The Adelaide Hilton Hotel

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After an evening band shoot at a city pub, I was heading home via public transport from Victoria Square, Adelaide, and could not resist trying again for a definitive portrait of the Hilton Hotel, in the full beauty of its floodlights. I steadied the camera against the uprights of the bus shelter and picked up a few frames of which this one has the most comfortable composition. The chip does a remarkable job of registering the intense contrast in a night time image, the length of exposure can be seen from the blurring of the pedestrian and car at lower left, and the frame was enhanced with the usual round of tweaks via Irfanview for publication. August, 2009. Fuji FinePix S5600, automatic. Image by Mike.

Windows in a Sea of Leaves

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This is one of those serendipitous shots. I was on my way to a bus stop, looked around and there it was -- the symmetry just begged to be recorded. It's evocative of the 'island of environment' notion, a building surrounded by trees surrounded by buildings, as you move from two dimensions to three. This is Victoria Square, Adelaide, 'Tarndanyangga' in the Kaurna language, the largest of the city's squares and the very heart of South Australia. It's grown up massively since 1837 and is now mostly circled with skyscrapers. This is the brand new SA Water building, at No 1 Victoria Square probably the most prestigious address in the state. I zoomed to exclude all ground clutter and let the automatics handle exposure, the FinePix S5600 does another superb job with a reflex shot on a sunny afternoon in mid-November 2008.