Photo Trip #1

Well, I hope this is photo trip #1 of many.  This sort of thing is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, it just doesn't usually work out.  Normally for weather reasons.  On Wednesday evening, I did my first decent run in a while, and enjoyed seeing the green and red lights on various city icons - the Kurilpa bridge, the wheel, QPAC.  I thought, I'd love to get some photos...  I was going to do this on Thursday but I realised my timing with dinner was all out (not a huge deal, but enough for my brain to short out - dinner won).  So Friday it was.  In the afternoon we had super clouds but not much storm, just a heap of rain all of a sudden.  I anticipated the clouds still hanging around would make the photos more atmospheric.  I was right.  I left home just after 6, which was pretty perfect timing I think.

There was something I wanted to check out (sales!) in the city, and I went from there up the Queen St Mall.  The lights were just beginning to come on, turning the Treasury Casino red.

Waiting for the lights to change at William St, the gloominess plus the streetlights plus the red lights all added up to a pretty cool photo.  I put it on Instagram with the Xpro-II filter and so far it's my most popular image :)

Crossing the Victoria Bridge, I felt like a total tourist.  But I do like a silvery river.  I contemplated coming across again straight away on the other side, as the clouds to the west were pretty spectacular.  But my main goal was a photo from the west of the Kurilpa bridge with the city in the background.  Below is another I put on Instagram, also with the Xpro-II filter - second-most popular image so far.

I even checked my map (no apple maps jokes, thanks...) and thought I had to go to the Go Between  Bridge... Silly me.  Not only did I have to walk through a fairly dodgy part of town, but I ended up coming back to the William Jolly Bridge.  Face palm. 

And, when I got to the Kurilpa, with the city in the background, I saw the colour filters were not working.  One of them was flickering (spooky much?!) but the others just weren't on. 

Still took a couple more photos of course.  Bit of zoom for this one so it's not quite so clear.  The whole trip (including shopping) took just under 1 hour 45 minutes.