Welcome to The 20th edition of the series - Scenes from a bike
This Edition facts:
Location: Yesterday I was in my local bar and got into a conversation with a guy about my suburb - North Melbourne, you see his Son was just about to start Uni at the University of Melbourne and he was over (from Adelaide) to help find him a place to live. You see North Melbourne is about a 10 minute walk to the campus of Melbourne Uni - pretty convenient - so when I was looking for a place to ride and take some photos it seemed as good a place as any
Date & Weather: Sunday the 15th of January - the weather again is all over the place, yesterday 37 degrees, today, about 20, grey the light is flat
Equipment: My Fujifilm X-T5, mated with my 16-80mm zoom lens, and a Acros Film simulation in camera for all you monochrome needs.
The Concept & Finances: The concept is simple, I've bought an electric bike, on this bike I explore my hometown, Melbourne Australia and take photos, Priority 1 - Finding new places in Melbourne, Priority 2 - taking better photos, Bonus - Earn back the cost of the bike by creating content and getting paid for it on HIVE. The bike cost $1,100 USD. So far I've earned $118.25 from the previous 19 posts meaning I've paid for just under 11% of the bike and I have $982 to go. This is going to take some time, but this is all bonus money, the joy is in the taking of photos.
Other stuff: Short one today - it's all killer no filler (unless of course you think it's filler, in which case it probably is)
Let's see what I found
Student housing is everywhere, there is a beauty in the repetition
F14, 640ISO, 1/250, 35mm
For all of your Lithium based coffee needs
F6.4, 640ISO, 1/250, 105mm
This sums up Melbourne Uni well, the incredibly old, plenty of concrete and modernity and straggly trees all over the shop
F10, 250ISO, 1/640, 44mm
There is something in the different forms of grey in this - the histogram looks like a ECG - there is white, light grey, medium grey and then black and really nothing else.
F16, 400ISO, 1/250, 24mm
Curves - who doesn't like curves?
F8, 640ISO, 1/250, 44mm
Call me - seriously would this ever get used
F4.5, 640ISO, 1/250, 39mm
And finally this is probably more of what you would expect at a 'Sandstone University' Melbourne Uni was formed in 1853
F8, 400ISO, 1/125, 101mm
