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Tawny Frogmouth by Outback Hillbilly

I took the dogs out for their business and had this feeling something was staring at me. Normally it's my wife but with the still of the night and no noise it had to be something else...

South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-02-03 13:35:41 by s2art

Pockets green wrestle with asphalt and metal fences.

Queensland Pioneer Steam Railways Saturday 10am arrival at Swanbank Station for 11am first run with 1924 built steam locomotive Kilrie. by Lance CASTLE

Built by Perry Engineering of Gawler (S/N 265) in November 1924 this tiny locomotive was one of twelve similar units purchased by the State Rivers & Water Supply Commission of Victoria for use on the construction of the Hume Weir on the Murray River near Albury. Its driving wheels are 28.5 inch (724mm) diameter. These are driven by a boiler working at 150 pounds per square inch and two 10 inch (254mm) diameter by 24 inch (610mm) stroke cylinders actuated by Walschaerts valve gear. After use at the Hume Reservoir from 1925 to 1935, it was placed in storage until sold to the Pioneer Sugar Mill near Brandon, Queensland. It was converted from a 0-4-0T to its present 0-4-2T configuration during 1960 and at the same time converted to burn oil. Sold during 1978 to the Australian Narrow Gauge Preservation Society, who now operate the 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge[1] Woodford Railway in Woodford, Kilrie was purchased by the 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Queensland Pioneer Steam Railway on 27 April 2008. In its time at Swanbank it has been restored to proper working order, reconverted to coal burning and, for reasons of safety and train operation, has also been fitted with a Westinghouse automatic air braking system.

Surfer by ofotograph

Volley by ofotograph

Horizons by ofotograph

RayBans by ofotograph

Happy in the rain by ofotograph

Running between the raindrops by ofotograph

Riverbend Ensemble violinist during the Sunday performance of Music for an Autumn Afternoon at St David’s Anglican Church Chelmer Brisbane. by Lance CASTLE

Riverbend Ensemble is Queensland’s most unexpectedly delightful chamber ensemble; professional musicians who have been playing together for years and bring to audiences their expertise and love of playing together.

Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 22024-07-07 14:46:32 by s2art

Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-04-05 by s2art

Left behind by ofotograph

Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-02-11 by s2art

Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2022-07-24 16:51:47 by s2art

Sunshine, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2018-11-28 19:31:40 by s2art

Spotswood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-02-23 14:49:45 by s2art

Winter Sunrise 3 by itsallgoodamanda

just a litle make over , it was taken a few years ago , I got some more noise out of it and added a little boat to it

West Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2025-03-11 19:21:53 by s2art

A quick side trip on the way home to catch the sun as it sets over the yards, in Autumn.

Perched on the edge of suburban sanity, staring down the grotesque sheetmetal monolith that some city planning degenerate had erected as a monument to urban decay. The graffiti tags were screaming at me in a language only the truly deranged could comprehend. The railway signals loomed like mechanical sentinels, their red eyes watching, always watching. Two glass eyes staring down with bureaucratic indifference at the twisted metal barriers containing the human cattle. Who designed these monstrous fences? Probably the same twisted minds behind airport security and DMV lines.
Behind this hellscape of industrial waste and forgotten infrastructure rose the hideous glass towers of capitalism – monuments to greed that pierced the pristine blue sky like syringes into the arm of God. The contrast was enough to make a sober man hallucinate. Good thing I wasn't sober. The light was pure magic hour madness, that peculiar time when everything looks better than it has any right to. The old brick houses cowered in the shadows, relics of a bygone era when people actually knew their neighbors before they were all priced out by trust fund babies and foreign investors.
This was Australia's dark heart exposed – progress and decay locked in a savage embrace while the power lines cut across the sky like the neural pathways of some collective urban nightmare. You could almost hear the electric buzz of money changing hands, of deals being made in those steel and glass monstrosities downtown.
The whole scene was too much. Too real. Too raw. I needed to look away, but couldn't. This was Melbourne with its mask off, caught between what it was and what it was becoming, and brother, it was one hell of a ride.

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River 1a by itsallgoodamanda

This is River, he decided to drop in on me at the beach and walked right over my camera I had to get the sand and salt water off the extended lens before I snapped this quick pic of him, it was sweet of him to hang around and wait for me, as soon as I took the picture he was off on his adventure.