My wife and I had a nice walk yesterday. I did not take a camera and to my surprise, I really wished I had.
Today we repeated the walk, with cam* and apart from slightly less perfect conditions, it was fine.
Not yet out of the front garden, this exercise in Bokeh and dynamic range grabbed me.
Journey starts, a slightly melancholy view from the old rail lines, that lead to the rail yards, now a museum and university campus.
The rear of the yards is much as I remember it from my childhood, but the bit at the back is new as is much of the complex.
The walk skirts the edge of the city so wildlife is not uncommon.
Much of the original infrastructure has been left as is, partly museum, part waiting to see.
The Tamar is actually the longest tidal estuary in the world, three quarters salt water, so seagulls are common.
Part f the new build fr the university, with alight tower from the city stadium. Our sports stadium can hold one quarter f the city seated, most of the rest standing.
A switch to mono that I feel does so well with modern metals and glass.
The stadium up close.
Stadium on right,
University to the right.
Colour, shape, story.
Not as ‘glowy” as yesterday, but still an interesting interplay of shade, light and colour.
The entrance to the museum section, the first stage of the rail works reclamation.
The campus is also accomodation and a coomunal garden. I was here often for the paper. As a child this was a no-go zone or in kid parlance a “try and stop us” zone, but it is great to see an area once abandoned reclaimed by a city on five minutes walk away.
A decent showing of several crops.
At all stages of development.
Leaving the precinct still sporting an operating tram line and station (trams were once a major part of Launceston life).
From here we followed the river to where the Esk meets the Tamar.
*Camera is my oldest, most beaten up EM1 Mk2 and 12-60 Pana kit lens.