Tag: street photo

It was late, it was wet, and the usual noise of the west had finally gone quiet.

We were walking back from a bowl of pho, and as we hit the street, the stillness of the night completely caught me. The busy road was empty, and the rain had turned the asphalt dark and faintly reflective . The light splashing across the wet tram tracks—this intense, warm glow cutting through the dark, balanced by a sharp red door in the distance and the cold blue of the lights on the wall, then the yellow pouring out of cafe window. The people are still.

I was shooting wide open at f/1.2 on a manual $100 TTartisan lens, dragging the shutter down to 1/30th of a second just to hold onto those bleeding colors.

I wanted the dark. I wanted to capture the exact weight of that late-night silence and the way the light hit the wet steel.

It ended up being on Flickr Explore . But to my eye, it’s just the memory of a quiet walk home in Footscray.