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I'm sure I've posted this before but it suits the theme of first light/last light. Special effects added by a camera phone struggling with low light.

cheers for sharing, snappers. piercing land of the rising sun pic @zen..
@old-dog, I assumed the gulls pics were among your vintage shots.. but must me newer, yeh? that's how acclimatised I've become to the drone world (unless you hired a chopper back in the day, haha).

Kimberley sunset last year. No photoshop.

Woah Wally- kaboom! That's a cracker.

seeds wrote:

I love it when the purple kicks in. Doesn’t happen all that often, it more so fades to grey mostly.

I have a feeling I might have put this one up before. Gold fish memory perhaps.

I used to surf occasionally with an ex art director at Satchi & Satchi. One morning we were having coffee and waiting for the sunrise and he started getting excited just as first light appeared. He spent 10 mins as the sun started to come up pointing out colours and various other interesting stuff in the light as it came.
90% of what he showed me I had never seen before even though I had seen many similar sunrises. Purple especially was a highlight and from then on I have never watched a sunrise the same. It really is magic and wonder.

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

We get diatom congregations around this time of year and when you walk on the beach just as the last light fades you get electric blue flashes as you tread on the wet sand. If there is a gentle shore break you blue explosions along the sand line. Not quite your green flash but cool none the less.

The mythical green flash is up there with drop bears as a story for the tourists.

I've seen both along with the Nannup tiger

Roadkill wrote:

seeds wrote:

I love it when the purple kicks in. Doesn’t happen all that often, it more so fades to grey mostly.

I have a feeling I might have put this one up before. Gold fish memory perhaps.

I used to surf occasionally with an ex art director at Satchi & Satchi. One morning we were having coffee and waiting for the sunrise and he started getting excited just as first light appeared. He spent 10 mins as the sun started to come up pointing out colours and various other interesting stuff in the light as it came.
90% of what he showed me I had never seen before even though I had seen many similar sunrises. Purple especially was a highlight and from then on I have never watched a sunrise the same. It really is magic and wonder.

“ You used to surf with an ex art director at
Satchi and Satchi “
Never heard of it
Is that like a peak where you can go left or right , but have to yell out Satchi if you’re
going either left or right, , ?

One of the biggest advertising companies in the world.

old-dog wrote:

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

Old- Dog. Hi mate.
It sure does exist.
I’ve seen it plenty of times.
The earths atmosphere bends light from the sun and the wavelength that produces the Green light is very short thus enabling us to see it for 1-2 seconds before the suns light disappears below the horizon. AW

old-dog wrote:

Because our coast faces west and the sun sets over the sea, we get all these Euro tourists waiting to see the mythical green flash as the sun disappears. I can see the sun set every night from my balcony, but I've never seen it.

that was number 2 on our list @old-dog, upon deciding to abandon the gulf as our primary residence to start a family. My lovely partner and I made a list of things we'd miss: 'southern ocean is the cleanest ocean in the word, but the gulfs have vast west-facing sunsets' was right there after 'central market'.

Hi AW, I read that Jules Verne was captivated by the green flash and wrote a novel about it. Le Rayon Vert. It was said that if you saw it, you got a heightened perception and were able to fully understand yours and others feelings. In the novel a young couple go searching for it across Scotland.
Apparently, it's a pretty rare spectacle, needing certain atmospheric conditions, if you blink you may miss it and airline pilots flying west over ocean are most likely to see it. I gave up looking for it. Cheers.

Ok, I have confirmed with my long term Broome resident friends that the green flash is real, but it is quite uncommon.

wally wrote:

Ok, I have confirmed with my long term Broome resident friends that the green flash is real, but it is quite uncommon.

Wally. Hi mate. Beautiful Kimberley sunset, so nice to see no ‘s’ on the end like many people do.

At a prickly beach in SA Summer just gone me and my two mates saw it on more than one occasion. I deliberately look for it. AW

I once saw it from a jet flying to WA.
Not particularly impressive or anything but definitely real.

While not a flash, we got to witness the bright green glow right before the sun disappeared on a recent trip west. The next day it wasn't to be seen, a very elusive phenomena!

Here are a couple of snaps from beyond the black stump. (Also great shots Wally and Blackers, moody!)

Epic Craig. Stobie poles marching into the sunset and big sky dune scapes. Lovely.

Epic shots Craig- would kill for some Big Sky country right now after so much rain.

Great shots Craig. That left looks sublime.

Beautiful!

As soon as I saw "taken today in a public toilet" I was expecting a photo of Alan Jones.

What a shame, that's a great looking structure.

GuySmiley wrote:

Very funny, but for that sort of action it was the Fitzroy Gardens up until the demolition of these award winning public facilities

https://architectureau.com/articles/demolition/

GuySmiley. Hi mate. Thanks for posting that.
I love design and architecture, especially in public places, because, it has to and needs to be enduring for life almost, stand the test of time so to speak.

That’s crap, they should be sued. Back when it was built that would have been state of the art for the times especially using natural air flow as a deodorant.
The stone work and roof very much coupled to the Australian way, landscape and life.

It’s an ongoing issue, this whole tidying up of everything and the need for neat and tidy, pisses me right off.
The poor excuse and meek explanation about its current activities are not solely isolated to old public toilets, ‘those activities described’ could be happening anywhere, down a land, behind a pub or in disused wharehouses, in fact in all manner of locations.

It was the fucking neat and tidy brigade , again, AW

Agree AW, I hate that councils see the need to "formalise" everything - parks, footpaths, every last beachside carpark, you name it.
It's the old "man versus nature, the road to victory".

I've got lotsa lost things at my joint (no public loos).. there's a mid-century pebblecrete bus stop (with an appealing angled tapering towards a heavier top than bottom) on the Melbs side of scarsdale or maybe smythesdale I always drive by and wanna ask if I can rescue in case it gets gobbled..

outer-hebridean bus shelters: where the wind will always come from somewhere, and 3/4 of everywhere.. gives an isolated easter island effect in certain lights..
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6b7a372d33685c06&q=isle+of+lewis+b...
brutalism works well in brutal conditions

AndyM wrote:

Agree AW, I hate that councils see the need to "formalise" everything - parks, footpaths, every last beachside carpark, you name it.
It's the old "man versus nature, the road to victory".

AndyM. Hi pal.

Moreover, this tidy disease has become enshrined or ensconced in the mindsets and the vernacular of the new Australian way with reference to town planners and government beheld architects. But mostly driven by insurance companies not wanting to make pay outs yet they’ll hastily remind you when your insurance monthly debit is overdue.
From my observations it’s particularly notable in small rural towns and areas.
A real period of homogenisation has gripped the world including here in Oz

I’ll cite two examples, both here in Victoria.

The township of Healesville 25 years ago got an unwanted facelift.
Town is about 55k NW of Melbourne, very popular with day or weekend trippers wanting some country feel, fresh air, nature, wildlife, bakeries, coffee, bric- a-brac etc. Very similar to Maleny in the hinterland of the Sunshine Coast, QLD.

Outside all the shops and other businesses were well trodden and worn, fine particle sized compacted granitic sand footpaths, atypical of Australian rural towns pre and post war periods.
The footpaths and buildings fitted together like a glove.
In to the equation comes town planners and their ‘preferred’ landscape architects.
Before you know it all footpaths are red brick paved in a herringbone pattern, something that simply didn’t fit the aesthetics of the towns past or future history.
So Healesville now looks like some suburban shopping area that looks like some other shopping area and so on, totally changed and destroyed its original face.
The very reason people visited was taken away because it lost its country feel.

As a result, many people complained, visitors were fewer, then several years later the local council gets hit up with damage claims as many people, particularly elderly, fell or tripped on paving that had lipped or sunk or was uneven.
End result the paving was a curse and made Healesville no longer look like a rural town.
Last I heard there was a petition to have the paving removed.
Sound message, if it ain’t broken, don’t touch or attempt to fix it.

Second example is a small village town near where I live who have done something similar, soft under feet, granitic sand has now been replaced with stock standard grey concrete.
It’s changed the historical face of town, over Summer it felt hotter with all the ambient heat released from the concrete.
Sometimes you’ve gotta be careful what you wish for.

In many cases in rural towns, they got it right, today we get it wrong.
In fact, look at old shopfronts from the past, the doorway was deep set, always a verandah out to posts over the footpath, our forebears were smart, they knew how to make a shop cool in Summer by basic clever architecture.
I really wonder about societies sometimes, just because it’s old doesn’t mean people were dumber or less smart back then , in fact they were probably smarter than today. AW

I hope Somerset Council never knocks down the Esk Lions Park bomb shelter. It’s always a pleasure.

GuySmiley wrote:

Hey @AW, I did years 7 & 8 in East Melbourne and later worked in the city for years and used to walk past those toilets for years, yes they were an amazing example of public infrastructure. I only needed to use them once and lo and behold two men just appeared out of the cubicle … instant stage fright and I was out of there … and then it was gone. I heard about its reputation and why council demolished later, very sad. They flogged off the amazing tea rooms in the gardens as well

Good stuff GuySmiley, I know you love architecture as well. There’s something innate about clever, thoughtful and meaningful design, it grabs you. AW

basesix wrote:

outer-hebridean bus shelters: where the wind will always come from somewhere, and 3/4 of everywhere.. gives an isolated easter island effect in certain lights..
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6b7a372d33685c06&q=isle+of+lewis+b...
brutalism works well in brutal conditions

Basesix. Hi mate.

The Russians, my god, they’ve got bus stops built from shitloads of concrete, easily used for a bomb shelter.
Very Stalinistic in style.
Alas, here at home in Canberra. Anyone seen those crazy concrete bus stops, wow. AW

seeds wrote:

I hope Somerset Council never knocks down the Esk Lions Park bomb shelter. It’s always a pleasure.

Seeds. Hi mate. Ya crusing ?

Pissed myself laughing at your bomb shelter. “ It’s always a pleasure’”.
Making your taxpayers dollar go further, or is it some come here to sit and think, others come here to shit and stink. AW

I can confirm it’s the latter @AW

my auntie woke up at cocklebiddy this morning, took this at newman rocks tonight..