SPRING!

I know that Spring is coming to an end, but that is no reason not to share some Spring photo's from local areas!


Thornbury:

Carlton:  Pride of Madeira (Photo is practically 'as shot').

North Fitzroy:  These pictures are practically 'as shot'.

Bird of Paradise:

Kew:

all photographs copyright matthew schiavello 2012

Patterns, Texture and Life.. as well as 'a day away with friends'

In celebration of the new year and of the wonderful things that lay ahead for us, I thought I would share some images taken with my little automatic digital camera. Some of these images are of the small often overlooked details, which somehow caught my eye as I passed them.  I do love the idea of some of these below images enlarged and hanging on a wall somewhere.


Patterns- Bark in Thornbury :

Texture- Graffiti-ed wall in Northcote:

Wall in Northcote:

 Peeling post in the city.

Painted wall in Fitzroy (detail)

The details from a wall in Collingwood:

Life- South Yarra:

Life- Or, where life once was (Nth Fitzroy):

Life- In my front garden:

What the fence painter did:

A day away with friends. 

Here are some shots from a recent trip to Daylesford with friends:

Later that night on a walk through the city, I came across this surreal image of a forklift parked on St Kilda Road, out the front of the National Gallery Of Victoria. Surrounding the forklift were trees beautifully lit up with green lights:

neighbourhood walk- Late August 2011

There is one particular area in  my neighbourhood where residential meets industrial. I love that when you look down someones driveway you can see where one world ends and another begins.

The industrial side of the street:

On the wall of a construction site..soon to be demolished I sadly suspect

A few streets away I saw this:

And now for something completely different-
Nothing like a walk through the local cemetery:

Weeds: Life in the margins.

Weeds, we rarely notice them, except as an ugly reminder that our pristine lives are being invaded. That we are losing control over our front or back yards. I know I am guilty of often overlooking their beauty, cursing them to others and trying to get rid of them.

I am reminded that on their 2001 Lp ‘We love life’, Pulp had two songs called  ‘Weeds’ and ‘Weeds II (The origin of the species)’.  Singer Jarvis Cocker used the weeds as an analogy of us humans. Jarvis sang and spoke about us moving about into new areas, taking over, multiplying and displacing the native vegetation. He refers to 'smelly refugees' and I am left wondering if that is how we see refuges, as unwanted weeds spoiling our pristine gardens/land?

As Jarvis Cocker of Pulp said – ‘Bring your camera, take a photo of life on the margins’. As someone else said 'celebrate the beauty of diversity'.

Here is the beauty I noticed as I walked to a friends house for coffee late Friday afternoon: 

 

 

walking the neighbourhood

I had an unexpected day off this week and what better way to spend it, then walking the neighbourhood? I love that during this last month of Winter, you stumble upon plants blossoming, while nearby others lay bare waiting for spring.

Some Natives:

 

 

 More pretty in pink blossom:

Bless my European neighbours with front yards filled with veggies and fruit/olive trees!

 
No idea what these are, but I like them anyway:

A couple of pics from other recent local walks:
Carlton.

 
I find large trees so majestic and captivating.
Nth Fitzroy.

Northcote.

 
Fitzroy.

Nth Fitzroy.

I love walking the neighbourhood !