I didn't have to wait long for it to fill my lens. © 2019 Ross Collins

Environmental responsibility

Posted on 17 July 2019 It's pleasing to see that the Caltex Melbourne Terminal at Newport contains its effluent securely. © 2019 Ross Collins

Shopping belle

Posted on 16 July 2019 I'm not sure this image in Yarraville, Victoria near the iconic Sun Theatre was the thought that inspired Paul McCartney's songwriting, but it's certainly quirky. © 2019 Ross Collins

Untouchable

Posted on 15 July 2019 Five years after Adnate created his superb 23-metre tall mural portrait in Hosier Lane of an Indigenous Aboriginal boy from Melbourne's northern suburbs, it has remained inaccessible to would-be taggers. © 2019 Ross Collins

Sidelined

Posted on 14 July 2019 I spotted this curious railway exhibit from a bygone era at the Altona Station west of Melbourne. © 2019 Ross Collins

Then and now

Posted on 13 July 2019 Long after decommissioning at the end of World War II and its later use for training, lights on the stern of the now-museum ship HMAS Castlemaine were reflecting in Port Phillip Bay at Gem Pier in Williamstown, Victoria against the Melbourne skyline. © 2019 Ross Collins

Don't fence me in

Posted on 12 July 2019 This single section of fence (or perhaps a former gate) in the Newport Lakes Reserve in Victoria appears to no longer serve any useful purpose - unless you are a photographer seeing it in the golden light of sunset. © 2019 Ross Collins

Heritage row

Posted on 11 July 2019 Once considered as a possible capital for the new colony at Port Phillip and the site of Australia's first telegraph line which ran to Melbourne, Williamstown still features an unbroken line of period buildings facing Port Phillip Bay along Nelson Place. © 2019 Ross Collins

Mirrored

Posted on 10 July 2019 Some black swans and their cygnets were feeding on Port Phillip Bay at Seaholme, near Altona, Victoria. © 2019 Ross Collins

But for you, Steve ...

Posted on 9 July 2019 ... your final whale hunter chase is over. The now-retired 'MY Steve Irwin', saved from scrapping for a future life as a museum ship, remains moored at the Sea Shepherd Australia Southern Operations Base at Williamstown, Victoria. © 2019 Ross Collins

Shooting through

Posted on 8 July 2019 Blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Nathan Beretta was performing with his band to a packed-out crowd for the Way Out West Roots Music Club yesterday in his last Melbourne appearance before he relocates to Coffs Harbour. © 2019 Ross Collins