SUNSET

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SILVER SUN

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WINTER SUN

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YARRA SUNRISE

Crack of a Winter dawn and the young rowers of the University Rowing clubs get ready to race in the icy water. Ah, youth! I'm content to photograph them wrapped in my warm coat and gloves.

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BUSHFIRE SUNSET

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MOONEE PONDS

Moonee Ponds is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Moonee Valley. At the 2024 Census, Moonee Ponds had a population of 16,400. Moonee Ponds is home to Queens Park and the Moonee Valley Racecourse.

Puckle Street is the main shopping street and there are many shops and cafes along its length. At its eastern end is Moonee Ponds Junction and at its western end is Moonee Ponds train station. It is a lively and colourful, old fashioned strip shopping centre.

New development with residential towers has changed the character of this suburb and further building works will  increase its population and put further stress in its infrastructure.

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AFTERNOON SUN

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SPRING EQUINOX

The Southern Hemisphere's spring equinox, also known as the September equinox or vernal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere, marks the start of spring for locations south of the equator. It occurs on or around September 22 or 23 each year, when the Sun is directly above Earth's equator and both hemispheres receive equal amounts of sunlight - hence on that day, there are 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of nighttime.

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SPRING IS WAITING...

 ...to pounce! The sun was quite warm today in Melbourne and there were lots of Spring flowers about!

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MORNING SUN

The Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Kew.

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SKIES ASSORTED

A mosaic created with many a sky I've observed over a six-month period around the suburbs of Melbourne.

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GOLDEN EGG

The reflection of the rising sun on a duck pond.

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PAINTED SKY

The sky has always been a source of inspiration for artists and here is one of my paintings inspired by a sunset in the City. You can find more of my paintings in my Instagram account: @jammysevenk

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SUNSET SILHOUETTES

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WINTER SUNSHINE

A lovely sunny, warm day in Melbourne today, a presage of coming Spring. Many people took to the parks, outdoor locales and open-air venues to make the most of the sunshine.

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WAITING 2

The bare plane tree branches are touched by the setting sun. A reminder that Spring is not too far away,

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LONE DUCK

Sunrise on a wintry Melbourne morning at the Darebin Parklands. Even the duck thought the water was too cold for swimming in!

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SUN-SHADE

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AUTUMN

Autumn arriving, waiting for the Equinox on the 20th of March!

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BUSHFIRE SKY

It is bushfire season in Southeastern Australia and yesterday, Thursday 22nd of February, the temperature maximum in Melbourne approached 40˚C. In the Northwest of the state, the temperatures were higher. In Beaufort, a small town near Ballarat, a bushfire started and in a day had burnt 5000 hectares (50 km2) of bushland, with homes and farms destroyed. Today, 10,000 hectares had been burnt and the fire is still burning.

The sky in Melbourne yesterday afternoon was brownish red with a red sun on account of the smoke high in the atmosphere. Fortunately a cool change came through with some rain and things went back to normal in the City. However, while it lasted, the unearthly, apocalyptic light and the red sun was quite frightening. Our climate is changing, our deforestation progresses at an alarming rate and such horrific and catastrophic events are now becoming more and more common and severe.

About 1000 firefighters and dozens of aircraft are still battling (Friday night) an uncontrolled bushfire burning around the Pyrenees Ranges in regional Victoria to Ballarat’s west. The towns of Elmhurst and Amphitheatre on the Pyrenees Highway remain under threat as winds continue to push the fire north-east. It is heart-breaking that farming communities have to evacuate farms and properties, leaving their livestock behind, with no guarantee they will have a home and property to come back to. Even sadder that some of these small farmers have no insurance...

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