ROBERT SLATER PHOTOGRAPHY

Category: Photos while walking about

  • Last Light at the You Yangs

    Last Light at the You Yangs

    I wasn’t really planning to go. It was a bit late in the day and the park closes at sunset. Somehow with more than half a tank of liquid gold in the old jag and that itch to get out. I ended up parking at the entrance and walking in. I had the 60mm APO macro and because of that i grabbed my little tripod. Just in case i wanted to grab a shot.

    I’m never chasing golden hour. It’s the time after that I like. Just before dark, when the light softens and colours separate out. Walking in the forest, looking for that special feature to focus on, to bring things into sharp relief.

    I had that in my head but it isn’t really landing. The real shape of the forest is just the trees and the silence before the Cockatoos started shouting at me to bugger off.

    I pointed it at the trees.

    There was the photo. The bright lit orange/yellow smooth branches appearing to lean in. Framed by a curved ghost gum. The light almost gone. I am glad i took the tripod. 1/15th second. F5.6.

    The long red wavelengths finding their way to the sensor. The darkness around like a living vignette as the blues and greens failed to get through. I could expose this more and I probably will when I print it, but your computer has a backlight.

    Now available as a Displate .

    Selected for EarthDay Explore on Flickr. 30th April 2026

    High quality magnetic metal photos you can fix to a wall without damaging it. They look great too.

  • For Kitchen Confidential

    For Kitchen Confidential

    You wanted a print. I am based in Australia and print locally.

    A4 archival pigment print, made to order.
    Printed on cotton rag paper.
    Signed by the photographer

    $90.00 inclusive GST.

    Postage and packaging will be at cost.

    Taken late at night after rain, this image captures a quiet moment behind the scenes of Melbourne Australia. A kitchen hand steps outside for a brief pause — not the end of a shift, just a breath in the middle of it. The wet pavement, the bins, the passing foot traffic all matter; they place the moment in time rather than isolating it.

    When shared with the Kitchen Confidential community, the response was immediate and personal. Many recognized the scene not as a photograph, but as their own experience — a familiar pause between tickets, between pressure and return.

    This work isn’t about drama or grit for its own sake. It’s about the shared, often unseen moments that hold working lives together.

  • Tulip Restaurant | Geelong

    Tulip Restaurant | Geelong

    I just grab my camera when I go out for dinner. No flash or lighting. We were there early and there was some light left in the sky as the first course came out. I managed to take a couple of shots before the light faded completely.

    Tulip

    Tulip restaurant photo of first course of the chefs menu.
  • Just a little bit Soviet

    Just a little bit Soviet

    Geelong is undergoing a revival but there are still remnants of an earlier time.

  • Windy Day on the way to Lara | Winter Change

    Windy Day on the way to Lara | Winter Change

    Dark skys, open field, grasslands, single tree and cyclist on horizon

    Leica CL
    Summicron 23mm
    F2.8
    1/160th Second
    ISO 100

    Hit Explore on Flickr Today. Its always nice. I never know which photos the spicy algorithm will select from the millions uploaded for the top 500 of the day.

    Winter change. Spiked grass. Soaking rain. A cyclist, a tree, a shelter.

    The cold doesn’t shout here—it settles. You either stand in it or you don’t get the shot.

  • View of Melbourne from Altona

    View of Melbourne from Altona

    I was passing though Altona (as you do) and it was low tide allowing me to see around the corner to the city. You will notice a red sign. In the olden days ( last year) I would have edited this out, but it’s important that my photos show reality and not some AI fever dream.

    Original image on Flickr.

    Melbourne from the rocks
  • Waiting for planes

    Waiting for planes

    Launceston Airport lounge, ,waiting for planes, gorgeous light